Registering and Documenting Each Syrian Refugee Child services in the country. Counselling on these issues is also available through UNHCR’s telephone information line. Turkey’s Provincial Directorates of Migration Management, together with UNHCR and its partners, have increased the dissemination of information on the birth registration procedures targeting Syrian families through information leaflets, counselling sessions and direct referrals to the civil registration offices following births. At the regional level, UNHCR is catalysing greater civil society engagement through a number of initiatives. In November 2015, a diverse array of civil society organizations, attorneys, academics and other experts from across the MENA region assembled in Beirut, Lebanon, to examine the issue of statelessness in the region. They concluded this event by agreeing to form a regional Civil Society Network on Statelessness, and adopted a platform of objectives and principles in support of their ongoing collaboration. In 2016, UNHCR has initiated a series of sub-regional consultations to identify civil society participants, consultation structures and strategies in support of developing a Regional Civil Society Network on Protection and Displacement, which has a thematic focus on statelessness. 2015, whereas medical partners reported that all refugee women residing in camps gave birth in hospital during the year. In addition, UNHCR’s legal aid partners assign attorneys to be present at hospitals and maternal health centres to advise pregnant women and new mothers on the procedure for obtaining both medical birth notifications and birth certificates, and the need to do so within established deadlines. Syrian refugees in Egypt have access to public primary health care services, including maternal health services, on the basis of a 2012 ministerial decree. Under this framework, Syrian refugee women receive prenatal care in Egypt’s public health facilities, and UNHCR provides additional support to ensure all pregnant refugee women can safely deliver in hospital, including in the case of high risk pregnancies. Syrian nationals in Turkey registered by the government as Temporary Protection beneficiaries enjoy free access to all forms of maternal health services, including prenatal, delivery and post-natal care, as well as prescription medication. With the issue of transportation identified as a challenge for some refugees, the government has instituted transportation assistance to bring pregnant who reside in camps to hospitals to ensure safe deliveries and the issuance of medical birth notifications. Ensuring Access to Quality Maternal Health Services UNHCR and 3RP partners including the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have undertaken efforts to ensure Syrian refugee women have access to quality maternal health services to ensure they can deliver in safety and also receive a medical birth notification for all newborn children. In Lebanon, birth registration has been mainstreamed into UNHCR’s health programme. In 2015, UNHCR supported 33,000 Syrians at hospitals for delivery or pregnancy related conditions. With the benefit of this programme, 98 per cent of Syrian babies born in Lebanon were delivered with the assistance of a skilled birth attendant. In Jordan, efforts to increase access to quality maternal health care resulted in 96 per cent of Syrian refugee women in non-camp settings giving birth in hospital in Marriage and birth certificates enhance the protection of women and children by securing their rights to family unity. Photo: UNHCR / J. Saidi 19