A/70/334 on the displacement situation, mapping and tracking the movements of the displaced populations from the onset of the emergency until the achievement of a durable solution and ensuring a continuous flow of information between actors involved in the response. The focal point should also have overall responsibility for ensuring timely identification, registration and profiling of internally displaced persons , in close collaboration with other national bodies and, where necessary, United Nations agencies and other international organizations involved in the humanitarian response. 61. The national institutional focal point has the critical role of planning, managing and coordinating protection-related activities and programmes, including the provision of immediate relief and assistance. While delivery of services on the ground will fall to other designated implementing actors, having an institutional focal point as the sole entity responsible for supervising all the efforts is critical. 2. Establishment of inter-agency mechanisms 62. States could consider establishing an inter-ministerial or inter-agency committee responsible for ensuring a common understanding at the inter-ministerial level of the internal displacement situation, including the challenges facing the different ministries in terms of immediate response and potential obstacles to durable solutions. Such a committee or similar structure should h ave clearly defined roles, functions, responsibilities and channels of communication in relation to the institutional focal point. The institutional focal point has a political and supervisory role whereas the inter-agency body represents the operational side of the response. 63. Such a body could coordinate at the national level the responsibilities of each line agency or ministry. It would also be responsible for maintaining a clear division of institutional roles and responsibilities between government bodies. This body should be composed of representatives of different ministries with sectoral responsibilities for internally displaced persons, key national and international agencies and representatives of internally displaced persons. Such mechanisms ar e essential to ensure holistic, cross-agency responses that recognize, for example, the important relationship between housing and employment and livelihood, which requires cooperation across agencies. 3. Role of line ministries and other bodies with sectoral responsibilities towards internally displaced persons 64. When responding to the needs of internally displaced persons, a number of key ministries are directly concerned as they have sectoral responsibilities. These ministries should be involved in the response from the very onset of the emergency and should be represented in any inter-agency mechanism where their role should be discussed in relation to their sectoral counterparts. During his country visits, the Special Rapporteur has met with line ministries that have direct links to the humanitarian response and are key interlocutors when it comes to the provision of assistance, such as ministries of health, education, labour, social affairs, women ’s affairs, internal affairs and defence. 65. Each relevant ministry and body must increase its focus on and allocate dedicated resources to the specific needs of internall y displaced persons. Line ministries should work in coordination with the institutional focal point and the inter-agency body to implement, according to their mandates, the priorities and 15-12504 17/26