Coalition and Movement Building - Nationality For All

Strengthening collective advocacy and regional solidarity

Statelessness and nationality exclusion are complex, cross-border challenges that cannot be addressed by individual organizations working in isolation. Meaningful change requires collaboration, collective advocacy, and stronger connections between affected communities, civil society organizations, researchers, and policy actors.

Nationality For All (NFA) works to strengthen coalition spaces and collaborative platforms that advance nationality rights, legal identity, and inclusive governance across Asia and the Pacific. Our coalition-building work is grounded in the belief that stronger movements emerge through solidarity, shared learning, and collective action.

Our Approach

Strengthening Regional Solidarity

Regional collaboration creates opportunities for shared advocacy, collective learning, and stronger strategic coordination across national contexts. NFA supports spaces that enable organizations and affected communities to exchange experiences, identify common challenges, and build collective responses to systemic exclusion.

Supporting Collective Advocacy Platforms

Coalitions can play a critical role in strengthening civil society coordination, amplifying advocacy messages, and creating more sustained engagement with regional and global policy spaces. NFA contributes to coalition spaces through strategic support, participation, technical engagement, and collaborative advocacy.

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Building Bridges Across Intersecting Movements

Statelessness intersects with broader conversations on migration, displacement, digital governance, legal identity, and civil registration. NFA works across these overlapping spaces to strengthen collaboration between movements and encourage more inclusive and rights-based approaches to policy and systems reform.

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Coalition Engagement

Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Coalition – Asia Pacific (SDCC-AP)

NFA played a foundational role in supporting the establishment and early development of the Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Coalition – Asia Pacific (SDCC-AP), including serving as the coalition’s Secretariat during its initial phase.

While NFA’s formal Secretariat role has concluded, we remain an active member of the coalition and continue to support its efforts to strengthen regional advocacy, solidarity, and affected-person leadership on statelessness and nationality rights across Asia and the Pacific.

Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN)

NFA actively engages with the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) as part of broader efforts to strengthen collaboration across displacement, protection, nationality rights, and legal identity movements in the region. NFA currently serves on APRRN’s Steering Committee, is a member of its International Board, and holds the Deputy Chair position of the South Asia Working Group. Through this engagement, we contribute to strengthening regional advocacy, cross-movement solidarity, and more coordinated responses to issues affecting refugees, stateless persons, and other marginalized communities across Asia and the Pacific.

Regional Steering Group on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS)

NFA is a member of the Regional Steering Group on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in Asia and the Pacific, the regional body guiding implementation of commitments on inclusive civil registration and legal identity systems. NFA played a key role in the Third Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Asia and the Pacific in 2025, coordinating civil society engagement, leading the joint CSO statement, and delivering it at the Ministerial Conference. Through this engagement, NFA works with regional partners to advance implementation of the Ministerial Declaration, with particular attention to inclusion, legal identity, and communities at risk of statelessness,

Human Rights for Digital Identity (HR4ID) Coalition

The Human Rights for Digital Identity (HR4ID) Coalition is a global multi-stakeholder alliance working to ensure that digital identity systems are designed and governed in ways that uphold human rights, inclusion, privacy, accountability, and non-discrimination. As governments increasingly rely on digital identity systems to regulate access to citizenship, public services, and legal recognition, marginalized communities, including stateless persons and those lacking documentation, face heightened risks of exclusion and harm. NFA has been a member of the HR4ID Coalition since its inception and sees this partnership as increasingly strategic as our work expands into digital identity and inclusion. Through our research, particularly the Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (SEAP), and our partnerships with affected communities, NFA brings a critical statelessness and nationality rights perspective to global digital governance conversations and aims to play a more active role in advancing inclusive, rights-based digital identity systems.

Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR)

NFA collaborates with the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR) to advance advocacy on gender-discriminatory nationality laws across the Asia-Pacific region. Through this partnership, NFA contributed legal research to GCENR’s Legal Atlas on Gender Discrimination in Nationality Laws, including country chapters on Brunei and Kiribati, helping strengthen the evidence base for advocacy and policy reform.

Building on this work, NFA organized both the Asia-Pacific regional launch of the Legal Atlas in Bangkok and the national launch in Nepal, creating important spaces for dialogue among civil society, UN agencies, regional actors, and national advocates. These convenings helped position gender-equal nationality rights within broader regional conversations on statelessness, legal identity, and gender equality, while strengthening pathways for coordinated advocacy and policy engagement.

Emerging Initiatives

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NFA is also supporting the development of emerging coalition spaces at the intersection of statelessness, legal identity, and systems inclusion. This includes ongoing efforts to convene civil society organizations working on inclusive civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems, recognizing the critical role of birth registration and legal identity in preventing statelessness and ensuring access to rights. As NFA’s work increasingly engages with digital identity, documentation, and governance systems, we see growing value in building stronger collaboration across these intersecting sectors to promote more inclusive, rights-based, and accountable systems for marginalized communities.