The situation of internally displaced persons is very specific and requires a very specific type of response, because we're talking about citizens or permanent residents of a country who become displaced as a result of one or several possible factors. Armed conflict and generalized violence constitute some of the possible causes of displacement. A person who is displaced by another type of violent event that doesn't qualify as a generalized violence situation or an armed conflict does not qualify as an IDP.
The first response that needs to come to IDPs has to come from the national government. We're talking about citizens of a country where national legislation, national protection and assistance mechanisms need to kick in. There's very little, in fact, that an outside government can do to reintegrate individual IDPs or find a solution for them.
The type of support that's needed from the international community—in the context of a government that is unwilling or unable to respond—is first and foremost humanitarian assistance to provide the basic services that many of these IDPs lack in the immediate crisis context. Over the longer term it's the kind of longer-term development assistance—through education, new jobs, shelter options, legal recourse in certain cases, compensation, etc.—that will bring about the conditions that will gradually enable an IDP to find what we call a durable solution and to no longer be displaced. However, that's a much longer-term process that has to be led at the national level, and that of course requires international financial support.
In certain cases we are also advocating for international partners to [Inaudible—Editor] IDP return processes so that the immediate condition, let's say, of displacements can be addressed, but even these return processes have to be accompanied by the right kind of development and socio-economic assistance so that over time we can hope to see an end to displacements.
I hope that answers your question. Resettlement and reintegration have to be managed at the national level by a functioning national government.