SDG 17, Target 17.18: (Relevant if your country office is in a developing country11 seeking to implement SDGs and related Targets and Indicators that are relevant to addressing statelessness or where stateless persons or those of undetermined nationality remain uncounted in national administrative registries, databases and population censuses. This SDG and Target are particularly relevant where the size or concentration of the population of concern is likely to be statistically significant). • Advocate for the implementation of SDG 17, Target 17.18 and selection of appropriate Indicators relating to improving the availability of statistical data on stateless persons, including through disaggregation of data by nationality status. • Engage with national and regional initiatives aimed at improving CRVS systems through the inclusion of stateless persons and those of undetermined nationality, and promote the improvement of CRVS systems as an important development priority in national development plans. • Advocate with States on the benefits of gathering national data on stateless persons for purposes of registration, documentation, delivery of public services, social inclusion, maintenance of law and order and comprehensive development planning. • Advocate for the inclusion of questions related to nationality status in any upcoming population and housing censuses. • Advocate with government authorities for the improvement of national statistical data on stateless populations, and encourage donor states, international financial institutions and the private sector to provide additional capacity-building and financial support to this end. • Promote the inclusion of stateless persons and those of undetermined nationality in the development of relevant standards and capacity building initiatives, including with the UN Statistics Commission, the UN Statistics Division and in statistical bodies of the regional Economic and Social Commissions. 11 See http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries Resources ww UN General Assembly, Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 21 October 2015, para. 23. Available at: http://goo.gl/8utYyz ww UNHCR, Global Action Plan to End Statelessness: 2014 – 2024, available at: http://goo.gl/hvElnK ww Handbook on Protection of Stateless Persons, 30 June 2014, available at: http://goo.gl/C9Eyn3 ww UN Development Group, Mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Reference Guide to UNCTs, February 2016. Available at: https://goo.gl/7kzAJc ww Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2017, 8 March 2017, available at: https://goo.gl/AEKMF3