92 RECOMMENDATIONS GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF THE GENERAL SECURITY (GDGS) Short-term recommendations • Treat ongoing legal processes connected to stateless litigation as a matter of high priority. • Clarify and publish the process of registering births and marriages (including of Lebanese men to foreign wives), as well as the criteria for granting citizenship, in order to make the processes more transparent and accessible. • Facilitate the process of retrieving documents from MDWs’ countries of origins, through embassies. • Enact a moratorium on arresting and deporting MDWs who are mothers to stateless children. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (IOs) Short-term recommendations • Raise awareness and mobilize a larger audience around statelessness issues, and help the appropriate authorities in ending this phenomenon. • Continue to advocate for the rights of stateless people within the various institutions of the Government of Lebanon, helping the state to uphold its duty to protect stateless people and prevent statelessness. • Collaborate with civil society groups in their efforts to prevent and end statelessness in Lebanon, and support stateless populations. • Empower stateless people by: 1. Ensuring their access to specific facilities and services, such as Community Development Centers and supported Public Health Centers to participate in psycho-social support, skills training, and life skills activity programs. 2. Creating an updated referral method for stateless people to access services, including those at the national level. 3. Taking into account the variety, age, and gender issues that this study revealed. • Design programming for stateless groups and individuals that goes beyond legal aid, providing services such as psycho-social support as well as in-kind and financial assistance to stateless individuals, with the aim of addressing statelessness in a comprehensive way. • Enhance coordination between local and international organizations to improve ways of providing assistance for stateless individuals. • Build on former success stories, lessons learned and best practices of organizations such as Tahaddi focused on educating and providing healthcare while trying to empower the local community. • Propose programming to donors that targets individuals based on vulnerability rather than nationality, ensuring that projects are inclusive to stateless persons. • Promote, coordinate through and foster alliances such as the New Global Alliance to End Statelessness, focusing on the #IBelong campaign, on its global, regional, and national levels. © 2023 Siren Associates. All Rights Reserved.