With regard to Action 6, on 9 November, the authorities in Kosovo1 granted statelessness status to the first four applicants to go through the Statelessness Determination Procedure, thereby granting them access to residency rights and basic services. After completing the five-year residency period, they will be eligible to apply for facilitated naturalization in accordance with the Law on Citizenship. In line with Action 7, UNHCR provided support to a number of governments in issuing birth certificates to populations at risk of statelessness. From 21 November to 2 December, the Government of the Republic of Congo, with support from UNHCR, organized a campaign to issue birth certificates to indigenous populations in the departments of La Lekoumou, Kouilou and Sangha. The campaign involved mobile court hearings that resulted in 2,000 indigenous people receiving birth certificates. In line with Action 7, Ensure birth registration for the prevention of statelessness, the Ministry of Interior and Decentralization of Madagascar and Focus Development Association organized an awareness campaign on birth registration from September to December. Videos were screened and broadcast text messages sent to communities in pre-identified areas to encourage birth registration and thereby reduce the risk of statelessness. In Sudan, the civil registry and UNHCR continued birth registration campaigns in Darfur, Kordofan and White Nile states that contributed to up to 15,000 children having their births registered in the last quarter of 2020. The campaigns targeted refugees, IDPs and host communities and involved late birth registration as well as cases of children born out of wedlock and foundlings. Also on Action 7, in the Republic of Congo, UNHCR and local authorities organized an awareness raising campaign on birth registration from 1 November to 31 December in the departments of Brazzaville, Plateaux and Likouala. Community relays were trained and deployed to raise awareness among households on the need to register births in order to reduce the risk of statelessness. In Tanzania, a campaign by the authorities and UNHCR to clear birth registration backlogs among refugee children born in Kigoma resulted in the issuance of 13,537 birth certificates. In Yemen, UNHCR, in close collaboration with civil registration authorities, continued to provide legal assistance to displaced families to ensure birth registration, facilitating the issuance of 305 birth certificates to refugee/asylum seeker children and 4,969 birth certificates to IDP children. In Egypt, UNHCR supported the birth registration of 215 children through the provision of legal aid. Also in line with Action 7, on 13 November, the Republic of Congo published Ministerial Order n° 14888 to establish auxiliary civil status centres in health facilities to limit the risks of non-registration of children when they leave the hospital. Also in line with Action 7, the Government of Montenegro has started implementing a new birth registration practice which involves the immediate birth registration of children abandoned by their mothers, or whose mothers are missing identification documents. The new birth registration practice is in line with the Government of Montenegro’s pledge at the High-Level Segment on Statelessness to strengthen collaboration between the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare and the Ministry of Interior to conduct immediate birth registration of children. Although the number of children facing Further on Action 7, on 1 November, a new law “on Civil Acts” entered into force in the Kyrgyz Republic which ensures the right to register the fact of the birth of a child and for the child to be issued with a proof of birth regardless of the parents’ possession of documents. This will allow a child to access medical care and social benefits. In accordance with the new legal provisions, actual birth certificates can only be issued after at least one parent is documented. 1 All References to Kosovo in this document shall be understood to be in the context of Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999). 8