Nationality for All

What Nationality for All does

Nationality for All (NFA) is an Australian-registered non-profit advocacy organization founded in October 2020, spun out from four years of work by the Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP) under the Malaysian NGO DHRRA Malaysia. It operates as a regional body dedicated to advancing the right to nationality and ending statelessness across Asia and the Pacific, employing a bottom-up, participatory, and intersectional feminist approach that prioritizes leadership of persons with lived experience of statelessness. NFA delivers its mission through four workstreams: Knowledge and Research, Partnerships and Accompaniment, Coalition and Movement Building, and Advocacy and Policy Influence.

The organization's flagship asset is the Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (SEAP), a publicly accessible digital knowledge platform documenting nationality laws, legal identity systems, exclusion, and affected populations across the region. SEAP's third edition is expanding coverage to include digital identity systems and civil registration across 48 Asia-Pacific countries. NFA also operates the SEAP Fellowship Programme (launched for 2026) and serves as Secretariat for the Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Coalition – Asia Pacific (SDCC-AP), launched in February 2024. It directly accompanies seven core partner organizations across Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Nepal, including Council of Minorities (COM), Citizenship Affected People's Network (CAPN), and Family Frontiers (FF).

NFA is funded through donations and institutional grants (including the Oak Foundation), with all resources provided free of charge. It generates revenue solely through philanthropic channels rather than commercial pricing. The team is small, with five core staff plus a three-person Board of Directors. Operations span Australia (registered headquarters in Banksia Beach, Queensland) and a Nepal office in Lalitpur, with program delivery across the six partner countries and broader advocacy engagement through global networks including GCENR, ISI, Namati, and the Global Statelessness Fund.

Name

Nationality for All

Legal name

Nationality for All

Website

https://nationalityforall.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Nationality for All (NFA) is an Australian-registered Asia-Pacific non-profit that advances nationality rights and combats statelessness through research, coalition-building, and partner accompaniment, operating the SEAP knowledge platform and serving as Secretariat of SDCC-AP across six partner countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Human Rights Advocacy Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Inclusive Trade (Gender, Youth, Marginalized Groups) (BPADAMAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Open Courseware & Course Modules (OCW) (EDAGAJAB)

Keywords

• Statelessness advocacy
• Human rights research
• Nationality rights
• Civil society coalition
• Policy advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Banksia Beach

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: NFA operates as a non-profit organization funded through donations and grants. The organization invites donations from the public to support its work ending statelessness across the Asia-Pacific region.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Nationality for All (NFA) is a regional non-profit organization that advances the right to a nationality in Asia-Pacific through four workstreams: Knowledge and Research (anchored by the Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific), Partnerships and Accompaniment with grassroots organizations, Coalition and Movement Building (as Secretariat of SDCC-AP), and Advocacy and Policy Influence via treaty body and UPR submissions. Its primary sellable product is the SEAP digital knowledge platform, complemented by the SEAP Fellowship Programme, reports, toolkits, podcasts, and videos provided free of charge to advocates, researchers, policymakers, civil society, and affected communities.

Product overview

Nationality for All (NFA) is a regional advocacy organization that operates primarily as a knowledge platform rather than a traditional software product company. NFA's core product is the Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (SEAP) - a comprehensive digital knowledge resource documenting statelessness, nationality laws, legal identity systems, and related human rights issues across the Asia-Pacific region. SEAP serves as the primary tool for advocates, researchers, policymakers, civil society organizations, and affected communities. NFA also runs the SEAP Fellowship Programme to build capacity for research and knowledge production on statelessness. The organization complements these knowledge products with advocacy work, coalition building (including SDCC-AP), partnerships with affected-person-led organizations, and engagement with UN human rights mechanisms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Statelessness Encyclopedia Asia Pacific (SEAP) NFA's flagship knowledge platform and one of the most comprehensive public resources on statelessness, nationality rights, legal identity, and exclusion in the Asia-Pacific region. SEAP brings together comparative information on laws, policies, affected populations, treaty body recommendations, and emerging issues across the region, with the latest edition expanding into digital identity systems and civil registration. It serves advocates, researchers, policymakers, civil society organizations, and affected communities working on evidence-based advocacy.
• SEAP Fellowship Programme A three-month full-time remote fellowship for early-career human rights professionals based in the Asia Pacific region. Fellows support the updating and verification of SEAP, covering Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia, and receive training in factchecking methodology, citation systems, and website updating processes.

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Council of Minorities (COM)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOM is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is led by those with lived experience of exclusion and discrimination. It serves as a platform, movement, and community for the Urdu-speaking minority in Bangladesh. Through research, advocacy, capacity building and paralegal support, COM advocates for minority rights and community access to justice. NFA provided COM with social media and website redesign support, strategic planning support (in collaboration with ISI), advocacy capacity building sessions, and ongoing tailored accompaniment.
• Citizenship Affected People's Network (CAPN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCAPN is a community-rooted organization dedicated to advocating for gender-equal nationality laws and the rights of stateless people in Nepal. NFA provided CAPN with hands-on support for project implementation plans, financial proposals, annual budgets, ongoing mentorship, advocacy planning workshop resulting in an advocacy roadmap, and a two-day strategic planning workshop for organizational development and advocacy strategy.
• Family Frontiers (FF)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFamily Frontiers is a community-rooted organization in Malaysia working on advancing and strengthening the family unity so that no family is left behind. FF was at the forefront of advocating for Malaysian women's equal right to confer citizenship. NFA supported FF's operations, collaborated on civil society joint submission for Malaysia's CEDAW and CRC reviews, and provided strategic planning retreat support.
• Statelessness and Dignified Citizenship Coalition - Asia Pacific (SDCC-AP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSDCC-AP is a regional coalition of civil society organizations and activists officially launched in February 2024 in Kuala Lumpur. NFA founded and serves as the Secretariat of SDCC-AP, supporting its operational, strategic, and advocacy efforts. The coalition has a Steering Committee with three impacted persons and representation from all five sub-regions.
• Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerISI is a key collaborative partner in NFA's coalition-building and partnership efforts. NFA and ISI jointly conducted the Peer-learning and Leadership Support Project with partner organizations, shared bilateral meetings monthly, and collaborated on strategic planning support for COM.
• Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSNAP was the predecessor network from which NFA was formed. NFA emerged from four years of SNAP's work to build a regional civil society movement on addressing statelessness. SNAP continues to be referenced in historical submissions and collaborative work.
• NamatiminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNFA co-organised the Peer Learning Exchange on Community Paralegals and Citizenship Rights alongside Namati and the Grassroots Justice Network. NFA also participated in the Legal Empowerment & Digital ID Learning Exchange hosted by Namati Kenya.
• Grassroots Justice NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with NFA in co-organising the Peer Learning Exchange on Community Paralegals and Citizenship Rights, and hosted the Legal Empowerment & Digital ID Learning Exchange.
• Peter McMullin Centre on StatelessnessminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNFA collaborated with the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness to produce the 51st Session of the Universal Periodic Review: Australia submission. NFA's Executive Director delivered a presentation at the Asia in Focus Seminar organized by the Centre.
• Central Asia Network on Statelessness (CANS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNFA worked with CANS on UPR submissions for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, alongside SDCC-AP.
• Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNFA serves as the Asia Pacific Focal Point for GCENR. NFA's Programme Coordinator co-facilitated sessions at the GCENR Youth Summit on Gender Equality in Nationality Laws in Istanbul, July 2024.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Central Asia Network on Statelessness (CANS): Regional network addressing statelessness in Central Asia. NFA worked directly with CANS on UPR submissions for Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, making them a peer in regional statelessness advocacy with overlapping methodology and donor ecosystem.
• European Network on Statelessness (ENS): Regional civil society coalition addressing statelessness in Europe through research, advocacy, and coalition building. ENS is the closest structural analogue to NFA, operating as a similar coalition-based regional advocacy network on statelessness, just focused on Europe rather than Asia-Pacific.
• Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness: Academic centre at the University of Melbourne focused on statelessness research and advocacy. NFA collaborated with the Centre on the 51st Session UPR: Australia submission, making them a closely linked research-and-advocacy peer in the statelessness field.
• Namati: Global organization dedicated to legal empowerment and community paralegals. Namati co-organized the Peer Learning Exchange on Community Paralegals and Citizenship Rights with NFA, indicating shared methodology around grassroots legal accompaniment and citizenship rights.
• Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI): Global civil society organization dedicated to the right to a nationality and the inclusion of stateless persons. ISI is a key collaborative partner of NFA, jointly conducting peer-learning and leadership support projects with the same partner organizations NFA works with.
• Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights (GCENR): International coalition working to end gender discrimination in nationality laws. NFA serves as GCENR's Asia-Pacific Focal Point and NFA's Programme Coordinator co-facilitates GCENR summits, making them directly aligned coalition partners on nationality rights reform.

Regional players

• Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN): Regional network of civil society organizations and advocates promoting the rights of refugees and displaced persons across the Asia-Pacific. Operates in adjacent thematic and geographic space with overlapping civil society members, partners, and donor ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• UNHCR - Statelessness Section: The UN agency mandated to address statelessness globally, including through the #IBelong Campaign and Global Action Plan to End Statelessness. UNHCR is a broader incumbent operating worldwide with significantly more resources; NFA complements it via regional Asia-Pacific civil society engagement.
• Refugees International: Established advocacy organization that works on forced displacement, statelessness, and protection issues globally. Comparable in advocacy and policy-influence function though broader in scope, with significantly more institutional capacity than NFA.
• Terre des Hommes: International child rights organization working on migration, identity, and birth registration issues affecting stateless children. Comparable as a larger established organization addressing some of the same nationality, identity, and child rights issues NFA engages with.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/statelessnessnetworkasiapacific

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

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