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Recommendations: 1. Set realistic timelines to accomplish DDR work and to attain program goals/objectives. Gain long-term commitments from stakeholders. 2. Diligently work to gain and sustain funding for DDR – to support activities over the entire timeline of the DDR program(s). 3. Place emphasis on, and apply requisite resources to, the reintegration component of DDR. 4. Encourage the host nation and its partners to closely align DDR with SSR and to apply rigor to both. 5. Initiate and sustain international & regional efforts aimed at achieving cooperation and positive action among neighboring countries towards attainment of DDR goals/objectives. Sources: 1. Primary reference: “Demobilizing and Reintegrating Armed Groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” by MAJ Badura Hakimu and Dr. Heather S. Gregg, US Naval Post- graduate School, CTX (Combating Terrorism Exchange), v.8:1, Spring 2018 (June 2018). 2. Other references:   “United Nations led Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo,” by Tristan M. Allen, December 2011 “UN Force Intervention Brigade against the M23,” by David Mosinski, PKSOI, 15 November 2013 Nyabiondo, DRC – 4 April 2008. After agreeing to disarm and repatriate, Rwandan fighters of the FARDC board a UN helicopter headed for a camp in Goma. (Photo credit: UN / Sylvain Liechti) 19