Ferghana Valley Lawyers Without Borders, headed by Azizbek Ashurov, set up mobile legal clinics to help stateless people gain nationality and even reached remote communities on horseback. In 2019, Kyrgyzstan became the first country in the world to solve all known cases of statelessness, and Ashurov won the 2019 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. © UNHCR/Chris de Bode ACTION 10: Improve quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations DESIRED OUTCOME • • Quantitative and qualitative data on stateless populations is publicly available and accessible for all States. Data on stateless populations effectively informs and shapes policies and programs to address statelessness. Context Measuring statelessness is complicated given that stateless persons often live in precarious situations on the margins of society. Frequently, stateless persons are not only undocumented but also ignored by the authorities and uncounted in national population and administrative registries and population surveys. Most even go uncounted in population censuses. Quantitative data and qualitative analysis are essential for States to adequately respond to statelessness and to enable UNHCR to fulfil its mandate, as well as to measure 32 progress in implementing the Global Action Plan. These should include: an assessment of the scale of the situation in terms of magnitude and geographical spread; the profile of the affected population (including its demographic composition with data disaggregated by sex and age); an analysis of the causes and impacts of statelessness (including in terms of civil, political, economic, and social rights), and an overview of obstacles to and potential for solutions. Implementation of this Action will provide additional information relating to other Actions. GLOBAL ACTION PLAN TO END STATELESSNESS 2.0