Assessment Report I NRC KEY RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Humanitarian agencies should ensure that a lack of civil documentation does not prevent access to humanitarian aid. More information should be sought on current practices relating to the reported requirement of identification papers by humanitarian agencies. 2. Humanitarian agencies should strengthen activities that promote tenure security for IDPs and protection against forced evictions. Key messaging to those at risk of displacement should reiterate the importance of safeguarding documentation. 3. Programmes aimed at providing information and assistance on safeguarding, updating or replacing documents should pay particular attention to women’s disproportionate lack of civil and HLP-related documentation. 4. Protection and education actors should consider paying particular attention to the access to education for students without national ID cards, since proof of identification is a prerequisite for the completion of school grades 9 and 12. 5. Health and protection actors should consider the value of birth notifications, which can be issued by medical staff. These do not change the importance of birth certification, but they may support later applications for birth certificates and/or the registration of children in family booklets. NRC Assessment Report I 5