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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
by population ageing and to provide policymakers with more accurate and more
specific information on gender and ageing;
39. Recognizes the important role of various international and regional
organizations that deal with training, capacity-building, policy design and
monitoring at the national and regional levels in promoting and facilitating the
implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, and acknowledges the work that is
undertaken in various parts of the world, as well as regional initiatives, and by
institutes such as the International Institute on Ageing in Malta and the European
Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna;
40. Recommends that Member States reaffirm the role of United Nations
focal points on ageing, increase technical cooperation efforts, expand the role of the
regional commissions on ageing issues, continue to provide resources for those
efforts, facilitate the coordination of national and international non-governmental
organizations on ageing and enhance cooperation with academia on a research
agenda on ageing;
41. Reiterates the need for additional capacity-building at the national level
in order to promote and facilitate further implementation of the Madrid Plan of
Action, as well as the results of its review and appraisal cycle, and in this regard
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;
42. Requests the United Nations system to strengthen its capacity to support,
in an efficient and coordinated manner, national implementation of the Madrid Plan
of Action, where appropriate;
43. Recommends that the situation of older persons be taken into account in
the ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals,
including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 5 and be
given due consideration in the elaboration of the development agenda beyond 2015;
44. Notes with appreciation the work of the Open-ended Working Group on
Ageing, established by the General Assembly in paragraph 28 of its resolution
65/182, and recognizes the positive contributions of Member States, as well as
relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations, intergovernmental and
relevant non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions and
invited panellists, during the four working sessions of the Working Group;
45. Invites States and relevant bodies and organizations of the United
Nations system, including relevant human rights mandate holders and treaty bodies
and the regional commissions, as well as intergovernmental and relevant
non-governmental organizations with an interest in the matter, to continue to make
contributions to the work entrusted to the Working Group, as appropriate;
46. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide all necessary
support to the Working Group, within existing resources, for organizing, in 2014, a
fifth working session;
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