A/HRC/29/34 States, donors and civil society gathered in Copenhagen to discuss solutions to protracted displacement and its management. On that occasion, it was emphasized that the displacement of refugees and IDPs presents significant development opportunities and challenges, in addition to the humanitarian needs and the humanitarian ‘imperative’”.8 31. In recent years, some development actors have increasingly paid attention to IDPs. In 2012, the World Bank developed Guidelines for Assessing the Impacts and Costs of Forced Displacement in order to meet the need for enhanced understanding and evaluation of the economic and social aspects of forced migration. In a more recent report of the Global Program on Forced Displacement of the World Bank, Political Economy and Forced Displacement: Guidance and Lessons from Nine Country Case Studies, a political economy analysis was used as a tool to demonstrate the development impacts of displacement and to advance arguments for development initiatives to assist IDPs and host communities. 32. The positive achievements of the Millennium Development Goals demonstrate that significant progress by States is possible, in collaboration with international development partners. Lessons can be learned, for example, from what has been achieved in poverty reduction and providing access to education in the least developed countries. However, lessons must also be learned about where and why the Goals failed to benefit the poorest and most vulnerable groups. It is essential to intensify efforts to reach those individuals, communities and population groups, including IDPs, who have been bypassed, neglected or failed. 33. Despite the explicit commitments made in the United Nations Millennium Declaration to protect the vulnerable and “to help all refugees and displaced persons to return voluntarily to their homes, in safety and dignity and to be smoothly reintegrated into their societies”,9 millions of IDPs globally are amongst those who were left behind as others were brought out of poverty. All durable solutions, not just return, but also local integration or settlement elsewhere within the country, must be considered as options available to IDPs. They all require the involvement of development processes, strategies, and actors for their achievement. 34. Over the Millennium Development Goal period, millions of people in numerous countries have been plunged into extreme poverty and vulnerability as a direct result of internal displacement. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report 201410 acknowledges that “every day in 2013, 32,000 people had to abandon their homes to seek protection due to conflict”. The number of newly displaced persons11 has tripled since 2010, representing a significant setback to achievements under the Goals and demonstrating a disturbing trend towards increasing displacement that must be recognized in the post-2015 development agenda. C. Towards greater attention to internally displaced persons in the post-2015 development agenda 35. The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals released its proposal on sustainable development goals in August 2014. The proposed goals are: (1) 8 9 10 11 Roger Zetter, “Reframing displacement crises as development opportunities”, policy brief prepared for the Global Initiative on Solutions Copenhagen Roundtable, 2 and 3 April 2014, p. 1. General Assembly resolution 55/2, para. 26. Available from www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2014%20MDG%20report/MDG%202014%20English.pdf. Displaced internally or across international borders. 9