Table 6 – GAP achievements and assessment of progress against targets (from launch of campaign to end of 2019)
Source for achievements: UNHCR Statelessness Section, “Summary achievements – Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2014-2024”, Update 2 January 2020
GAP Action
Action 1: Resolve existing major
situations of statelessness.
Achievements by 2020
Kyrgyzstan has become the first country to resolve all known cases of statelessness
on its territory. Partial achievements in: Côte d’Ivoire, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, the
Russian Federation, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Vietnam.
Assessment of progress
Underachieving signficantly on both 2017 and 2020
milestones (10% achievement of 2017 milestone)
Action 2: Ensure that no child is
born stateless.
No States have included a provision in nationality law to grant nationality to children
of unknown origin found in their territory (foundlings).
Unclear how to measure since baselines and targets
are in % but 2020 achievements are in integers.
7 States have included provisions in their nationality law to grant nationality to
children born in their territory who would otherwise be stateless (Armenia, Cuba,
Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Tajikistan).
Unclear how to measure since baselines and targets
are in % but 2020 achievements are in integers.
2 States have included provisions in their nationality law to grant nationality to
children born to nationals abroad who would otherwise be stateless (Cuba,
Paraguay).
2 States have reformed their nationality laws allowing women to confer nationality to
Unclear how to measure since baselines and targets
are in % but 2020 achievements are in integers.
Action 3: Remove gender
discrimination from nationality laws. their children on an equal basis with men. 2 States have withdrawn reservations to
CEDAW Art. 9(2) (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Iraq).
Underachieving significantly on both 2017 and 2020
milestones (20% achievement of 2017 milestone for
reformation of laws to pass on nationality to children).
1 State has introduced reforms to their nationality laws to grant women and men an
equal ability to confer nationality on spouses (Lesotho). 1 State has withdrawn
reservations to CEDAW Art. 9(1).
Underachieving significantly on both 2017 and 2020
milestones ( 5% achievement of reformation of
nationality laws to confer nationality to spouse)
Action 4: Prevent denial, loss or
deprivation of nationality on
discriminatory grounds.
Action 5: Prevent statelessness in
cases of State succession.
No States have reformed their nationality laws to remove provisions which permit
denial, loss or deprivation of nationality on discriminatory grounds.
No progress on baseline for this GAP action
Not tracked
Progress is not being tracked for this Action
Action 6: Grant protection status
to stateless migrants and facilitate
their naturalization.
11 States have established statelessness determination procedures . 2 States have
improved their statelessness determination procedure. 9 States have introduced
procedures for facilitated naturalization for stateless migrants.
Partial achievement of 2017 milestone (45% introduced
procedures for naturalization; 55% established SDPs)
Action 7: Ensure birth registration
for the prevention of
statelessness.
Not tracked
Progress is not being tracked for this Action - however,
it is tracked as an indicator in the RBM system so there
would be a potential way to track it
Action 8: Issue nationality
documentation to those with
entitlement to it.
1 State has issued nationality documentation to all those with entitlement to it
(Kyrgyzstan).
Partial achievements in 11 States
Unclear how to measure since baselines and targets
are in % but 2020 achievements are in integers.
Action 9: Accede to the UN
Statelessness Conventions.
13 States have acceded to the 1954 Convention since the campaign launch for a
total of 96 States.
Underachieving on both 2017 and 2020 milestones
(80% of 2020 target achieved for 1954 Convention)
21 States have acceded to the 1961 Convention since the campaign launch for a
total of 76 States.
Quantitative population data on stateless populations is publicly available for 3 more
States.
Underachieving on both 2017 and 2020 milestones
(74% of 2020 target achieved for 1961 Convention)
Underachieving signficiantly on both 2017 and 2020
milestones for number of States where quantative data
is available (12% achievement of 2017 target).
Qualitative studies on stateless populations have been conducted for 25 States.
2017 target for qualitative data has been achieved.
Action 10: Improve quantitative
and qualitative data on stateless
populations.
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