A/RES/74/160 Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons 40. Recalls the need to reflect on effective strategies to ensure adequate protection and assistance for internally displaced persons and to prevent and reduce such displacement, and in this regard encourages the Secretary-General to work with Member States and the United Nations system to explore ways to better address the long-term needs of internally displaced persons, support communities that host them and improve the lives of the many millions of internally displaced persons; 41. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Special Rapporteur, from within existing resources, with all assistance necessary to strengthen and carry out her mandate effectively, and encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in close cooperation with the Emergency Relief Coordinator, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Organization for Migration and all other relevant United Nations offices and agencies and related o rganizations, to continue to support and cooperate with the Special Rapporteur; 42. Encourages the Special Rapporteur to continue to seek the contributions of States, relevant organizations and institutions in order to create a more stable basis for her work; 43. Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth and seventy-sixth sessions a report on the implementation of the present resolution; 44. Decides to continue its consideration of the question of protection o f and assistance to internally displaced persons at its seventy-sixth session. 50th plenary meeting 18 December 2019 12/12 19-22287