A/HRC/23/44 exacerbated gender inequality and reduced access to education and livelihood opportunities.65 53. The Hyogo Framework for Action 2010-2015 requires Member States to incorporate gender perspectives into all disaster risk management processes, plans and policies (para. 13 (d)). However, there has been relatively little success to date in mainstreaming gender and women’s health considerations in these policies and processes, and when they have been integrated they have mainly been portrayed as victims rather than actors.66 Given that natural disaster-induced displacement is expected to become more severe in future, issues such as the role of women in early warning systems and women’s full participation in the development and implementation of gender-sensitive disaster preparedness and response strategies therefore merit more concerted attention. IV. Conclusions and recommendations 54. Important steps have been taken over the past decades to improve international and national responses to the diverse assistance, protection and durable solution challenges faced by IDW. Yet too often, discussions of these issues remain perfunctory, failing to recognize and actively engage IDW and perpetuating inadequate responses to their concerns. In the light of these dynamics, and in line with the Guiding Principles and other relevant standards, the Special Rapporteur makes the following recommendations: A. General recommendations to national and international stakeholders 1. States: 55. In accordance with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, ensure that national laws and policies provide comprehensive protection for IDW; 56. Initiate gender-sensitive budgeting processes that ensure allocation of adequate resources to the needs and priorities of IDW; 57. Support initiatives to increase the capacity of officials, particularly at local level, to adopt gender-sensitive approaches to policymaking, planning, budgeting and programme implementation on IDP issues; 58. Provide gender-sensitive training to police, military forces, judiciary and social workers, including on preventing and addressing SGBV in displacement situations; 59. Recruit, train and deploy greater numbers of female police and military personnel at national level in countries experiencing internal displacement, as well as in United Nations peacekeeping operations; 60. Ensure prompt documentation to IDW; 65 66 and equitable provision of all necessary personal IPCC, Martin Parry et al. (eds.), Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (Cambridge University Press), sect. 9.7; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk and poverty in a changing climate. UNISDR, Global Assessment Report, p. 14; International Union for Conservation of Nature, Draft Guidelines to Mainstreaming Gender in the Development of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) (2011). 19