Targeted actions of the 28 priority operations In the final two years of the Campaign, UNHCR’s priority operations are focusing efforts to achieve progress on the below Actions of the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness. To ensure a coherent approach to addressing statelessness and encourage ongoing action, UNHCR is working with States to develop National Action Plans to End Statelessness where they do not yet exist and support the implementation of existing ones. UNHCR is also supporting the creation and strengthening of national and regional civil society organization networks to foster the engagement of stateless activists and civil society. Action 1: Resolve existing major situations of statelessness Most of the major statelessness situations involve in-situ stateless populations, people who are born in and have links with the country in which they live without a real connection to another country. Often these populations have been stateless for generations. The only solution to their plight is usually the grant or confirmation of nationality by the country of residence. Implementing this action typically involves changes to legislation or government policy, as well as one-off measures to recognize identified groups of stateless people as nationals. 6 Examples of relevant targeted actions • • In the Philippines UNHCR is supporting efforts to confirm nationality of people of Indonesian and Japanese descent who have lived in the Philippines for generations. UNHCR is supporting the government of Uzbekistan to grant nationality to recognized stateless people following the adoption of a progressive nationality law in 2020 and further amendments in 2021. UNHCR > #IBELONG CAMPAIGN TO END STATELESSNESS: ACCELERATING ACTION IN THE FINAL TWO YEARS OF THE CAMPAIGN