A/70/334 (b) Establish national disaster risk reduction and risk management systems which would have a specific focus on internal displacement; (c) Provide training to all relevant local and subnational authorities, which are often the first to be in contact with internally displaced persons, about international standards regarding internally displaced persons and their obligations to protect the human rights and respond to the needs of internally displaced persons; (d) Appoint an institutional focal point within the Government responsible for overseeing the response; (e) Create an inter-ministerial or inter-agency coordination committee to ensure that there is a common understanding of the internal displacement situation and to set priority areas for each body; (f) Ensure that line ministries review their sectoral laws and policies to ensure that the rights and needs of internally displaced persons and displacement-affected communities are included and adapt these laws and policies accordingly; (g) Ensure that all bodies review their planning and programming under sectoral laws and policies to ensure that internally displaced persons and displacement-affected communities are able to access and benefit from such programmes on an equal basis with the non-displaced population; (h) Ensure that national and local bodies have adequate financial and human resources for the discharge of their responsibilities, with the capacity to adapt and to respond to volatile and ever-changing situations; (i) Strengthen support to local authorities, civil society organizations, volunteers and church groups; (j) Invite the Special Rapporteur or other international mechanism with technical expertise on issues relating to internal displacement in order to benefit from technical cooperation; 95. The Special Rapporteur recommends that national human rights institutions, civil society and volunteers: (a) Establish dedicated expertise on internal displacement, including specialist focal points, units or departments, as appropriate, to maximize their role and effectiveness in predicting, preventing and responding to internal displacement in cooperation with the Government and other national and international stakeholders; (b) Establish local human rights monitoring mechanisms to ensure monitoring across the country. 96. The Special Rapporteur recommends that donor States: (a) Assist States affected by displacement by allocating sufficient funding to support technical cooperation as well as provide other assistance needed in resource mobilization; 15-12504 25/26

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