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(e) Launch an advocacy campaign to raise awareness of the Kampala
Convention and the need to implement it, and to build capacity, financial and
political support and interest from all stakeholders, including donors, to
ensure its implementation;
(f) Establish or strengthen the mechanisms promoting the engagement and
participation of local authorities, communities, civil society organizations and
the private sector in issues relating to internal displacement; community
participation should involve those who are most vulnerable; in particular,
potentially vulnerable groups, such as women, children, older persons and
persons with disabilities, should be fully included in disaster prevention,
response planning and implementation to ensure that their specific needs are
addressed;
(g) Increase the role of parliamentarians in strengthening efforts to ratify and
implement the Convention in their oversight and representative role;
(h) Strengthen the pivotal role of national human rights institutions to improve
national responses to internal displacement, including in awareness-raising,
monitoring of displacement situations and returns, investigating individual
complaints, advocating for and advising Governments on the drafting of
national policies to address internal displacement, and monitoring and
reporting on the implementation of national policies and legislation;
(i) Take the measures necessary to ensure accountability for violations of
applicable international law, including by armed groups and non-State
actors, as a cause of or during displacement;
(j) Promote and facilitate the participation of internally displaced persons in
political, reconciliation and peace processes that affect them, and establish the
conditions necessary to enable them to have access to the durable solution of
their choice and to rebuild their lives at the earliest opportunity, including the
establishment of adequate conflict resolution mechanisms, including in
relation to land disputes and civil status, for example birth registration, and
property title registries, in accordance with the Kampala Convention;
(k) Ensure that the budgetary and structural support necessary is mobilized to
implement the above recommendations.
3.
The international community, the African Union, United Nations agencies, other
humanitarian and development actors, and civil society organizations
88.
All relevant actors should continue to promote and strengthen the work of
regional organizations and mechanisms on all aspects of internal displacement,
including with regard to the development and implementation of regional instruments
and guidance on internal displacement, in accordance with international standards.
89.
United Nations agencies should continue their efforts to keep the issue of
internal displacement firmly on the United Nations agenda; in particular, the
strengthened framework for the protection of and assistance to internally displaced
persons laid out by the Kampala Convention should inform international and regional
responses to relevant crises in Africa, including through the Security Council.
90.
The international community, including United Nations agencies, should ensure
that the issue of internal displacement is addressed in the post-2015 development
agenda.
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