November 2019 This policy brief draws on information shared by experts and practitioners during the ISI World Conference on Statelessness from 27-29 June 2019, in particular Grand Challenge session 2 on “SDG 16.9 and ‘legal identity for all’: opportunity or threat?” and Grand Challenge session 8 on “The development legacy of statelessness”. It also draws from discussions in a closed-door meeting convened by ISI, the Knowledge Platform Security and Rule of Law, and Open Society Justice Initiative in the margins of the ISI World Conference to discuss how to move citizenship up the SDG ‘legal identity’ agenda. Some of the information is also drawn from previous ISI tools and publications, including the Paperless People Podcast and Statelessness Essentials booklet on SDG16.9. Visit https://www.institutesi.org/focus-areas/legal-identity to access these materials. 6