of their parents. This should be integrated into the Government’s work towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including in its SDG National Action Plan, to ensure that “no one is left behind” in the pursuit of Target 16.9 to “by 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration”. IV. Address structural discrimination against Roma, including prejudicial attitudes and negative stereotypes, to ensure that Roma are not directly or indirectly discriminated against in their access to documentation, enjoyment of their right to a nationality, and all other human rights. The Government must ensure that the Albanian legal framework is equipped to identify and prevent multiple discrimination faced by stateless Roma. V. Ensure that all civil registration and documentation procedures, including birth registration, are universally accessible by simplifying complex procedures and eliminating barriers related to cost, time, distance and bureaucracy. A central, computerised registry system should be established to enable automatic birth registration by healthcare institutions, facilitate efficient case resolution through sharing of information across different registry offices on the number of people affected by registration problems, and actions required to remedy these. VI. Strengthen cooperation with other states on the issue of birth registration for Albanian nationals whose children are born abroad. There should be improved joint-working between the Ministries of Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs to address bureaucratic challenges related to recognition of Albanian citizenship of children born to Albanian nationals abroad. State funded legal aid should be made available to those affected to ensure their births are registered and citizenship recognised. VII. Designate a lead authority with a mandate for preventing and reducing statelessness and identifying and protecting stateless persons in Albania. Their role should include awareness raising across government departments and institutions, including immigration and asylum, citizenship, and civil registry authorities. The National Human Rights Institutions and Ombudsperson should have a mandate to monitor and report on these issues. VIII. Make available effective remedies for all those seeking to resolve their documentation status, including high quality, state-funded legal aid (that does not require the very documentation they have been denied in order to access it), the removal of barriers such as court fees or fees for DNA testing, judicial oversight, and robust complaints and compensation mechanisms. IX. Strengthen the collection and monitoring of disaggregated data (including by ethnicity, age, and gender) and conduct a comprehensive mapping on state lessness, the risk of statelessness, and Roma populations in Albania, with appropriate safeguards in place to ensure anonymity. 11