UNHCR Representative in Greece Philippe Leclerc (left), UNHCR Associate Protection Officer Petros Mastakas (left), Interior Minister Alexis Charitsis (right) and Special Secretary for Citizenship Lampros Blatsiotis (right) sign the Memorandum of Cooperation © Ministry of Interior Greece/Y. Heliotis On 21 January, the Ministry of Interior of Greece and UNHCR signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on nationality acquisition and prevention of statelessness. The MoC foresees, inter alia, the support of two experts to assist with the collection and processing of reliable statistics on Greek nationality acquisition, the design and implementation of capacity-building activities for civil servants and the enhancement of quality assurance mechanisms in the Greek nationality acquisition procedures. On 17 and 18 January, the Kenya Human Rights Commission convened a workshop on digital identity and citizenship with representatives from the Government of Kenya and from stateless communities in Naivasha, Kenya. The workshop resulted in the creation of a government working group on statelessness to promote access to birth registration and nationality for the remaining stateless communities in Kenya. On 9 February, UHNCR and the National School of Administration (ENA) convened a conference in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, on “Statelessness, Nationality, and the Right of Asylum”. The conference was attended by more than 100 participants and resulted in a commitment on the part of ENA to integrate a module on addressing statelessness in its academic curriculum. On 21 March, the Issue-Based Coalition on Large Movement of People, Displacement and Resilience organized a side-event “Leaving no one behind: Addressing statelessness and enhancing the resilience of vulnerable groups through the Sustainable Development Goals” at the UNECE Regional Forum on Sustainable Development. The event raised awareness with key representatives from States in Europe and Central Asia of the phenomenon of statelessness in the context of the 2030 Agenda. 5