Online Marketplace
The Online Marketplace is a structured (primarily) digital platform hosted on the Alliance website serving as a repository of collaborative project proposals from Alliance members working to advance the Alliance’s vision. It seeks to connect donors interested in supporting statelessness work with impactful initiatives, providing a convenient ‘one-stop shop’ where donors can quickly assess project snapshots for potential funding, thereby, attracting additional support for this area of work.
It allows organizations to showcase brief snapshots without the burden of developing extensive proposals—a challenge for small grassroots civil society organizations and others with limited capacity.
Online Marketplace
The Online Marketplace is a structured (primarily) digital platform hosted on the Alliance website serving as a repository of collaborative project proposals from Alliance members working to advance the Alliance’s vision. It seeks to connect donors interested in supporting statelessness work with impactful initiatives, providing a convenient ‘one-stop shop’ where donors can quickly assess project snapshots for potential funding, thereby, attracting additional support for this area of work.
It allows organizations to showcase brief snapshots without the burden of developing extensive proposals—a challenge for small grassroots civil society organizations and others with limited capacity.
The Online Marketplace supports the Global Alliance’s efforts to end statelessness by attracting funding and fostering collaboration.
Specifically, it aims to:
• Increase funding for statelessness-related initiatives by providing a central repository of project snapshots, making it easier for donors to identify and support impactful work.
• Streamline project matchmaking by reducing the burden on organizations with limited capacity to develop full proposals, especially without guaranteed funding, while enabling donors to efficiently assess multiple initiatives.
• Strengthen collaboration and pledge implementation by connecting Global Alliance members with external partners and linking projects to the Global Action Plan to End Statelessness 2.0 and relevant Global Refugee Forum (GRF) pledges.
Brief project proposals (snapshots)
Projects seeking funding
Advancing Gender Equality in Nationality Laws
Funded
United States of America
Brief description:
Lead: Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR)
Region/Country: International
Nationality laws in twenty-four countries deny women’s right to confer nationality on their children on an equal basis as men, with the highest concentration of these laws found in the Middle East, especially the Gulf region. Over 40 countries4 have at least one gender-discriminatory nationality laws provision, including denying women’s equal rights to confer nationality on a non-national spouse. Gender discrimination in nationality laws (GDNL) is leading cause of statelessness, causes other wide-ranging human rights violations, and inhibits the Sustainable Development Goals.
Concerted advocacy at the global and regional levels is required to complement national-level efforts and highlight the negative impacts of GDNL and what is required to change them in international/targeted-regional spaces in order to galvanize action by policymakers.
Mobilizing African Civil Society to Advance Ratification & Implementation of the AU Protocol on Nationality and Statelessness
Funded
South Africa
Brief description:
Lead; Lawyers for Human Rights
Region/Country: Africa
The African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Specific Aspects of the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness in Africa in February 2024. To date, progress toward its ratification remains limited. Statelessness continues to affect millions across the continent, particularly children, women, and displaced communities. Many CSOs lack the resources, technical tools, and coordinated platforms to meaningfully advocate for treaty ratification, legal reform, or access to documentation.
This project addresses that gap by building on the work of South African Network on Statelessness (SANN) to amplify regional coordination, build advocacy capacity, and generate political momentum for ratification. It also seeks to leverage strategic regional advocacy events to raise visibility and foster intergovernmental dialogue on the Protocol and its implementation.
Multi-stakeholder Engagement to Advance Advocacy in the MENA through the Global Action Plan and a Regional Legal Database
Funded
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Brief description:
Lead: The Mena Statelessness Network (Hawiati)
Region/Country: Middle East and North Africa
Statelessness remains a critical human rights issue in the MENA region. Though policy borrowing occurs across the region, efforts to regionalize civil society campaigns have faltered. The MENA region is further constrained by the absence of an inter-governmental actor whose institutions have a mandate to actively engage with civil society.
We seek to address two related aspects of this complex problem. First is the absence of comprehensive data and legal background, that could power advocacy to end statelessness and serve as a one-stop reference for national laws, jurisprudence, and administrative practices. The linkages among nationality laws, administrative regulations, and human rights, and the parallels that exist in these relationships across countries in the region have not surfaced. A second component is the development of Hawiati as a coordinator of multi-stakeholder engagement in the region.
Strengthening community participation and leveraging change
Funded
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Brief description:
Lead : European Network on Statelessness
Region/Country: Europe / International
Over half a million people in Europe are denied their right to a nationality and other human rights. The causes of statelessness in Europe include State succession, gaps, conflicts or discrimination in nationality laws and State practices, as well as deliberate policies to deny or strip people of nationality. Statelessness affects both migrants and refugees, and people who have lived in the same place for generations. Thousands of children are born stateless in Europe each year because States do not have safeguards in their laws to ensure that every child acquires a nationality.
There is an urgent need to build on recent progress in encouraging more European states to introduce dedicated statelessness determination procedures (SDPs) as well as to reform nationality laws so that they contain full safeguards to prevent children being born stateless, as required by international law.
Strengthening EANN’s Regional Leadership for Statelessness Solutions
Funded
Kenya
Brief description:
Lead: Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)
Region/Country: Eastern Africa
In the Eastern Africa region, statelessness is caused by several factors including discrimination based on ethnicity or religion like in Kenya and Uganda, gender discrimination in nationality law like in Somalia, administrative and bureaucratic barriers, conflicts in nationality law, state succession like in South Sudan, lack of frameworks and structures for comprehensive and systematic documentation of nationals, limited knowledge among the stakeholders, among other factors.
In addition, there are hundreds of thousands who are citizens of different countries according to the law, but in practice cannot prove their nationality due to barriers in obtaining basic legal identification documents such as birth certificates, national identity cards and passports.
Strengthening the implementation of the GRF Pledges on Statelessness in the Asia Pacific
Funded
Nepal
Brief description:
Lead: Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Coalition Asia Pacific (SDCC-AP)
Region/Country: Asia
While civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Asia-Pacific region have demonstrated growing interest in addressing statelessness, efforts remain fragmented and often lack the institutional coordination and sustainability needed to drive systemic change. SDCC-AP, a key regional platform, is currently operating under the umbrella of another organization —Nationality For All (NFA), which places certain limits on its autonomy, visibility, and operational capacity.
This project seeks to address these foundational gaps by supporting SDCC-AP in two critical areas: (1) obtaining legal registration as an independent entity based in Bangkok, Thailand; and (2) convening an in-person meeting of the Steering Committee and IPAG to finalize the organization’s strategic and operational direction.
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