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and by encouraging greater consultation with older persons in the course of
developing, implementing and monitoring poverty eradication plans;
Invites Governments to conduct their ageing-related policies through
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inclusive consultations with relevant stakeholders and social development partners,
in the interest of creating national policy ownership and consensus-building;
Encourages the international community to support national efforts to
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forge stronger partnerships with civil society, including organizations of older
persons, academia, research foundations, community-based organizations, including
caregivers, and the private sector, in an effort to help to build capacity on ageing
issues;
Invites Governments that have not done so to designate focal points for
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handling follow-up of national plans of action on ageing;
Calls upon Governments to promote a bottom-up participatory approach
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throughout the entire implementation process;
Encourages the international community to support national efforts to
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provide funding for research and data-collection initiatives on ageing in order to
better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing
and provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information on
gender and ageing;
Stresses the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in
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order to promote and facilitate implementation of the Madrid International Plan of
Action on Ageing, 2002, 5 and in this connection encourages Governments to support
the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing to enable the Department of Economic
and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to provide expanded assistance to countries,
upon their request;
Recommends that ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed
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development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, 6 take into account the situation of older persons;
9.
Takes note of Commission for Social Development resolution 44/1,3 in
this context invites Member States to undertake an initial identification of actions
they have taken since the Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002 as well as
policy recommendations for the further implementation of the Madrid Plan of
Action, and encourages regional commissions to identify modalities for
conducting the regional review and appraisal, including best practices, with the
aim of presenting this information to the Commission at its forty-fifth session in
2007;
10. Recommends to the Economic and Social Council the integration of
ageing into the monitoring, review and appraisal exercises of other major
international development initiatives and policy frameworks, including the United
Nations Millennium Declaration, the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development, 7 the Copenhagen Declaration on
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5
Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication,
Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.
6
See resolution 55/2.
7
Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.
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