A/HRC/38/39 concern but as a human rights and development priority internationally and at the national level is an essential component of achieving the goal of reducing internal displacement through durable solutions. 62. The Guiding Principles envisage a collective and holistic response to internal displacement that involves Governments as the primary duty bearers and humanitarian and development agencies coming together from the outset of displacement on the basis of collective goals and outcomes. Inspired by the Guiding Principles, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee framework on durable solutions elaborates on the need for development actors and approaches to meet the challenges of internal displacement. Important steps are being taken to achieve the engagement of development actors in practice, while much more remains to be done in that respect and it will be vital to move towards a culture of collective outcomes. 63. The “New Way of Working” 16 was based on the overwhelming message from stakeholders at the World Humanitarian Summit, who identified the need to strengthen humanitarian-development cooperation and overcome long-standing attitudinal, institutional and funding obstacles. Transcending the humanitarian-development divide by working towards collective outcomes was widely supported by donors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and crisis-affected States. The New Way of Working frames the work of development and humanitarian actors, along with their national and local counterparts, in support of collective outcomes that reduce risk and vulnerability and serve as instalments toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. 17 Promoting localized responses and empowering victims and NGOs, as envisaged under the New Way of Working, also has the potential to create new dynamics of support and innovative new recovery initiatives for internally displaced persons. 64. The New Way of Working, as envisaged by the humanitarian and development community in partnership with the United Nations and national authorities, can help to achieve significant progress in meeting the challenge of reducing internal displacement in line with the Guiding Principles. A key element of that change is to engage affected persons differently, for them to be more than passive beneficiaries but rather active agents and partners in their own recovery, building on their existing capacities, skills, resilience and coping mechanisms, and their potential for recovery when empowered to do so. Based on a detailed knowledge of the situation, needs and capacities of internally displaced populations derived from enhanced profiling methodologies, humanitarian and development funds and resources should be employed to support resilience and recovery programmes, and break the cycle of aid dependency. 65. There is a need to better leverage existing international policy agendas and commitments in favour of internally displaced persons. In recent years the issue of internal displacement has featured in several policy agendas and frameworks, including the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the twenty-first Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the New Urban Agenda, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and global compacts on refugees and migrants, and the SecretaryGeneral’s agenda on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, among others. However, further impetus is needed to translate the many affirmations and commitments on internally displaced persons made in these forums into concrete progress on the ground and to maintain and enhance the momentum built around these processes. 16 17 See www.agendaforhumanity.org/sites/default/files/20170228%20NWoW% 2013%20high%20res.pdf. See www.unocha.org/sites/unocha/files/NWOW%20Booklet%20low%20res.002_0.pdf. 15