A/HRC/35/27 25. The Special Rapporteur will continue to seek and conduct country visits in all regions to gather first-hand information on the situation of internally displaced persons and to engage directly and constructively with national authorities and other stakeholders. She will give high priority to those States with the most critical, challenging and persistent displacement situations, while also seeking visits based on her thematic priorities. She has sent initial requests for visits 3 and encourages States to respond positively. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the positive responses received to date from the Government of El Salvador and the Government of Guatemala for her to conduct visits in 2017 and 2019 respectively. In conformity with the practice of the mandate, she will also conduct working visits4 and follow-up visits, at the invitation of a variety of stakeholders, including United Nations agencies, to consider internal displacement issues and to engage with a range of actors, including national authorities. 26. The Special Rapporteur will continue and strengthen the existing cooperation established between the mandate and United Nations organizations. She will continue to participate in and actively contribute to the work of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) as a Principal, and will work to provide it with guidance and support on the subject of internally displaced persons. To that end, she participated in her first IASC Principals’ meeting in Geneva on 6 December 2016, which will be followed by the IASC Principals’ retreat scheduled for 28 April 2017. Moreover, she took part in an IASC Working Group meeting held in Rome on 5 and 6 April 2017, in which she provided an update on activities under a joint project between the Special Rapporteur and the Joint IDP Profiling Service5 and in collaboration with a broad group of development, humanitarian and peacebuilding actors 6 to operationalize the IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons. The project is aimed at developing tools, methodologies and guidance, for shared and comprehensive yet practical approaches to durable solutions analysis in displacement situations. 27. The Special Rapporteur welcomes the support provided to her mandate by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Equally, in the conduct of her activities and country visits, she will continue to collaborate closely and systematically with United Nations country teams, and to work closely with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The collaboration between the mandate and these key United Nations entities has proved highly effective, notably in the context of country visits undertaken, during which they have provided invaluable support, assistance, and information. The Special Rapporteur thanks them for their continuing support for her work and looks forward to continuing and strengthening this collaboration. 3 4 5 6 8 To date, country visits have been requested to Bangladesh, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Malawi, Mexico and Nepal. Such working visits will not normally trigger a report to the Human Rights Council unless this is explicitly agreed to by the State concerned. The Joint IDP Profiling Service is an inter-agency service that was set up in 2009. Based in Geneva, its mission is to support governments and humanitarian and development actors in designing and implementing collaborative profiling exercises. Working primarily in situations of internal displacement, the Service seeks to promote a culture of evidence-based decision-making in displacement situations. Provided both on-site and remotely, the Joint IDP Profiling Service tailors its support to needs on the ground and enhances in-country profiling capacity-building to generate locally owned, impactful and agreed-upon data. To learn more about the Service and its work, visit www.jips.org/en/home. The Technical Steering Committee, comprising a broad group of partners that support durable solutions to displacement. Its members include the Danish Refugee Council, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the International Organization for Migration, Feinstein International Center/Tufts, the Norwegian Refugee Council, the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, members of the Solutions Alliance Research, Data and Performance Management Group, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNHCR, the World Bank, Displacement Solutions Platform and the Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat.