EVALUATION OF UNHCR-LED INITIATIVES TO END STATELESSNESS – FINAL REPORT – VOLUME I Recommended actions 7 UNHCR’s shift to multi-year planning and budgeting, with tools for conducting preparatory context analysis, multi-stakeholder consultations, and development of theories of change, can be beneficial to statelessness work, allowing for more holistic planning, more realistic target setting, and better links with other actors. These ongoing changes seem to have progressed without much consideration of statelessness. To take advantage of these developments a rapid review should be conducted to determine whether there are opportunities to better integrate consideration of statelessness in the new Situational Analysis process in the RBM system. Additional augmenting guidance may be necessary to help more fully explain ways of ensuring new systems keep statelessness considerations incorporated at every step, including guidance on how to select optional indicators or tailor country specific indicators that help record UNHCR contributions to different GAP actions. with support from Statelessness Section, Regional Bureau Strategic Planning Pillars, and multi-year planning Operations Integrate consideration of statelessness in broader development and human rights initiatives and mechanisms to address the broader fundamental discriminatory and exclusionary drivers of statelessness and to strengthen national systems for better collecting data on stateless people. AHC-P with the Statelessness DIP Leaving no one behind is the key premise of Agenda 2030 and this is fundamentally tied to the plight of stateless persons. Resident Coordinators could play an important role in facilitating system-wide action on statelessness at country level and in marshalling the capabilities of various UNCT members. They could also help advocate with governments on sensitive issues so UNHCR is not bearing all the possible risks of advocacy. UNHCR should more clearly identify and mainstream statelessness into efforts to strengthen its work on the humanitarian – development – peace nexus and expand its efforts to communicate the links between statelessness and broader development goals – particularly in terms of addressing the political, social, economic and cultural drivers of statelessness. UNSDCF development processes and documents are one key place to do this. UNHCR should also formally incorporate statelessness into its global partnership with the World Bank. Guidance on how to best estimate the number of stateless persons, those of undetermined nationality, and those at-risk of statelessness should should be updated to incorporate the International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS) being developed by the Expert Group on Refugee and IDP Statistics (EGRIS) once available, to ensure UNHCR and partners appropriately take these populations into account. Other UN organizations are involved in multiple systems strengthening efforts related to GAP actions and may be better placed to influence and support governance, including initiatives that could contribute to better data on statelessness. This requires coordination, but would pay dividends in terms of coherence and efficiency. Opportunities for better mainstreaming statelessness in other areas of UNHCR’s protection work that deal with social cohesion, inclusion and social protection should also be explored. 56 Responsible with DRS and GDS supported by Regional Bureau Development and DIMA Officers UNHCR / May, 2021