AHMR African Human Mobility Review - Volume 11 No 2, MAY-AUGUST 2025 and grant stateless persons a nationality. Since the end of the campaign, the Global Alliance to End Statelessness was launched on 14 October 2024 at the High-Level Segment on Statelessness in Geneva, building on the foundational successes of the IBelong campaign. The 2024 High-Level Segment on Statelessness was held to launch the Global Alliance to End Statelessness and was not used to make or monitor pledges. It is thus not included in the analysis of pledges made toward statelessness in this paper. The Global Alliance to End Statelessness is the latest initiative, with the goal of finding solutions to end statelessness through a multi-stakeholder approach. The Global Alliance, with the UNHCR as its Secretariat, brings together a range of actors, such as governments, regional bodies, UN agencies, and other essential stakeholders to collaborate, share expertise and good practices, and ensure that the rights of stateless persons are upheld. The Global Alliance thus shares certain mechanisms with the GCR, such as a multi-stakeholder approach, which is discussed alongside the pledging system in the next section. PART III PLEDGE-MAKING IN THE SADC: EARLY ANALYSIS The GCR, as discussed above, does not deal extensively with statelessness. It has been supplemented by ad hoc stateless-specific events that used the pledging system. Nonetheless, pledges toward ending statelessness have been made at the previous two Global Refugee Forums as well as the High-Level Segment on Statelessness. Long-term and systemic analysis of these pledges is required to fully appreciate the extent to which there has been a material impact on ending statelessness in the region. The following section offers a step toward this by evaluating the role that the GCR and the pledging system played in the measures adopted thus far. It will be shown that states are currently playing the most significant role in offering pledges to address statelessness. While this is encouraging, as Part II showed, statelessness often hinges on discriminatory laws; this also reveals a potential lack of multi-stakeholder collaboration. Part II also discussed some of the major developments toward the goal of eradicating statelessness in the SADC region that are not explicitly connected to pledging. Part III adds to this discussion to effectively analyze the role of the GCR’s framework in addressing statelessness. In 2011, the UNHCR held a Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons that used pledge-making. A total of 62 states and the African Union (AU) made stateless-related pledges. South Africa and Tanzania pledged to become state parties to both statelessness conventions, while Madagascar and Zambia pledged to become parties to the 1961 Statelessness Convention (UNHCR, 2011). Mozambique noted that it was in the advanced stages of acceding to both conventions. Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia, and the DRC pledged to conduct studies and awareness campaigns on statelessness, and the latter two countries pledged to undertake civil registration projects (UNHCR, 2011). Before the 2019 120