Annex: Compendium of pledges delivered at the HLS Year of completion expected by the State Relevant Action of the Global Action Plan/ Thematic Focus 2020 7 By 2022, the Central African Republic commits to simplify and facilitate access to the issuance of nationality documentation to returnees of Central African origin (former refugees) who have returned to Central African territory in the context of voluntary repatriation with the assistance of UNHCR and who do not or no longer have nationality documentation and are entitled to them. 2022 8 By 2020 and at the latest by the end of 2021, the Central African Republic, in collaboration with other regional actors such as the Commission for the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African (CEMAC) and UNHCR, commits to undertake and publish a study to better understand the situation of individuals and groups of stateless persons or at risk of statelessness living on its territory and/or subject to its jurisdiction, with a final aim to finding a solution to their situation. 2021 10 By 2021, the Central African Republic hereby commits to improve access to birth registration procedures, including the late birth registration in order to ensure the registration of all births that have taken place on its territory and, in particular, to strengthen the institutional capacity of vital registration services in localities of return of returnees (former refugees) and internally displaced persons to ensure that all these persons who were born on the territory have a birth certificate. 2021 7 By December 2019, the Central African Republic hereby commits to finalize and to adopt a national plan to eradicate statelessness in the Central African Republic by 2024. 2019 Other (National Action Plan) By the end of 2021, the Central African Republic hereby commits to insert a provision into the Central African Nationality Code of 1961 subsequently amended providing for the conferral of Central African nationality at birth to children born on its territory who would otherwise be stateless. 2021 2 The Central African Republic hereby commits to accede to the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons by June 2020 at the latest, and to fully implement these provisions in its domestic legislation. 2020 9 The Central African Republic hereby commits to accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness by June 2020 at the latest and to fully implement these provisions in its domestic legislation. 2020 9 The Central African Republic hereby commits to reform the Nationality Code of 1961 subsequently amended in order to allow Central African men and women to transmit their nationality to their spouses on an equal footing by the end of 2021. 2021 3 State Pledge The Government of the Republic of Cameroon hereby commits to implement the Government decision of March 2019 on the regularization of the civil registry for persons living without birth certificates. The Minister in charge of Decentralization and Local Development has instructed municipal judges to take all measures deemed necessary to carry out a census of all persons without birth certificates in their units of command and to regularize the situation of such persons in conjunction with hospitals (certificate on apparent age) and courts of first instance (judgements in lieu of birth certificates). Central African Republic U N H C R > H I G H - L E V E L S E G M E N T O N S T A T E L E S S N E S S : R E S U LT S A N D H I G H L I G H T S 53