and reports to encourage governments who have not signed the Kampala Convention and the OAU Refugee Convention to do so as a means of strengthening protection mechanisms. As a way of building support for host countries that are usually strained in terms of capacity and resources, the APRM engages with various partners involved in humanitarian assistance with a view to strengthening collaboration areas with the host country. The review process also undertakes hearings where possible with IDPs and comprehensively analyses policies and programmes in place. Targeted recommendations around the peace and security concerns of women are factored into the recommendations to countries and entities involved in humanitarian assistance. The NPoAs of many countries reveal that countries are responding to highlighted gaps by integrating them as outcome areas and seeking to fund these as priority areas. APRM continually refers to the need for statistics of IDPs and refugees to facilitate planning for the various categories within these populations. The major issues under this section have already been considered under section 2 of the report d) Prevention and Management of Intra and Inter-State Conflicts One of the objectives of this pillar is to encourage countries to formulate strategies for preventing and reducing intra- and inter-state conflicts and promoting sustained peace and security among countries. The APRM works with member states to analyse circumstances that may give rise to conflict and to resolve conflict where it occurs. The reviews probe issues of inequality among groups and/or regions, competition for natural resources and their unfair exploitation, ethnic, religious and other diversities; illicit arms trade, and refugees and IDPs. The reviews also focus on the effectiveness of national and regional mechanisms for conflict prevention and management and the associated roles and capacities. A number of NPoAs indicate responses by countries to APRM recommendations in the area of establishing early warning systems to detect potential sources of conflicts and address underlying causes and respond to these challenges. However, these are mostly not reflective of UNSCR 1325 themes. 74