A/71/279 Framework on Durable Solutions, and their implementation is poor. A new era of capacity-building and operationalizing existing norms is required to increase awareness among national authorities responsible for upholding them and the wider populations who they exist to protect. Respecting and ensuring respect for such norms by non-state armed groups and terrorists is now more important than ever before. 36. Incorporating the Guiding Principles into regional human rights frameworks remains much needed. African States and the African Union have shown leadership, while much work remains to ensure that the Kampala Convention is ratified by all African States and implemented, including by establishing a confer ence of States parties. Creating such a mechanism will galvanize action and promote implementation of the Convention. It could develop tools, programmes and resources to allow it to be a regional authority on internal displacement that is able to provide practical assistance to States and foster regional solidarity to confront the challenges, including conflicts, disasters and climate change. 37. In his report for the World Humanitarian Summit ( A/70/709), the SecretaryGeneral stated that such “instruments and policies should be developed and applied in other regions and countries”, making a strong call for further normative development. The Special Rapporteur urges other regional and subregional intergovernmental bodies to commit to processes leading to the adoption of new regional standards on the human rights and protection of internally displaced persons, with monitoring and advisory bodies in place as key regional tools to tackle internal displacement. 38. In Africa, the evolution of a regional framework for internally displaced persons has helped to clarify the roles and responsibilities of States. The Kampala Convention requires States to incorporate its provisions into domestic law and to designate an authority responsible for coordinating activities aimed at protecting and assisting internally displaced persons and assign responsibilities to appropriate organs, including cooperation with international organizations or agencies. Ratifying States must adopt measures, strategies and policies on internal displacement at the national and local levels, taking into account the needs of host communities. They must provide funds for protection and assistance and incorporate principles of the Convention into peace negotiations and agreements aimed at finding sustainable solutions to internal displacement. 39. These requirements have resulted in a higher and increasing level of legal, policy and institutional developments in the African region. Numerous countries, including some in Europe, Asia and Latin America, have also adopted or are in the process of drafting national laws and policy documents on internal displacement. This is a positive trend but one which should be greatly enhanced as a measure of preparedness across all States in all regions. National laws and policies provide legal guarantees to internally displaced persons that are essential to the protection of their rights in practice, as well as establishing a legal framework for the allocation of budgets and funds dedicated to their assistance. C. Leaving no one behind 40. The message of leaving no one behind has been at the core of international processes to address deficits in development and humanitarian action, including the 16-13413 11/25