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responsibilities are specified as overall mission success criteria and
performance benchmarks for which heads of mission are directly accountable.
78. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations-Department of Field
Support child protection policy directive is critical to ensuring that United
Nations peacekeeping operations effectively implement child protection
resolutions and other recommendations of Member States and its
implementation should be further reinforced. The Department of Field Support
is also encouraged to co-sign the directive to ensure consistent guidance to all
United Nations peacekeeping operations and relevant special political missions.
79. The General Assembly, particularly in the context of the work of the Fifth
Committee, the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary
Questions and the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, should
continue to support adequate budgetary provision for the deployment of child
protection advisors to United Nations peacekeeping and political missions to
ensure effective implementation of resolutions and mandates on child
protection.
80. Member States are urged to ensure that child protection aspects are also
explicitly reflected in relevant peacebuilding mandates and in the work of the
Peacebuilding Commission through its country configurations, and that
adequate provision is made for child protection expertise in peacebuilding
missions.
81. Taking into account the changing nature of conflict and consequently the
diverse experience and circumstances of children associated with armed forces
and groups, key stakeholders, including UNICEF, other United Nations actors
and child protection NGOs are encouraged to continue to review existing
conceptual frameworks and programmes for child rehabilitation and
reintegration with a view to rendering such interventions more timely, effective
and sustainable.
82. Member States, bearing the primary duty and responsibility for
addressing internal displacement, should abide by their obligations under
international law and adhere to the Guiding Principles on Internal
Displacement. This includes as provided for in the rights and guarantees for
internally displaced children, safeguarding populations on their territory from
arbitrary displacement; provision of protection and assistance to those who
have been displaced; and supporting and facilitating voluntary, safe and
dignified solutions to displacement, particularly as regards children.
83. Member States and relevant United Nations entities are urged to ensure
that United Nations-led and regional mediation processes prioritize the
protection of children at all stages of peace processes and that ceasefire and
peace agreements include specific child protection provisions. Child protection
elements should be routinely included in guidance materials for mediators, in
mediation training programmes and in development of mediation tools, and
modalities should be established for regular briefings and exchange between
child protection actors and mediators and mediation support focal points.
84. In view of continued concerns regarding the detention of children,
Member States are urged to ensure that such measures are in line with the
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile
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