The Action Plan was revised and updated further through a High Level Steering Committee Meetings in 2012, and progress was monitored at a fourth meeting in 2013. At UNHCR’s 2011 Ministerial Intergovernmental Event on Refugees and Stateless Persons, Kyrgyzstan pledged to “uphold a policy of prevention and reduction of statelessness and continue actively working in that direction in accordance with the National Action Plan (NAP) on Statelessness”. A Citizenship Working Group established by UNHCR with the participation of government officials, civil-society partners and UN agencies meets regularly to work on the various law reform initiatives included in the National Action Plan. 3. LEGAL AID AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH Since the Government of Kyrgyzstan approached UNHCR to undertake the surveys on statelessness in the northern and southern regions of the country in 2008, UNHCR has consistently worked with the Kyrgyz authorities and civil-society partners to address statelessness. For instance, in view of the lack of government resources to deal with the large number of people with USSR passports, UNHCR has provided capacity support to the departments of the State Registration Service in the South (Batken, Jalal-Abad and Osh provinces, where the largest numbers of stateless persons are believed to reside) and in the North (Chui province, including the country’s capital, Bishkek), as well as to the Citizenship Commission under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic. The support given to the Government has been complemented by strong partnerships with national legalservice NGOs in Bishkek as well as the south. These NGOs collaborate with UNHCR on campaigns designed to raise community awareness of the procedures for determination or acquisition of citizenship and for obtaining documents. They provide direct legal assistance to individuals applying for citizenship and documentation, including through mobile clinics in remote regions of the southern provinces. They also support UNHCR’s efforts to address the gaps that remain in national laws and by-laws. 18 CAMPAIGN TO END STATELESSNESS WITHIN 10 YE ARS