A UNHCR staff member visits a family in Montenegro to facilitate late birth registration. © UNHCR people, as well as 935 birth certificates to children in three regions facing conflicts, including to 73 orphans who were internally displaced. Also with respect to Action 7, the Government of Montenegro started to implement a new procedure in January to register the birth of children abandoned by their mothers or whose mothers lack identity documents. Under this joint procedure of the Ministry of Labor and Social Care and the Ministry of Interior, social workers at municipal centers are tasked to undertake visits as soon as they are informed of a non-registered child with the purpose of registering the child’s birth. This development is in line with Montenegro’s pledge submitted at the High-Level Segment on Statelessness to intensify collaboration on birth registration among relevant line Ministries. In line with Action 8, Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it, from December 2019 to March, the Government of Burkina Faso issued 40,000 identification documents to displaced populations and host communities in the center-north and south-west regions with the support of UNHCR. These efforts were aimed at addressing risks of statelessness in the context of the ongoing security and humanitarian crisis facing Burkina Faso and the entire Sahel region. Regarding Action 7, in Niger, UNHCR and the telecom company Orange partnered to send sensitization text messages on statelessness and the importance of birth registration in six local languages, reaching a total of 138,983 persons across the country and targeting areas where risks of statelessness are most prevalent. In relation to Action 9, Accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions, on 3 January, North Macedonia acceded to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, as it pledged to do at the High-Level Segment on Statelessness. In line with Action 10, Improve quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations, the European Network on Statelessness published six new country chapters on as part of its Statelessness Index: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, and Spain. The Index contains comparative data on 24 European countries. In line with both Action 7 and Action 8, Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it, with support and encouragement from UNHCR, the Government of Cameroon issued nationality certificates to 17 IDPs from the north-west region where violence has displaced hundreds of thousands of 6