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Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons
to ensure the safety and security of humanitarian personnel so that they may
efficiently perform their task of assisting internally displaced persons;
27. Emphasizes the central role of the Emergency Relief Coordinator for the
coordination of, protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons, inter alia,
through the inter-agency cluster system, welcomes continued initiatives taken in order
to ensure better protection, assistance and development strategies for internally
displaced persons, as well as better coordination of activities regarding them, and
emphasizes the need to strengthen the capacities of national and local authorities,
United Nations organizations and other relevant actors to meet the immense
humanitarian challenges of internal displacement;
28. Encourages all relevant United Nations organizations and humanitarian
assistance, human rights and development organizations to enhance their collaboration
and coordination through the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and United Nations
country teams in countries with situations of internal displacement and to provide all
possible assistance and support to the Special Rapporteur, and requests the continued
participation of the Special Rapporteur in the work of the Inter -Agency Standing
Committee and its subsidiary bodies;
29. Encourages Member States, humanitarian agencies, donors, development
actors and other providers of development assistance to continue to work together, in
close cooperation with the Special Rapporteur, to provide a more predictable response
to the needs of internally displaced persons, including long-term development
assistance for the implementation of durable solutions, takes note of the decision of
the Policy Committee of the Secretary-General of 4 October 2011 endorsing the
preliminary framework on ending displacement in the aftermath of conflict, notes the
rolling out of the decision in select countries, and calls for United Nations agencies
implementing the decision to cooperate closely with the Special Rapporteur in that
regard and to use the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Framework on Durable
Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons in a manner that complements the decision
of the Policy Committee;
30. Notes with appreciation the increased attention paid to the issue of
internally displaced persons in humanitarian response plans, and encourages further
efforts in this regard;
31. Expresses deep concern at the insufficient funding levels of humanitarian
appeals, and in this respect urges all relevant actors to provide the relevant United
Nations agencies and humanitarian organizations with sufficient and predictable
resources to ensure adequate support for those who are forcibly displaced;
32. Notes with appreciation the increasing role of national human rights
institutions in assisting internally displaced persons and in promoting and protecting
their human rights;
33. Recognizes the need to collect reliable disaggregated data, including data
disaggregated by sex, age and location, on internally displaced persons and the impact
of long-term displacement on host communities in order to improve policy,
programming and response to internal displacement and, in this respect, the relevance
of the inter-agency Joint Internally Displaced Person Profiling Service and the global
database on internally displaced persons maintained by the Internal Displacement
Monitoring Centre;
34. Encourages Governments, members of the Inter-Agency Standing
Committee, United Nations humanitarian coordinators and country teams to ensure
the provision of reliable data on internal displacement situations by collaborating with
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