• Coordinate efforts to carry out outreach campaigns and activities with populations of concern, and assist them in navigating state bureaucracy by facilitating access to the competent officials. To harmonize domestic laws and practices with binding international norms and standards: • Comprehensively review all relevant laws, regulations, and practices, particularly those that predate the relevant international human rights treaties, to ensure their compatibility with any international legal frameworks that apply to the country. • Adopt amendments to nationality and documentation of identity laws to address existing legal gaps, as well as to cement good practices that exist as a matter of administrative policies and are vulnerable to change. • Use regional forums to address shortcomings and share good practices in identity documentation processes. • Assess and take into account the best interests of the child as a primary consideration in all actions or decisions that concern the right to nationality or documentation of identity of a child. The right to nationality, the importance of protecting individuals from statelessness, and the right to documents of identity have gained the attention of the international community as essential human rights. Global initiatives such as the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness, led by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as well as the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals agenda, are particularly relevant platforms to address some of the issues detailed in this report. States should capitalize on the technical capacity and funding opportunities that these platforms create to incorporate concrete actions to protect the right to nationality of each child born in the Americas, as well as the means to prove that right. As this study makes clear, there remains a significant gap between the promise of jus soli citizenship and the reality on the ground in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. These three countries—and others in the region—must do more to ensure that the right to citizenship becomes a reality for all people born in the Americas. 24 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