Good Practices Brochure: Stateless Women and Girls Since 2015, ADRA in partnership with UNHCR has been implementing the Statelessness Reduction and Community Sensitization (CSP) project to help resolve the situation of statelessness in Thailand. The project aims to provide legal support and assist stateless people in preparing nationality applications, coordinate and provide technical support for local registrars in processing nationality applications and advocate for wider access to nationality and basic rights. An assessment carried out by UNHCR revealed that people living in remote areas faced numerous challenges to access to Thai nationality application procedures, including the distance from district administrations and lack of awareness in communities. UNHCR discovered that collaboration with central and local authorities as well as NGO networks and stateless communities was crucial in supporting and accelerating the processing of applications and related civil status documentation. It was also crucial to engage communities in order to enhance their awareness. The CSP project targeted areas with high prevalence of statelessness. In 2015, ADRA initially opened service points in five schools in Mae Fah Luang District in northern Thailand, enabling stateless students to obtain relevant information and prepare their applications for civil status documentation, permanent residency and nationality. With the success of this model, the project was extended to two other districts in the following years. The service points were then expanded to include community areas to enable easy access for stateless people. As of now, CSP operates 10 service points that coordinate with 90 schools and 45 community areas in three districts of Chiang Rai; Mae Fah Luang, Mae Chan and Mae Sai. Each service point has one community mobilizer and one community volunteer to provide legal counselling and assist stateless people in checking documents and filling nationality applications. The project has also engaged community leaders, NGO networks and local authorities for policy advocacy and capacity-building activities on legislations related to nationality and civil registration. Now serving as a community volunteer for CSP, Chayapa continues to serve her community in Chiang Rai Province and help stateless people obtain Thai nationality. Reference: https://adrathailand.org/impact/stateless-reduction/ The original case study was contributed by Nantanee Jedsadachaiyut (UNHCR) 6