Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Duties and Qualifications
Identify/ Map out stateless persons:
• Support the Government in conducting assessments on the scale of statelessness through participatory assessment (numbers, geographical spread, etc.)
• Understand the profile of the population that is affected by statelessness (demographic composition, including data disaggregated by sex and age);
• Determine causes, obstacles, and solutions to statelessness (gaps in legislation, administrative practice, etc.) and identify protection issues faced by the population.

Prevention Activities:
• Promote accession to 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
• Advocate and provide technical advice on nationality legislation.
• Advocate for improved birth registration and documentation
• Build capacity of the Government on statelessness, domestic and international laws with the focus on nationality laws.
• Work with academic institutions to introduce curriculum on statelessness

Reduction Activities:
• Work with the Government and Partners to conduct regular outreaches to stateless communities and those at risk of statelessness.
• Provide legal counselling to stateless communities.
• Advocate for changes to the law and policy to allow for inclusion of stateless/at risk population
• Advocate for facilitated naturalization and durable solutions for stateless refugees.

Protection Activities:
• Ensure enjoyment of basic human rights by stateless persons
• Advocate and provide technical advice for establishing improving status determination procedures for stateless persons
• Advocate for adequate legislation and effective administrative practices to ensure rights of stateless persons
• Advocate for integration of stateless persons/former stateless people into development programmes
• Promote the IBelong Campaign to create awareness on statelessness

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Please note that the closing date for this vacancy is Monday 14 March 2022.
Apply at: https://public.msrp.unhcr.org/psp/RAHRPRDX/EMPLOYEE/HR/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=2&JobOpeningId=34221&PostingSeq=1 

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