A/HRC/38/39 on internal displacement and identify good practices and opportunities. She sincerely thanks those that responded and will study the information provided to inform her future work and her annual report to the Human Rights Council in 2019, which will be dedicated to the role of national human rights institutions in promoting and protecting the human rights of internally displaced persons. Continuing her engagement with national human rights institutions, during the biannual conference of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions held in Bangkok in November 2017, the Special Rapporteur facilitated a session on the impact of conflict on internally displaced persons and refugees and the role of national human rights institutions. In September 2017, she was a panel speaker at a meeting of the South-East Asia national human rights institutions held in the Philippines and in August 2017, she was a keynote speaker at a national conference on internal displacement organized by the National Commission on Human Rights of Mexico. 7. The Rapporteur further continued her engagement with supporting States and other relevant stakeholders so as to include internally displaced persons in the broader discussions on migration and in particular the negotiations on the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration. She sent out an open letter in March 2018 on the inclusion of internally displaced persons in the global compact, in line with the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. The letter aimed to support Member States to reflect on effective strategies while negotiating and implementing the global compact, in order to ensure adequate protection and assistance for internally displaced persons and to prevent and reduce such displacement in line with the Guiding Principles. 8. The Special Rapporteur led an inter-agency project entitled “Informing responses to support durable solutions for internally displaced persons”, which aimed to measure progress towards durable solutions in internal displacement contexts. The project was implemented by the Joint IDP Profiling Service in collaboration with a broad group of development, humanitarian and peacebuilding actors. This initiative was aimed at operationalizing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee framework on durable solutions for internally displaced persons by developing a set of agreed-upon indicators, tools, methodologies and guidance for comprehensive yet practical approaches to durable solutions in displacement situations. 1 In April 2018, the mandate and the Joint IDP Profiling Service launched the outputs of the project, which stakeholders are encouraged to use. The Special Rapporteur has also been an active member of the Expert Group on Refugee and Internally Displaced Persons Statistics, contributing to the technical report on internally displaced persons statistics, which was adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission at its forty-ninth session in March 2018. 9. The Special Rapporteur also continued to chair the Global Protection Cluster task team on law and policy, supporting capacity-building and providing technical advice to States that are in the process of developing such normative instruments. 10. The Special Rapporteur took part in a number of international and regional conferences and events, including a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg; a seminar on the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (Kampala Convention) organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Nairobi; a regional round table on the domestication of the Kampala Convention co-hosted by the Government of Malawi and ICRC in Lilongwe; a conference on the gender dimensions of internal displacement organized by the Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna; and a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security and on women and internally displaced persons in Manila. The Special Rapporteur also continued to participate as speaker and facilitator at events related to relevant policy research and studies. They included the annual meeting of the Refugee Law Initiative in London; an expert seminar on gender and special procedures on economic, social and cultural rights held at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights; a conference on the role of national human rights institutions in protecting human rights in 1 4 See the durable solutions indicator library, available from http://inform-durablesolutions-idp.org/.