VI. Advocacy and partnerships The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) generally provide important opportunities for partnerships with development actors to address the root causes of statelessness and to advocate for inclusion of stateless persons in development planning. The overarching aim of the 2030 Agenda “to reach the furthest behind first” and “leave no one behind” clearly applies to those who experience the many negative consequences of not being recognized as citizens of any country. There are also specific SDGs that will help prevent and reduce statelessness itself, provided they are implemented properly. These include SDG 5.1, which relates to the elimination of gender discrimination, and SDG 16.9, which calls upon States to provide legal identity for all, including birth registration. UNHCR is partnering with the World Bank’s Identification for Development Initiative (ID4D),122 launched in 2014, to draw attention to the importance of SDG 16.9. With respect to the attainment of gender equality, UNHCR and UN Women maintain a partnership dedicated to the removal of gender discrimination from nationality laws. At the field level in emergency and post-conflict situations, UN organizations, such as UNHCR, OHCHR, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, and UN peace-keeping missions, have been working closely together on statelessness issues in a number of contexts. The mandates and expertise of these agencies and missions often intersect with UNHCR’s specific statelessness mandate. UNHCR and OHCHR have strengthened their partnership, including by engaging with national human rights institutions and ensuring more effective use of human rights mechanisms to address statelessness. UNICEF and UNHCR have undertaken large-scale awareness-raising campaigns and civil birth registration actions for children born in situations of forced displacement.123 Together, UNHCR and UNICEF also launched a new Coalition to Ensure Every Child’s Right to a Nationality in December 2016.124 The Coalition includes a number of other international organizations and civil society groups and will focus on joint advocacy efforts and programmatic activities. In 2011, UNHCR and Plan International125 signed a co-operation agreement to strengthen their partnership as an important step in realizing the right of children to be registered at birth, their right to an identity, and the prevention of child statelessness. Plan International is also a member of the Coalition co-led by UNICEF and UNHCR. 83