The role of the Commission, as its rules make clear, is also crucial to supporting state compliance with its decisions. To that end, in addition to engaging government at the national level, it is important to note that litigants and civil society were in a position to provide information to the ACHPR and urge it on the measures it needed to undertake in order to support implementation. During the Commission’s promotional visit to Cote d’Ivoire in 2016, for instance, commissioners met with civil society groups, gathered information, and raised issues relation to the decision in meetings with government officials. On that basis it was important that, during the Commission’s 2016 session, commissioners could then seek answers from the government delegation on what needed to be done to ensure compliance with the decision. A coordinated feedback loop between national level-advocacy and regionally focused advocacy was therefore critical. Constructive Dialogue among Stakeholders Constructive dialogue among various stakeholders is crucial to ensuring compliance. In this case, such dialogue brought various actors including the government, the ACHPR, affected communities, litigants and civil society to discuss the importance of the decision, the challenges the country faced, and opportunities for ensuring implementation. During the April 2016 roundtable dialogue, stakeholders were able to hold a very honest discussion on how to work together to ensure implementation of the decision. Dialogues like this can be rare but are important to foster collaboration among the parties and, as noted, have involvement from the ACHPR itself. That regional-level dialogue was later replicated at the national level when the country’s national human rights commission hosted a daylong conference to discuss compliance with the ACHPR decision. The conference provided another opportunity for the human rights commission, government officials and agencies, international organizations, victims, and civil society to discuss implementation of the decision. This was important as it not only provided a forum for local actors to discuss implementation of the decision, but also underscored the crucial role for national human rights commissions in monitoring compliance and in working with various actors (including the government’s own focal point on statelessness) to help play a coordinating role for implementation. Five years after the Commission’s decision, it is noteworthy that Cote d’Ivoire has undertaken significant reforms to address its statelessness problem. These include: 1. Conducting a referendum and amending its constitution to eliminate its citizenship discrimination provisions (articles 35 and 65), as recommended by the ACHPR. 2. Becoming a party to the 1954 UN Convention on Stateless Persons as well as the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and ratifying the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, which contains provisions relating to children’s right to nationality. 3. Adopting the Abidjan Declaration, which contains ambitious commitments to address and eradicate statelessness in West Africa, such as ensuring that every child acquires a nationality at birth and that all unaccompanied children (“foundlings”) are considered nationals of the state in which they are found. As required by the Abidjan Declaration, 4