7. Encourage the strengthening of civil status systems, including to make them more accessible to persons at risk of statelessness, and to ensure that every child is registered immediately at birth and that every child possesses a birth certificate; 8. Highlight the need to deepen public knowledge of the causes and consequences of statelessness, the risk factors specific to Central Africa, and the solutions to be put in place; 9. Maintain that a coordinated regional approach would be an asset for CEMAC countries in the fight against statelessness; 10. Urge States not party to adhere to the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; 11. Encourage States Parties to pursue the implementation of the relevant provisions of the aforementioned conventions and to ensure that men and women have equal rights in terms of acquisition, change and retention of nationality, as well as in transmission of nationality to their children; 12. Encourage the implementation and strengthening of legal and paralegal assistance programmes for persons who have difficulties accessing individual documentation. N’Djamena, Chad, 12 December 2018