30. We support the efforts led by the African Commission to adopt the Protocol on Nationality to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. 31. We urge States to coordinate activities in cross-border areas with one another to eradicate the risk of statelessness. In particular, we recommend to include the issue of resolving statelessness in any cross-border agreements between ECOWAS Member States, and to develop specific programmes aimed to reduce risks of statelessness in border areas with the support of civil society. 32. We call for a strengthening of the collaboration between ECOWAS and other regional organizations on issues relating to the right to nationality and the fight against statelessness, including the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and the Mano River Union (MRU). 33. We recommend that the different United Nations agencies and other international partners of ECOWAS Member States strengthen their collaboration on nationality and statelessness issues both at the regional level and between national offices, in particular by adopting common guidelines relating to statelessness and the right to nationality, in order to coordinate their actions and pool their resources. 34. We call upon States, with the support of civil society, the media, UNHCR and ECOWAS, to carry out information campaigns aimed at the general public on the importance of birth registration, the risk of statelessness and procedures to acquire a nationality. States should ensure that funds are allocated to support such information campaigns. We call upon the media to continue its important role in sharing information on statelessness, including through the regional media platform. 35. We call on civil society and lawyers in general to lodge cases relating to nationality and to use existing mechanisms within ECOWAS and the African Union including the Community Court of Justice and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ rights, to ensure compliance with international and regional conventions on statelessness and the right to a nationality. 36. We call on States to educate children in school on nationality and statelessness and also to include in the curricula of law faculties, law schools, magistrates’ schools and other judicial trainings a component on the right to nationality and statelessness; and in particular to strengthen the capacity of lawyers to review national laws for conformity with international conventions on nationality and statelessness ratified by the State, and to ensure that judges are regularly trained on these instruments so that they can apply them in case of contradiction with domestic law. We also recommend the development of training programs on statelessness for law enforcement authorities. 7