Aime, a Congolese refugee child in Mauritania, receiving his birth certificate. © UNHCR From April to May, UNHCR supported the Government of Burkina Faso in holding mobile court hearings which issued 22,000 birth certificates to persons at risk of statelessness, with a focus on areas hosting forcibly displaced populations. In June, UNHCR started supporting the Government in issuing 34,000 birth certificates to populations at risk of statelessness in the central-eastern and central-southern regions. In May, UNHCR handed over equipment to the Ministry of Home Affairs to support birth registration in border regions. In line with Action 10, Improve quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations, the Kenyan government, UNHCR and partner organizations started preparations for the upcoming 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census with trainings for enumerators and sensitization campaigns. The census is expected to improve the identification of stateless persons in Kenya. Similarly, in Mali, the National Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) organized a workshop to present the questionnaire for the upcoming census to relevant stakeholders. UNHCR is currently working with INSTAT to include questions on nationality and statelessness. Myanmar is advancing a new Child Rights Bill which is expected to include language guaranteeing the universal right to birth registration, which the Government plans to provide free of charge. Finally, with regard to Action 10, workshops to validate studies on statelessness were conducted in a number of countries. On 10 April, a workshop was held in Abidjan to validate the country-wide statelessness mapping report for Côte d’Ivoire. The report is expected to be published after formal endorsement at the ministerial level. On 30 April, UNHCR and the Ministry of Home Affairs of Zambia organized a workshop validating a study on statelessness and issues relating to nationality in Zambia. On 26 June, the qualitative study on risks of statelessness in Mali was validated during a workshop in Bamako organized by UNHCR. With respect to Action 8, Issue nationality documentation to those with entitlement to it, UNHCR supported the governments of the Philippines and Indonesia in recording close to 3,000 persons of Indonesian descent in Davao City and General Santos City in the Philippines, whose relatives are qualified to apply for a special non-immigrant visa. The recording exercise follows the Department of Justice Circular No. 26 Series of 2018 which granted Special Non-Immigrant Visas to registered Indonesian nationals. The Circular aims to protect their basic rights. 9