A/HRC/26/33 Washington, D.C., on 8 May 2013, and in Geneva, on 17 December 2013, at which he highlighted the relevance of the issue of internally displaced persons outside of camps with regard to the priorities of the Committee, and during which Committee members were requested to share relevant experiences with the Special Rapporteur in that regard. He also maintained close collaboration with key United Nations organizations, including OHCHR, UNHCR and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. He engaged in a constructive dialogue with the agencies on, inter alia, current challenges and responses to internal displacement and potential areas of cooperation, at both headquarters and field levels. He also held periodic briefings on thematic and country activities. 22. The Special Rapporteur participated in several activities organized by United Nations agencies, including the regular meetings and annual retreat of the Global Protection Cluster and activities for the promotion of the Kampala Convention. On 18 and 19 April 2013, he participated in a round table on transitions and solutions organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UNHCR and the Government of the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, where international development and humanitarian actors met to review progress and identify ways forward in the response to internal displacement. On 6 June 2013, he attended a thematic seminar of the Global Protection Cluster on “Transitioning from crisis to recovery: the role of protection clusters”. He participated in the annual meeting of Special Procedures in Vienna, held from 24 to 28 June 2013, where he was elected Chairperson of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures for one year. In this context, he participated in the international expert conference on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna +20: Advancing the Protection of Human Rights: Achievements, Challenges and Perspectives 20 Years after the World Conference, held on 27 and 28 June 2013 and organized by the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria, in cooperation with OHCHR, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights and the European Training and Research Centre for Democracy and Human Rights of the University of Graz. He also participated in the highlevel event for the twentieth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action in New York, on 25 September 2013, where he advocated for the inclusion of internally displaced persons in the context of the post-2015 development agenda. 23. The Special Rapporteur organized various events in collaboration with partners and sponsors, including a panel discussion on the margins of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly on the theme “Durable solutions to displacement: development and peacebuilding dimensions”, held on 25 October 2013. The Special Rapporteur also convened a workshop on the theme, “Durable solutions for internally displaced persons: advancing the agenda”, in cooperation with OHCHR, UNHCR, UNDP and the BrookingsLSE Project, on 7 June 2013. 24. At the invitation of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Special Rapporteur participated in a plenary session panel at the UNHCR 2013 protection dialogue on “Protecting the internally displaced: persisting challenges and fresh thinking”, held on 11 and 12 December 2013. He also co-chaired a working group in a dialogue on “Enacting legal instruments and policies to protect internally displaced persons: experiences and lessons”. During the dialogue, participants highlighted the need to fill implementation gaps in the protection of displaced persons, to put internal displacement higher on international, regional and national agendas, and to ensure the involvement of internally displaced persons and host communities in decisions affecting them. Calls were also made for better cooperation between humanitarian and development actors from the early stages of emergency situations, and for inclusion of the needs of internally displaced persons in the post-2015 development agenda. 7