BUILDING STATELESSNESS-SENSITIVE ID SYSTEMS 18 • How can birth registration procedures be strengthened to help prevent statelessness? What capacity-building should be provided to officials who are assessing nationality for ID purposes? • Technical questions include: D What types of data related to nationality may be considered for collection in foundational identification systems, and what approaches exist for validating such data? D In what circumstances should a “stateless” or other “non-national” marker be visible on digital identity credentials and/or visible at the back end of identity systems? D How should the legal and policy environment for stateless people influence choices in this regard? D And how can due process protections and grievance mechanisms be built into ID systems so that people have recourse if they’re incorrectly assessed not to be citizens?