VI. Advocacy and partnerships and reduce statelessness, as well as access to healthcare, education, state protection, employment and adequate housing. Moreover, for the Roma civil society participants, it was their first opportunity to network with community representatives facing similar situations in their and other regions. See OSCE/ODIHR Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues, “Summary Report. Consultation Meeting ‘The Situation of Roma and Related Groups in the South Caucasus and Central Asia Regions: Experiences and Way Forward’” (unpublished document). Statelessness as a key priority for the UN system Issues of statelessness are characterized by political and technical complexity, and relate to the mandates of several UN agencies in different ways. The 2011 Guidance Note of the Secretary-General: The United Nations and Statelessness affirms that all UN entities must increase their efforts to address statelessness system-wide. The UN should tackle both the causes and consequences of statelessness as a key priority within its broader efforts to strengthen the rule of law.119 In June 2016, a number of UN agencies and sister agencies, including OHCHR, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Development Operations Coordination Office, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, UN Women, and the World Bank, participated in a New Frontiers Dialogue on Statelessness co-chaired by UNHCR and UNICEF in New York. Participants reaffirmed the role that different agencies have to play in working to eradicate statelessness in line with the Secretary-General��s 2011 Guidance Note. The Dialogue identified areas for enhanced capacity-building of UN Country Teams to support work on statelessness, and agreed on elements for an action plan.120 Co-operation and co-ordination under the Common Country Assessment (CCA), the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF)121 and Delivering as One initiatives are relevant to these efforts as statelessness is also a development issue. These mechanisms should be utilized when addressing statelessness, particularly in the fields of non-discrimination and inclusion of stateless populations in development programmes, legal reform, and citizenship and documentation campaigns. 82

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