A/RES/52/80 Page 3 10. Invites non-governmental organizations, including those specialized in the question of older persons, to develop programmes and projects for the Year, particularly at the local level, in cooperation, inter alia, with local authorities, community leaders, enterprises, the media and schools, and encourages them to support and participate in the appropriate national coordinating mechanisms; 11. Encourages relevant United Nations funds and programmes and the specialized agencies, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector to support local, national and international programmes and projects for the Year, and also encourages them, in particular the United Nations Development Programme, as well as international financial institutions, to ensure that the concerns and contributions of older persons are integrated into their development programmes; 12. Emphasizes that activities for the Year should be initiated primarily at the national level; 13. Invites national and international development agencies, bodies and international financial institutions to explore feasible approaches to improving the access of older persons to credit training and appropriate technologies for income generation and the participation of older persons in family enterprises, community enterprises and microenterprises; 14. Welcomes contributions by the Commission on the Status of Women on the topic of older women in relation to the Year; 15. Encourages the Secretary-General to allocate sufficient resources for promoting and coordinating activities for the Year, bearing in mind its resolution 47/5, in which it was decided that observance of the Year would be supported from resources of the regular budget for the biennium 1998-1999 and from voluntary contributions; 16. Invites States to consider actively supporting the Secretariat in the preparation and implementation of the projects for the Year, inter alia, through voluntary financial or personnel contributions; 17. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General entitled "Operational framework for the International Year of Older Persons, 1999";6 18. Welcomes the initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the American Association of Retired Persons to collaborate on a worldwide poster competition for the Year, in which artists will portray their vision of "A society for all ages"; 19. Also welcomes the continuing efforts of the Secretariat to promote information exchange for 1999 and beyond, inter alia, through regular publication of the Bulletin on Ageing, and invites the agencies, bodies and programmes of the United Nations system to consider placing special emphasis on the theme "A society for all ages" in their publications, including the Human Development Report; 20. Invites the Office of Communications and Public Information of the Secretariat to consider producing a logo and a press kit as well as an exhibit for the Year, and invites the United Nations Postal Administration to consider producing stamps on the theme "A society for all ages"; 21. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session on the system-wide implementation of the present resolution; 6 A/52/328. /...