2. Strategic objectives
Strategic objective 1: To ensure compliance with relevant legal, policy and institutional frameworks for eradicating statelessness
ICGLR Member States recognize that the adoption of a common regional approach in view of the ratification and the implementation of the UN
Conventions on Statelessness, the harmonization of corresponding national legislations and norms and the provision of identity documents to
refugees and displaced persons, enabling them to access basic social services and to enjoy their human rights are key elements in the prevention
and eradication of statelessness in the Great Lakes Region. Three (3) States including Zambia, Uganda and Rwanda have already acceded to the
1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons while only one State (Rwanda) has already acceded to the 1961 Convention on the
Reduction of Statelessness.
Recognizing the necessity of harmonizing the nationality laws in the region and ICGLR’s pivotal role in eradication and prevention of statelessness,
ICGLR, in collaboration with UNHCR and the competent institutions of the African Union, will assist Member States by adopting common standards
that will guide the reform of nationality legislation of the States of the Great Lakes Region, including inter alia the removal of discriminatory provisions
in the transmission of nationality and the inclusion of safeguards against statelessness to ensure that every child acquires a nationality at birth.
Objective 1.1: Accession to the international conventions on statelessness
Activities
Performance Indicator
1.1.1 Undertake sensitization and information
campaigns in Member States on the need to accede to
the International Conventions on Statelessness for
government authorities, civil society organizations and
other relevant stakeholders
1.1.2 Present a Memorandum to the ICGLR on the
need to accede to the International Conventions on
Statelessness
Responsible Authorities
# of campaigns carried ICGLR Executive
out
Secretariat of ICGLR,
UNHCR, civil society
organizations
Memorandum presented ICGLR Executive
to the Regional Inter- Secretariat
ministerial
Committee
(RIMC)
3
Source
of Timeframe
Verification
Workshop reports 2023
Memorandum;
End 2019
Report of the
meeting of the
Regional
InterMinisterial
Committee
(RIMC)