A/HRC/13/63 page 22 Stabilization and Reconstruction Plan for War-Affected Areas and the United Nations Security and Stabilization Support Strategy.40 87. Highlighting the important role of local conflicts over land, the experts recommended establishing community-based land commissions involving traditional leaders, provincial State officials and community representatives or other appropriate dispute resolution mechanisms.41 While the experts are not aware of Government efforts to implement this recommendation, they take note of increased activities of international actors. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has opened an office in Goma and, together with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and MONUC, launched a programme to establish housing, land and property mediation mechanisms in North Kivu and Ituri initially, and subsequently in South Kivu and the Orientale and Katanga provinces. The Norwegian Refugee Council has established community-based land commissions in the Petit Nord region of North Kivu that allow the population to access legal counselling on land disputes and submit specific problems to the commissions for mediation. F. Protecting the rights of the displaced and minorities 88. As a State party to the Protocol on Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons (“Great Lakes Protocol”), adopted at the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is obliged to incorporate the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into its domestic law.42 In their report, the experts recommended that the Government should develop a legislative framework, strategy and plan of action for the implementation of these obligations.43 89. The Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights of internally displaced persons discussed this recommendation with the delegation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at a workshop of member States of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region, which was organized by the Conference’s Secretariat, the Representative and other stakeholders and took place from 9-10 July 2009 in Nairobi. The Congolese delegation expressed its readiness to prepare laws and policies on internal displacement and approved a list of detailed recommendations drawn up by member States delegates on how best to implement the Great Lakes Protocol. 90. When this report was finalized, the Democratic Republic of the Congo did not have either a draft law or draft policy on internal displacement. The experts are not aware that any process has been started to develop a law or policy, or that responsibilities have been clarified within the Government regarding who would be responsible for the drafting process. 40 See S/2009/623, para. 103. 41 A/HRC/10/59, para. 106. 42 E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2. 43 A/HRC/10/59, para. 107.