EVALUATION OF UNHCR-LED INITIATIVES TO END STATELESSNESS – FINAL REPORT – VOLUME I
STORYLINE: INTERNAL EVENTS THAT SHAPED UNHCR AND PARTNER EFFORTS TO PREVENT AND ERADICATE STATELESSNESS
CRITICAL
MOMENTS
2001 – Evaluation
notes increasing
demand for
statelessness
services, calls for
dedicated HQ unit
2004 - Staffing
strengthened; focus
on internal awareness
& understanding
2006 - HC
Guterres call for
more operational
support
2006 - ExCom
decision to
report data on
persons of
undetermined
nationality
2009 Inspector
General's
Report notes
limited staff
knowledge of
statelessness
mandate
2001-2007
Creating political momentum
2010 – Pillar planning/
budgeting introduced
2010 - Regional
Statelessness Officers
positions & Surge
subroster
2015- Member
States establish
"Friends of the
Campaign”
2012 – Self-study elearning module in GLC
2007
Refugee magazine
dedicated issue on
statelessness
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2016 – Guidance and
training for
programming
2018 - Inter-Agency Working
Group on Statelessness &
system-wide strategy
Building operational capacity &
international commitment
Supporting efforts to implement the GAP
and cultivating coalitions
Sustaining momentum in an evolving
institutional context
Expenditures Stable
Median annual $32.5m
Expenditures : 15% rise
Median annual $38.7m
2014 1st Global End of 2014
2011
Forum on
Statelessness
Ministerial
Section
Intergovernmental Statelessness
created
Event
2014
#IBelong
Campaign
launch
1954: 63 States
1961: 34 States
2018- Special Advisor
on Statelessness
appointed
2019 - Expert Group
on Statelessness
Statistics established
2018-2019
Brazil Declaration
& Plan of Action
(31 LAC countries
and territories)
1954: 55 States
1961: 26 States
2016- UNHCR-UNICEF
Coalition on Every Child’s
Right to a Nationality
2015-2017
Regional
instruments
Conventions
2018 - Revitalized
#Ibelong Campaign
2008-2014
Expenditures : Tripled
$12m to $35.3m
MILESTONES
2016- Global Strategic
Implementation Plan (GSIP)
introduced
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2015
I am HereI Belong
Report
2016
2017
Special
Thematic reports on :
Appeal
- Minorities
for
- Childhood
Statelessness - Gender Discrimination
Abidjan
Declaration &
Banjul Plan of
Action
(ECOWAS)
1954: 85 States
1961: 63 States
Brazzaville
Declaration &
Plan of Action
(ICGLR}
2019
- High Level Segment &
Nansen Refugee Award
- Global Refugee Forum
Commission on the Promotion &
Protection of the Rights of Women &
Children Consultation (ASEAN)
League of Arab States (LAS) Declaration
N’Djamena Initiative (CEMAC)
1954: 90 States
1961: 70 States
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1954: 95 States
1961: 74 States