A/RES/67/143
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
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Reaffirms the Political Declaration1 and the Madrid International Plan of
Action on Ageing, 2002;2
Welcomes the holding of the global segment of the second cycle of review
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and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action during the fifty-first session of the
Commission for Social Development, in 2013, and looks forward to the contribution
that it could make to the work of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing;
Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity to
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eradicate poverty among older persons, in particular older women, by
mainstreaming ageing issues into poverty eradication strategies and national
development plans, and to include both ageing-specific policies and
ageing-mainstreaming efforts in their national strategies;
Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to develop national
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capacity to address their national implementation priorities identified during the
review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action, and invites Member States that
have not done so to consider a step-by-step approach to developing capacity that
includes the setting of national priorities, the strengthening of institutional
mechanisms, research, data collection and analysis and the training of necessary
personnel in the field of ageing;
Also encourages Member States to overcome obstacles to the
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implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action by devising strategies that take into
account the entirety of the human life course and foster intergenerational solidarity
in order to increase the likelihood of greater success in the years ahead;
Further encourages Member States to place particular emphasis on
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choosing national priorities that are realistic, sustainable and feasible and have the
greatest likelihood of being achieved in the years ahead and to develop targets and
indicators to measure progress in the implementation process;
Invites Member States to identify key priority areas for implementation
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of the Madrid Plan of Action, including empowering older persons and promoting
their rights, raising awareness of ageing issues and building national capacity to
address ageing;
Recommends that Member States increase efforts to raise awareness of
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the Madrid Plan of Action, including by promoting and supporting initiatives to
advance a positive public image of older persons and their multiple contributions to
their families, communities and societies, working with the regional commissions
and enlisting the help of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat in
seeking increased attention for ageing issues;
Encourages Governments that have not done so to designate focal points
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for handling follow-up of national plans of action on ageing, and also encourages
Governments to strengthen existing networks of national focal points on ageing;
10. Invites Governments to conduct their ageing-related policies through
inclusive and participatory consultations with relevant stakeholders and social
development partners, in the interest of developing effective policies creating
national policy ownership and consensus-building;
11. Recommends that Member States enhance their capacity to more
effectively collect data, statistics and qualitative information, disaggregated when
necessary by relevant factors, including sex and disability, in order to better assess
the situation of older persons and to set adequate monitoring mechanisms for
programmes and policies geared towards protecting the full and equal enjoyment of
all human rights and fundamental freedoms by older persons;
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