© UNHCR/Rasheed Hussein Rasheed UNHCR and partners support child protection interventions for refugees. In 2024, nearly 950 child protection workers in the Kurdistan Region were trained with UNHCR’s support. • Work with legal aid providers (including paralegal aid providers) to provide tailored advice and support to forcibly displaced and stateless persons who face challenges to register the birth of their children. • Coordinate with health actors and coordination groups to support health sector to issue timely birth notifications for all births that occur in health facilities or under the supervision of health professionals. Establish common actions with health and protection actors to strengthen access to birth registration for forcibly displaced and stateless persons, and link to relevant national plans. • Link birth registration with other programmes such as education, including by ensuring that mechanisms exist to enroll children in schools who do not have birth certificates (for instance, accepting refugee registration records), and to refer these children to appropriate services for birth registration. • Integrate birth registration into the plans and activities of protection and child protection coordination groups 26 27 16 Knowledge and data • Support civil registration and statistical authorities​in improving data collection on rates of birth registration for forcibly displaced and stateless children, including through implementation of the international recommendations on statistics for stateless persons, IDPs and refugees,26 and responsible disaggregation of birth registration administrative data.27 • When implementing protection monitoring and undertaking household surveys with forcibly displaced and stateless persons, include questions on birth registration and possession of a birth certificate, and analyse data. • Where the UNHCR registration and identity management system (PRIMES/ProGres) are in place, establish mechanisms/procedures to collect data on birth registration by the national civil registration authority, and ensure that ProGres is updated accordingly. Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics, “International recommendations on refugee statistics” (Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union, 2018). https://egrisstats.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/InternationalRecommendations-on-Refugee-Statistics.pdf. Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics, “International recommendations on internally displaced persons statistics (IRIS)” (Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union, 2020). https://egrisstats.org/wp-content/ uploads/2021/12/The-International-Recommendations-on-IDP-Statistics.pdf. Expert Group on Refugee, Internally Displaced Persons and Stateless Statistics, “International recommendations on statelessness statistics (IROSS)” (Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union, 2023). https://egrisstats.org/wpcontent/uploads/International_Recommendations_on_Statelessness_Statistics_Jan_2023_final.pdf. Tarek Abou Chabake et al., “Responsible disaggregation of data on refugee and other forcibly displaced children: UNICEFUNHCR guidance note” (New York and Copenhagen, UNICEF and UNHCR, 2023). https://data.unicef.org/resources/ responsible-disaggregation-of-data-on-refugee-children/. Birth registration of forcibly displaced and stateless persons