The idea of the Arab Women's Right to Nationality campaign came about during a regional CRTD.A meeting On March 8th 2002 in response to the concern and commitment expressed by participating NGOs to work across the regional for women's right to nationality. The campaign was conceived within the framework of the Gender and Citizenship programme. The first phase was in the form of an action-research on Arab Women's Right to Nationality conducted in seven countries: Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen and Jordan, and national reports for each of these countries were written. Those reports have been compiled in a regional report that was presented in October 2003 at a regional validation meeting in Beirut. The second phase was planned during a regional strategy meeting held in Beirut on November 2004, with representatives of the concerned NGOs as well key actors and stakeholders in the field of gender, citizenship and nationality. A regional and country-based strategy, as well as a regional action plan took off in early 2005.