A Study of Statelessness in South Sudan - 2017 · · · Identify good practices with regard to the issuance of nationality certificates, and facilitate a study visit of DNPI officials and CSOs to the selected countries in the African region; Within available resources, provide logistical support to the DNPI in sending mobile teams to remote communities at risk of statelessness to receive and process applications for nationality certificates; Assist particularly vulnerable persons at risk of statelessness, including cross-border and nomadic populations, minorities, returned migrants, returning vulnerable refugees as well as internally displaced persons in South Sudan, in their nationality application procedures through financial, logistic or legal assistance and advice; · · · Support community health workers and medical institutions to provide standardised birth notifications pending the approval of the Civil Registration Law and the implementation of formal birth registration by legally competent authorities; Develop cooperation with and the capacity of CSOs to monitor processing nationality applications in South Sudan by authorities, facilitate fair practices and identify persons at risk of statelessness in order to provide them with necessary legal counselling and assistance to access nationality documentation. Facilitate inter-agency cooperation between governmental institutions, CSOs, UN, donors and other concerned parties on issues related to granting nationality and preventing statelessness in South Sudan. © UNHCR / Rocco Nuri A South Sudanese woman in Wau after receiving her South Sudanese identity card with support from UNHCR. 9

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