associations.18 The RAE population at risk of statelessness identify NGOs as the primary providers of free legal aid when applying for documents (as reported by 48 percent of those polled), with slightly fewer citing local authorities’ legal aid services. Attorneys were the least commonly identified in this role, at 1.3 percent, and a final 15 percent chose ‘none of the above’ as their response. The relatively low recognition rate of free legal aid providers is partly a consequence of 61 percent of all respondents at risk of statelessness claiming no-one had offered them help to date in their attempts to secure birth registration, obtain birth certificates, or other documents. Figure 4.6.1. Percentage of the RAE population offered help to obtain documents, comparison of 2010, 2015, and 2020 findings (%) 37 24 10 2010 2015 2020 As many as 59 percent of persons offered some sort of assistance cited the NGO Praxis, followed by local Roma co-ordinators (44 percent), CSWs (16 percent), local Roma health mediators (15 percent) local teaching assistants (7 percent), and the UNHCR and the Trustee/Commissariat for Refugees and Migrations (at 2 percent each). 18 The Register of Free Legal Aid and Legal Support Providers (last updated in September 2020) is available at mpravde.gov.rs/tekst/26350/registar-pruzalaca-besplatne-pravne-pomoci-i-besplatne-pravne-podrske.php [in Serbian]. 38 PERSONS AT RISK OF STATELESSNESS IN SERBIA OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION AND THE WAY FORWARD