A/71/279 Government-led profiling exercise supported by JIPS helped to build an evidence base and inform policy development on internal displacement providing a good example that could be replicated. 67. At the Summit, Member States committed to improve practices around data collection, analysis and early warning, including the establishment of a global risk platform. The Secretary-General committed to making all United Nations plans and programmes risk informed. On behalf of seven multilateral development banks, the World Bank and the European Investment Bank committed to close collaboration in order to generate more evidence and data to guide solutions in fragile States with an objective of promoting economic resilience. 68. While there is general agreement on the need to engage and involv e development actors in displacement responses at an earlier stage, this must be informed by data and analysis to best identify where, when and how development actors should intervene to best effect. Improving “development -relevant” data and analysis on displacement will help to justify or trigger a more “displacement sensitive” development approach in affected countries. 11 While it remains difficult to generate an analysis that serves the information needs of all actors and to reach agreement on evidence-based priorities for response through genuinely collaborative efforts, this has been achieved in several contexts including integrating displacement issues into national development plans. A recent profiling exercise in Mogadishu, supported by JIPS, is a good example of this. C. Engaging internally displaced persons as partners 69. New approaches need to engage displaced persons as partners and not simply beneficiaries. These approaches should achieve better consultation with and the participation of displaced communities as part of a broader process of assessment and informed response, including in the application of durable solutions. This helps to ensure the human agency of internally displaced persons as those with the greatest understanding of the community’s needs and vulnerabilities, but also its wishes, expectations, skills and resilience capacity. Assessments of needs should go hand in hand with assessment of potential, including the capacity to lead or benefit from resilience, recovery and livelihood initiatives. 70. Internally displaced persons must have a greater say and role in shaping the nature of assistance and support that they receive and the solutions targeted at them. The Special Rapporteur has found that the common message from interna lly displaced persons is that they are deprived of their dignity, have little hope and feel that nobody is listening to them, let alone consulting them. Meaningful consultation and participation of internally displaced persons guarantee the durability and legitimacy of solutions and help to re-establish dignity and hope. The voices and views of displaced women, older persons, youth and those with disabilities for example, must be given equal weight to ensure that solutions are appropriate and meet the needs of all. __________________ 11 18/25 Chaloka Beyani, Natalia Krynsky Baal and Martina Caterina, “Conceptual challenges and practical solutions in situations of internal displacement”, Forced Migration, vol. 52 (May 2016). Available from www.fmreview.org/solutions/beyani-baal-caterina.html. 16-13413