day exercise. The IDPs were displaced from Northeast Nigeria during the Islamist insurgency and had either lost the certificates or had never registered their children’s births. The exercise supports the government’s pledge delivered at the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness to scale-up the issuance of birth registration to IDPs, refugees and returnees. In line with Action 9, Accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions, on 14 July, Togo acceded to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Togo’s accession to these two Conventions will facilitate the ongoing reform of its nationality law, with a view to eliminating discrimination and establishing gender equality in relation to nationality acquisition. Also in Nigeria, since the beginning of 2021, 20,731 birth certificates have been issued to internally displaced children and 20,000 certificates of indigeneity have been delivered to IDPs as part of UNHCR’s “access to legal documentation” project in Borno state. UNHCR worked closely with local authorities to achieve this result. On 28 June, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico and UNHCR convened a meeting to analyze the legal implications of the Government’s possible accession to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and its withdrawal of reservations to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. Experts on statelessness and nationality issues from governmental agencies, academia and civil society contributed to the deliberations. The event was held as a follow-up to Mexico’s commitments made at the 2019 Global Refugee Forum. From 13 to 19 July, UNHCR and the Office of the Commissioner for Refugees in Zambia conducted a three-day civil documentation drive in Mantapala refugee settlement, which resulted in the issuance of 504 birth notices. The information will be submitted to Lusaka Central Registration Office for the issuance of birth certificates. On Action 10, Improve quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations, on 1 September, the Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia confirmed that a census will be held in October next year, which will also collect data on naturalization and statelessness. In line with Action 7 and Action 8, Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it, from July to September, in Mozambique, the Catholic University of Mozambique assisted 5,756 displaced and host communities in Cabo Delgado to obtain birth certificates and identity documents through its mobile legal clinics. To date, 13,412 people have received legal assistance since the start of the project in June 2021. In September, in Kazakhstan, UNHCR undertook several activities to support the Bureau of National Statistics in preparing for its national census and to ensure that quality data on stateless population is collected. The activities included a three-day training for officials involved in conducting the census, the production of a video instruction for census enumerators explaining how to fill in the census questionnaire with regard to nationality and statelessness issues, and a general awarenessraising campaign to ensure that stateless people participate in the census. In line with Action 8, the Government of Mauritania has made progress on its pledges related to the issuance of documentation submitted at the 2019 High-Level Segment on Statelessness and the Global Refugee Forum. Regional authorities, together with UNHCR, the national civil registry agency and the National Commission on Human Rights have recently launched a review of the situation of 11,000 individuals in Mbera camp whose refugee status was inactivated when it was found that they had Mauritanian nationality but who regardless are experiencing difficulties in accessing civil registration as nationals. In Zimbabwe, the National Statistics Agency announced that questions on access to documentation and citizenship will be included in the 2022 census to improve data on statelessness. This is an important step as there is currently no official data on the number of people who are stateless or at risk of statelessness in the country. 8