Recommendations The following recommendations apply to many countries in the Americas. To ensure access to documentation of identity: • Ensure that birth registration policies are coordinated and implemented uniformly throughout the national territory. • Review and enact legislation in order to ensure that all children who are at risk of becoming stateless, particularly children of ethnic minority groups and children of migrants, have access to birth registration. • Invest in training and supervising of officials responsible for documentation of identity and nationality. • Provide special procedural accommodations (such as simplifying the process for late registration) to address the challenges vulnerable populations face. • Adopt realistic standards of proof of birth; when necessary, facilitate access to necessary documentation for birth registration through diplomatic cooperation. • Grant facilitated access to necessary documentation for birth registration through diplomatic cooperation, in which a failure of response by another state may suffice as means of proof. • Implement or increase mobile registration in remote areas. • Ease the process for late birth registrations by accepting the same level of evidence as used for on-time registration. • Interpret all relevant rules and procedures for registration in accordance with the principle of best interests of the child. • Develop effective communication strategies and awareness-raising campaigns specially tailored to the information needs of at-risk populations. To address the data gap: • Register data comprehensively, including by gender, ethnicity, and region of origin. • Increase technical capacity for data gathering, processing, and analysis within the entities responsible for documentation of identity and nationality. • Carry out targeted mapping studies to identify populations that are at risk of statelessness due to barriers in registration and access to other documentation of identity processes. 22 E X E C U T I V E S U M M A R Y A N D R E C O M M E N D AT I O N S