A/HRC/13/21 Bosnia and Herzegovina 35. From 11 to 13 November 2009, the Representative carried out a short visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina during which he had the opportunity to discuss the stalled adoption of the revised strategy on the implementation of Annex VII of the Dayton Agreement with the Chairperson of the Presidency and senior officials. Emphasizing that the adoption of a revised strategy would help improve the situation of internally displaced persons, the Representative recommended that obstacles to sustainable returns be removed. While many internally displaced persons still want to return, a large number of traumatized and vulnerable displaced are in need of local integration, including most of the 7,500 internally displaced persons who still live in decrepit collective centres. Conference on Iraqi displacement in Doha 36. The Representative continued to focus on Iraq, which remains the country with the third-largest number of internally displaced persons in the world. From 18 to 19 November 2009, he participated in a two-day conference on Iraqi displacement, organized by the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement in Doha, which brought together representatives from Iraq and other member States in the region, international organizations, NGOs and donors. Now that returns of internally displaced persons and, to a lesser extent, refugees have begun, the Government of Iraq is facing the challenge of creating durable solutions for the displaced. The conference stressed that a comprehensive approach with the committed involvement of development actors and effective coordination mechanisms is needed to bring together humanitarian action, long-term development efforts and initiatives to reinforce security, political stability and good governance. D. Training and capacity-building initiatives 37. The Representative has continued his capacity-building efforts to foster a better understanding of the Guiding Principles and promote sound, rights-based national policies and laws on internal displacement. He has placed emphasis on training officials and other national stakeholders confronted with the challenges of internal displacement on a daily basis. The comprehensive Manual for Law and Policymakers on Protecting Internally Displaced Persons12 and the annual San Remo course on the law of internal displacement that aims to train high-level officials from across the world, and will again be offered in June 2010, have been the cornerstones of these efforts. 38. In 2009, the Representative and the Brookings-Bern Project have continued to hold capacity-building workshops on protection in natural disasters with representatives from the respective regions: Chennai, India (9–10 April 2009), Guatemala City (28–29 May 2009) and Bangkok (18–19 June 2009). III. Internal displacement in 2010: What are the major challenges? 39. During the course of the Representative’s tenure, progress has been made at the international level in shaping the conceptual, institutional and normative frameworks on protecting and assisting internally displaced persons. However, to a large extent, this 12 10 Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, Protecting Internally Displaced Persons: A Manual for Law and Policymakers (October). Full text available at http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/ 1016_internal_displacement.aspx. GE.10-10161