SDG 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development. ƉƉ Target 17.18: By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts. ĵĵ Global Indicator 17.18.1: Proportion of sustainable development indicators produced at the national level with full disaggregation when relevant to the target, in accordance with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics. SDG 17 contains key enablers for action across the entire SDG framework and focuses on implementation of the SDGs through partnerships and engagement with a range of stakeholders, including civil society, donor States and organisations and the private sector. Data availability represents a critical tool for sustainable development at the national, regional and global levels. As such, Target 17.18 will contribute to the successful implementation and monitoring of all the other SDGs, including those most relevant to addressing statelessness. Target 17.18 provides an opportunity to advocate for the improvement of statistical data on stateless populations in developing countries, as stateless people are frequently ignored by authorities and may remain uncounted in national administrative registries, databases and population censuses. For example, Target 17.18 could be used to promote improvements to civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems to include stateless persons and those of undetermined nationality. Universal civil registration and the vital statistics generated from civil registration and disaggregated by nationality status will help to achieve a number of SDGs and related Targets and to measure the extent to which stateless persons and those of undetermined nationality are also benefitting from planned improvements. In countries seeking to implement SDGs and related Targets and Global Indicators that are relevant to addressing statelessness (see above), pointing to Global Indicator 17.18.1 may also help encourage governments to disaggregate data on the basis of nationality status, so that stateless persons and those of undetermined nationality are included in the process of monitoring progress against particular Targets. Mapping the SDGs against UNHCR’s statelessness mandate and the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness in 10 Years UNHCR’s statelessness mandate comprises 4 key elements: • To work with governments to identify stateless populations and populations with undetermined nationality; • To prevent the occurrence of statelessness; • To reduce statelessness, particularly in protracted statelessness situations; and • To work with States and partners to protect and assist stateless persons. In November 2014, UNHCR launched the #IBelong Campaign to End Statelessness within 10 years (#IBelong Campaign).8 The framework to achieve the objectives of the #IBelong Campaign is set out in a Global Action Plan,9 which establishes 10 practical Actions to be undertaken by States with the assistance of UNHCR and other stakeholders. 8 See http://www.unhcr.org/ibelong/ 9 UNHCR, Global Action Plan to End Statelessness: 2014 – 2024, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/545b47d64.html THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND ADDRESSING STATELESSNESS 5