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and Central Asia Regions: Experiences and Way Forward’” (unpublished document).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.
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