2020 Statelessness & Citizenship Review 2(1) a mechanism for the identification of their beneficiaries. 147 While for many decades, states have granted refugee status through refugee status determination procedures, a similar commitment is required to develop SDPs. In this article, we have put forward a number of conditions that SDPs should meet, and we applied these conditions to Nigeria, which is in the process of developing an SDP. We conclude that Nigeria, and in fact any state which has or does not yet have an SDP, may want to give particular attention to standards relating to legality and ‘bindingness’ of the proposed SDP, to procedural access and to procedural guarantees. SDPs meeting these criteria will make a significant contribution to the protection, identification, prevention and eradication of statelessness worldwide. It remains that bespoke SDP procedures ought to be developed for individual states, as the effectiveness of such procedures depends on their embeddedness in, and relationship to existing institutions. In this article, we have suggested some tailor-made solutions for Nigeria in this respect. 147 Swider and den Heijer (n 12) 109. 111