To the National Assembly • Ratify the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa and harmonize Ivorian law with its provisions. • Create a special technical committee, in accordance with the National Assembly bylaws, responsible for examining the root causes of and necessary legislative actions to address land conflict, including land conflict linked to displacement.  Conduct public hearings on the links between land conflict, displacement, and violence and call to testify, among others, experts on rural land tenure, representatives from various ethnic and immigrant populations, customary leaders, local government officials, representatives from civil society, and surveyors. To Donors, including the European Union, France, and the United States • Provide financial and technical assistance to customary and administrative mechanisms in western Côte d’Ivoire involved in resolving claims of land dispossession associated with the post-election crisis. • Fund capacity building for customary and administrative officials involved in resolving land conflicts in western Côte d’Ivoire. Such capacity building should help promote the mechanisms’ ability to act in accordance with international human rights, refugee, and humanitarian law standards. • Provide financial and technical assistance to the Ivorian government in its efforts to demarcate village boundaries. Assist the Agriculture Ministry in increasing its pool of surveyors, through trainings and by embedding experts. “THAT LAND IS MY FAMILY’S WEALTH” 10