10. Promote coverage of statelessness in the national media to support mindset shift in situations where political will is hampered by public opinion and discourse. 11. Urge the United States to continue to make recommendations on statelessness in the Universal Periodic Reviews. 12. Continue to support high-level diplomacy on statelessness by other countries, such as through the Group of Friends, including coordinating talking points. 13. Re-engage as a core member of the Group of Friends. Supporting Reforms at UNHCR Over the medium term, these are recommendations to PRM to explore and support reforms within UNHCR that will help make UNHCR more effective on statelessness. 14. Inform UNHCR of PRM’s interest in recruiting JPOs to focus on statelessness and encourage country offices to request JPOs in countries with major statelessness situations. 15. Ensure that Department of International Protection rosters include statelessness experts. 16. Urge UNHCR to continue the dedicated focal point in DER for-statelessness media, communications and fundraising past 2024. Statelessness research This section includes recommendations for PRM to improve knowledge of statelessness with key actors. 17. Urge DOS to encourage the World Bank to increase the number of studies on the link between statelessness and poverty. 18. Increase engagement with key US universities on statelessness, including the development of statelessness curricula. Capacity Building for Stateless People 19. Urge UNHCR to include more stateless people and stateless-led organizations, virtually or in-person where possible, in all high-level events and to link stateless persons and organizations with media training. Capacity Building for Partners These recommendations are for PRM to help the UN and UNHCR engage more effectively with other agencies in the medium term, beyond the end of the #IBelong Campaign. 20. Encourage UNHCR to create a high-level, bi-annual award for a statelessness advocate (modeled on the Nansen award) with partners such as OHCHR and/or through the Group of Friends. 21. In regions where statelessness is less politically sensitive, encourage UNHCR to create a series of participatory meetings for government officials working at the local and district level on civil registration to share best practices with officials from neighboring countries and create strategies to register cross-border populations. 22. Encourage the UN to create concrete global standards for collecting statistics on statelessness and continue to support nascent coordination functions like the Interagency Group on Statelessness Estimation (IGSE). 23. Urge all UN partners to mainstream statelessness throughout all regional and global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) initiatives. 35