A/HRC/35/27 achieved in a manner fully consistent with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons and through the achievement of durable solutions. Consistent with the World Humanitarian Summit outcomes, the Special Rapporteur will place a strong emphasis on strengthening the engagement of development actors at the earliest phases of humanitarian and displacement crises, on ensuring the participation of internally displaced persons as partners and on seeking to strengthen the capacity and resources available to local civil society partners. 39. The Special Rapporteur will continue and enhance work carried out under the mandate11 to ensure that internally displaced persons are not left behind, including in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. While there is no specific target relating to internal displacement, the Special Rapporteur emphasizes that it is incumbent upon States experiencing internal displacement to establish national implementation programmes and plans that recognize that internally displaced persons are among the most vulnerable populations, who have multiple challenges and needs relating to development priorities — including in the areas of education, health, housing, land, livelihoods and poverty. 40. The Special Rapporteur will continue essential work to promote the development and implementation of legal and policy frameworks that are key to addressing internal displacement at all levels. While her predecessors played a leadership role in developing key international, regional and national frameworks, including the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the IASC Framework on Durable Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons, the Special Rapporteur will prioritize implementation and operationalization of these standards, in close collaboration with national governments, regional mechanisms and other relevant stakeholders. She will advocate for standards to be translated into domestic law and policy and will assist States and other organizations through direct engagement, recommendations, awareness-raising and mobilization of support. In line with this, the mandate holder will continue to co-chair, with UNHCR, the Global Protection Cluster’s task team on law and policy. 41. Moreover, the Special Rapporteur co-hosted, with UNHCR and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, the twelfth Course on the Law of Internal Displacement, held from 14 to 18 November 2016 in San Remo, Italy. The San Remo course has proved to be an excellent opportunity to bring together government authorities involved in protection of internally displaced persons and the Special Rapporteur intends to continue the course as the mandate’s flagship course. 42. The Special Rapporteur emphasizes that 2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and offers an important opportunity to raise awareness of this global standard and of the plight of internally displaced persons in all regions of the world. She will undertake awareness-raising activities and consult with partners to identify activities to mark the anniversary during 2018 at the national, regional and international levels, including side events and other panel discussions organized by the mandate holder in the context of her annual reporting to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. She will encourage national-level activities and commitments in States affected by internal displacement, including steps to incorporate the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into national law and policy for the protection of the human rights of internally displaced persons. 43. At the regional level, the Kampala Convention, the only legally binding regional standard on internal displacement, was adopted in October 2009. The Special Rapporteur will continue to support the African Union by promoting implementation of the Convention, including through the Conference of States Parties, and attended the historic first meeting of the Conference, held in Harare from 3 to 5 April 2017. She emphasized that its establishment was an essential next step towards promoting and monitoring implementation of the Convention. She will engage closely with African States — those visited by her predecessors, and other States — to initiate and extend dialogue and to offer 11 See A/HRC/29/34. 11