Nominated Working Group members from relevant Ministries, civil society sectors and UNHCR met for the first time to plan the implementation of the pilot project of the Bali Process Civil Registration Assessment Toolkit © Thailand’s Ministry of Interior On 4 March, the Committee of Justice and Human Rights of the Pan-African Parliament organized a Workshop on the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa in Midrand, South Africa. The workshop was facilitated by UNHCR and culminated in a draft resolution on statelessness, which will be submitted to the Pan-African Parliament General Assembly session in May 2019. other Bali Process Member States, including Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan and the Philippines. The working group exists of focal points from relevant ministries, civil society and UNHCR. The meeting resulted in an agreement to conduct an initial mapping of hard-to-reach populations in Thailand. In January, the Government of Turkmenistan formally endorsed a National Action Plan (NAP) to Eliminate Statelessness (2019-2024). Among other actions, the NAP foresees reform of the civil registration legislation to allow children of undocumented parents to be registered at birth. On 5 March, the Statelessness Country Technical Team (ETAP) in Burkina Faso reviewed the achievements of the Government to end statelessness during a meeting which was attended by Government officials, UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM and civil society organizations. The Minister of Justice emphasized the ongoing revision of the Code of Persons and the Family, including in relation to aspects concerning civil status and nationality, as well as the Government’s commitment to adopt a law on the status of stateless persons and adopt a statelessness determination procedure. On 1 February, UNHCR and UNICEF in the Kyrgyz Republic convened a Parliamentary Roundtable on Birth Registration and Prevention of Childhood Statelessness in Bishkek. The roundtable was organized within the framework of the UNHCR-UNICEF Coalition on Every Child’s Right to a Nationality and the country-specific joint strategy on addressing childhood statelessness. The event convened parliamentarians and experts to raise awareness of Kyrgyzstan’s legislative gaps in birth registration and discuss amendments needed to prevent childhood statelessness. It resulted in an agreement to create a working group to review the draft law on civil registry acts with the aim of amending the legislation by mid-2019. On 13 March, the Ministry of Interior of Thailand organized the first meeting of a working group that will lead the pilot project of the Bali Process Civil Registration Assessment Toolkit which targets hard-toreach populations including stateless persons, persons of undetermined nationality and undocumented persons. The pilot aims to evaluate the Toolkit and draw lessons from its implementation prior to a complete roll-out to the 6