Recommendations 53. Based on the above information, the co-submitting organisations urge reviewing States to make the following recommendations to Tanzania: I. Develop and implement an efficient statistical framework for stateless persons and a dedicated statelessness determination procedure to help map and identify stateless people in the country. II. Ensure that all children born in Tanzania are registered at birth by providing accessible and free birth registration. III. Amend the nationality law to incorporate a provision for all otherwise stateless children born on the territory to acquire Tanzanian citizenship. IV. Amend the nationality law to include provisions on the right to acquire Tanzanian nationality for all foundlings within Tanzania. V. Amend the nationality law on provisions that discriminate on the basis of gender to ensure women and men enjoy equal rights to confer nationality to spouses and to children when the parent is a citizen by descent. VI. Amend the nationality law to ensure that Tanzanian men are also able to revert to Tanzanian citizenship in the event of divorce from a foreign spouse and loss of foreign nationality. VII. Adhere to the provisions of the Tanzania Citizenship Act on jus soli and jus sanguinis, and not rely on common practice. VIII. Consider providing a waiver of the reduced naturalisation application fee to communities at risk of becoming stateless. IX. Amend the nationality law to ensure that Tanzanians who, for various reasons, acquire foreign citizenship, are able to revert to Tanzanian citizenship in the event they lose the foreign nationality. X. Expedite the immediate naturalisation of the remaining Somali Bantus; the children of the 1983 naturalised Rwandese refugees; and the pending 1972 Burundian refugees. XI. Accede to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. 12

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