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(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;
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