1. INTRODUCTION The European Network on Statelessness (ENS) is a registered Charity in the UK (Registered Charity Number 1158414). ENS is a civil society alliance of over 170 organisations and individual experts in 41 countries and is committed to ending statelessness and ensuring that everyone living in Europe without a nationality can access the rights they are entitled to under international law. ENS’ London-based Secretariat coordinates the activities of a range members from large international NGOs to grassroots and community organisations, legal advice agencies, ‘thinktanks’, stateless activists, and prominent international law experts. Who are Community Speakers? ENS works with a range of people affected by statelessness including both stateless changemakers and representatives of communities affected by statelessness (e.g. Roma community advocates). This is a diverse group where individuals prefer different by-lines to describe their experience or expertise. In the following document we use the term ‘community speaker’ as a catch-all term to describe both stateless changemakers and community representatives. This External Speaker Policy is intended to set basic standards and expectations for external organisations working with ENS who request recommendations for speakers with experience of statelessness or representing communities affected by statelessness. These standards and expectations have been co-designed with stateless community representatives, based on their recommendations and outlined needs. 2. AIM ENS wants to increase the presence of stateless community members in advocacy spaces and spaces of influence and does not want to act as a gatekeeper keeping communities away from influential spaces. At the same time, where possible, we want to encourage other organisations to be guided by best practice when working with community speakers, including to ensure a trauma-sensitive, respectful approach including not requiring people to ‘tell their stories’. When connecting new organisations with community speakers, ENS also wants to avoid our contacts feeling pressured to ‘tell their stories’ because ENS connected them. 3. PROCESS ENS liaison with community speaker Prior to sending the speaker’s details to an external contact, ENS will check with the speaker if they are interested in the event and consent to their contact details being shared. If so, ENS will: ● ● ● pass on their details after the above policy is outlined to the external organisation offer support to the speaker in preparing for the event (e.g., editing, speech practice etc.) check-in with them after the event