Annex: Compendium of pledges delivered at the HLS Year of completion expected by the State Relevant Action of the Global Action Plan/ Thematic Focus The Government of Georgia hereby commits: The “door-to-door” campaign to identify and document stateless persons will be undertaken. 2021 10 The Government of Georgia hereby commits to work with UNHCR to raise awareness and foster common understanding about statelessness in an inclusive manner. 2021 Other (awareness raising/training) The Government of Georgia hereby commits to facilitate naturalization for stateless persons by introducing legislative amendment to the law on Citizenship of Georgia aimed at reducing the 10-year residence period required for naturalization by half. 2021 6 The Government of Georgia hereby commits: Georgia will include the stateless status applicants in the emergency outpatient and emergency inpatient care of the State universal healthcare program. 2021 6 The Government of Georgia hereby commits: Stateless status applicants will enjoy the right to State free legal aid. To this end, applicants will receive both legal counselling and representation to the administrative bodies and courts by the state funded Legal Aid Service. 2021 6 The Government of Georgia hereby commits: The fee for statelessness determination procedures will be reduced in half in order to increase accessibility of the status determination procedure. 2021 6 2019 9 The Government of Ghana hereby commits: To accede to the two Statelessness Conventions by the end of 2021. 2021 9 The Government of Ghana hereby commits: To support efforts of UNHCR and UNFPA in identifying groups at risk of Statelessness in Ghana. 2021 10 The Government of the Republic of Guinea hereby commits to develop subsidiary legal acts to implement provisions of the Civil Code, in particular for securing nationality certificates. 2022 8 The Government of the Republic of Guinea hereby commits to monitor the implementation of the National Strategy for the Reform and Modernization of Civil Registry in Guinea 2018-2022. 2022 7 The Government of the Republic of Guinea hereby commits to the adoption by 2021 of a law on the status of stateless persons and the statelessness determination procedure. 2021 6 State Pledge Georgia Germany The Government hereby commits: Germany will examine its reservations towards the Convention on Statelessness from 1961 which were made upon ratification and start a review process within our line ministries to evaluate the necessity of those reservations. Ghana Guinea U N H C R > H I G H - L E V E L S E G M E N T O N S T A T E L E S S N E S S : R E S U LT S A N D H I G H L I G H T S 59

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