AHMR African Human Mobilty Review - Volume 8 No 3, SEP-DEC 2022 free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes’. Achieving this target will alleviate stateless children’s challenges in accessing education and obtaining certificates of school completion. Again, SDG 4 is significant for protecting stateless persons and ensuring their access to basic rights.47 By improving their basic rights and living conditions, these SDGs may enhance the integration and inclusion of stateless (and former stateless) populations in development at all levels. This may empower large in situ groups, with longer-term initiatives toward resolving their statelessness and averting new incidents.48 Figure 3: UNHCR global actions and key SDGs/Targets relating to statelessness  Statelessness mandate Actions to end statelessness Key SDGs and Targets Reduction Action 1: Resolve existing major situations of statelessness. 1 Action 2: Ensure that no child is born stateless. 2 Prevention/Reduction Action 3: Remove gender discrimination from nationality laws. 3 SDG 5, Target 5.1; SDG 10, Target 10.c and SDG Action 4: Prevent denial, loss or deprivation of nationality on discriminatory grounds. 4 Action 5: Prevent statelessness in cases of State succession. 5 Prevention Action 6: Grant protection status to stateless migrants and facilitate their naturalization. 6 SDG10, Target 10.c and SDG16, Targets 16.9 Action 7: Ensure birth registration for the prevention of statelessness. 7 Action 8: Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it. 8 Action 9: Accede to the UN Statelessness Conventions. 9 Action 10: Improve quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations. 10 SDG 10, Target 10.3 .and SDG 16, Target 16.b Prevention/ Reduction 16, Target 16.b Prevention SDG 10, Target 10.3 and SDG 16, Target 16.b Protection/ldentication and 16.b Prevention SDG 10, Target 10.c and SDG 16, Targets 16.9 and16.b Prevention SDG 10, Target 10.c and SDG 16, Targets 16.9 and16.b Protection/Prevention/Reduction Identification SDG 17, Target 17.18 Source: UNHCR (2017) at 4. Tore, the UNHCR’s mandate of resolving (current) and averting (future) incidents of statelessness encompasses 4 key elements: identify, prevent, reduce, and protect.49 This obliges the following: to work with governments to identify stateless persons and populations with undetermined nationality; to prevent the occurrence of statelessness; to reduce statelessness, particularly in protracted situations; and to work with states and stakeholders to protect and assist stateless groups/persons. 47 48 49 Ibid. Manby op cit note 35; Sperfeldt op cit note 35. UNHCR op cit note 16. 68