A/HRC/26/33 (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. 21

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