Indonesian Consul for Immigration, Majid Agus, presents an amended birth certificate to an applicant who filed for administrative correction his birth documents ©UNHCR/M.Palma On 17-18 April, UNHCR conducted a Stakeholders Forum for Local Civil Registrars (LCRs) in South Cotabato, Sarangani and Davao Occidental in the Philippines. The forum created a platform for LCRs to develop ways of facilitating late birth registration and administrative correction of birth certificates for persons of Indonesian descent. On 24 April, a Strategic Planning Meeting on the National Action Plan to End Statelessness (NAP) was held in Manila. Participants included Government agency representatives who developed and agreed on concrete and strategic approaches towards achieving the goals in the NAP, including accession to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and elaborating a process for registration that would confirm citizenship of the Sama Bajau population. On 24-27 April, the newly nominated Government Focal Points on Statelessness from 11 Member States of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) convened in Naivasha, Kenya for the first regional strategic workshop to advance the Brazzaville Declaration and Action Plan adopted in October 2017. The Focal Points endorsed a Roadmap, in which each Government committed in principle to forming a statelessness task-force by June 2018, preparing a draft National Action Plan by August 2018, and initiating the process of accession to the Statelessness Conventions by no later than August 2019. 3