© UNHCR/Apipar Norapoompipat Other notable achievements: • • • • • • • The Ngäbe-Buglé ethnic group migrates between Costa Rica and Panama to work in banana, plantain and coffee plantations on Costa Rican soil. As such, births aren’t regularly registered, which places the group at risk of statelessness in this context. From 2015 to 2018, both countries worked with UNHCR to implement a joint “Chiriticos” project to facilitate access to late birth registration, verification of nationality and issuance of identity documentation in the communities where the Ngäbe-Buglé population lives and works. Since 2021, the Government of Mozambique has conducted ongoing mobile registration initiatives to reach adults and children in Cabo Delgado and Zambézia provinces who are without documentation, including those who lost identity and other important documents when they were forcibly displaced by violence. Burkina Faso has issued civil registration and nationality documentation to more than 516,000 vulnerable persons at risk of statelessness – including refugees, internally displaced people and host communities – since 2019. The Government of Liberia has established a National Identification Registry and service centers throughout the country to provide civil documentation – including birth, marriage and death certificates – to refugees born in Liberia, as well as other vulnerable groups at risk of statelessness. In 2024, Montenegro and Kosovo4 successfully concluded a decade-long technical cooperation to address the lack of documents among more than 1,370 people living in Montenegro, who had fled conflict in the late1990s, receiving identity documents for the first time in nearly 20 years. Mobile teams gathered biometric data from affected people and delivered civil registration documents necessary for regularizing their legal status, marking a significant milestone in resolving issues related to both long-term displacement and statelessness. The Government of Mauritania implemented an enrollment exercise between July 2023 and February 2024, through which more than 600,000 people – including populations at risk of statelessness – were registered through simplified and expedited procedures. Good practices employed for the exercise include reduced evidentiary requirements and mobile missions to isolated locations. Amendments to North Macedonia’s Law on Citizenship in 2021 made it possible for former Yugoslav citizens residing in the country at the time of independence, to acquire Macedonian nationality. As a result of this and other related amendments, 608 out of 786 known persons at risk of statelessness in North Macedonia have had their nationality confirmed. All references to Kosovo should be understood in full compliance with Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo. 4 #IBELONG 37