Lack of legal documentation is recognized as a protection concern in Cabo Delgado as many IDPs are forced to flee while leaving behind all their belongings, including their ID cards and birth certificates. Given the high number of IDPs fleeing without documentation, UNHCR started a legal clinic service through a partnership with the Catholic University of Mozambique in Pemba. The activity encompasses different components such as awareness, provision of legal assistance and identification of their needs, and identification of persons at risk of statelessness, all in coordination with the Government and other relevant institutions. The university has set up a mobile legal clinic, that reaches out to undocumented IDPs, and assists them in applying for documents. In so doing the project assists in assessing risks of statelessness and obstacles to documentation. Through the legal clinic service, more than 3,000 IDPs obtained renewed identity documents.
