ANNEX B: ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS The following group of recommendations are supplementary to those presented in Section VIII of the Evaluation Report. These are considered lower-tier priority. Coordination within the UN This section contains recommendations on how PRM can support better coordination on statelessness between UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP, and others. 1. Pursue dialogue with the UN on ideas to ensure statelessness remains a priority within the Global Compact on Refugees structure and consider funding UN partners directly for statelessness work, including UNICEF, possibly through the “Every Child’s Right to a Nationality Coalition.” 2. Organize briefings with senior DOS staff and UN Special Rapporteurs and Experts on statelessness, including the Special Rapporteur for minority issues, the Independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief and the Working group on discrimination against women and girls. Momentum on Gender and Statelessness The link between gender and statelessness has been a real achievement of PRM in the past, but the gender focus must be maintained and continued into the future. 3. Continue the momentum of the Women’s Nationality Initiative by engaging within the Administration to get the issue of gender discrimination in nationality laws on the agenda of the newly established Gender Policy Council. 4. Encourage UNHCR to plan an international conference on Action 3: gender discrimination with UN partners, civil society, and the like-minded private sector actors to issue an action plan on ending gender discrimination in nationality laws worldwide. 5. Consider nominating a leader on gender equality in nationality laws for the International Women of Courage Award. Bilateral and Multilateral Diplomatic Efforts These recommendations pertain to high-level and working-level diplomacy by DOS highlevel diplomats, the Ambassador, Embassy Political Officers, and RefCoords. 6. Support RefCoords or assigned Political Officer to host roundtables and consultations with CSOs on statelessness at US Embassies (emphasizing participation of PoliticalEconomic Section, Refugee and Migrant Affairs Office, Front Office, and USAID). 7. Support RefCoords and\or Human Rights Officers to bring embassies of other interested countries together for information sharing and awareness-raising on statelessness, such as through regular “Group of Friends” meetings between embassies at the country level. 8. Create with UNHCR a Statelessness Working Group for UN partners and INGOs in relevant countries. 9. Encourage IOM to include statelessness as a core vulnerability for migrants in all relevant programming, acknowledging that stateless migrants are vulnerable, but also that migration can be a cause of statelessness. 34