Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Aging and Related Activities

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 89 Question of Ageing, published in 1989.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1988–1991

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/45/106

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1991	A/RES/45/106	Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Aging and related activities	—	—
1990	A/RES/44/67	Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Aging and related activities	—	—
1989	A/RES/43/93	Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Aging and related activities	1,322	28%Compare
1988	A/RES/42/51	Implementation of the International Plan of Action on Aging and related activities	998	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Ageing Persons Anniversaries Budget Contributions Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Coordination Within UN System Development Strategies Medium-Term Plan Programme Evaluation Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Resources Mobilization Social Research Staffing Women

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the question of aging;

Welcomes the system-wide approach to issues of ag ing worked out jointly by the concerned agencies and bod ies of the United Nations system at the inter-agency meet ing on system-wide co-ordination of policies and programmes in the feld of aging, held at Vienna on IO and 11 March 1988, and recommends that the next meeting be held to coincide with the second review and appraisal of the International Plan of Action on Aging, in 1989;

Expresses its satisfaction that the International Insti tute on Aging has been established in Malta in co operation with the United Nations and was officially inaugurated by the Secretary-General on 15 April 1988;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly on the activities of the International In stitute on Aging;

Stresses the imperative need to increase the impetus of the implementation of the Plan of Action at national, regional and international levels, and appeals for resources to be provided commensurate with the requirements;

Urges the Secretary-General, in compliance with the views of Member States as reflected in his report, to maintain and strengthen the existing programmes on ag ing and to strengthen the United Nations system-wide co ordination of policies and programmes on aging, with the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs continuing in its role as focal point in the United Nations system for activities relating to aging;

Supports the recommendation made to the Secre tary-General by the Commission for Social Development in its resolution 30/1 of 4 March 1987 that, in preparing the medium-term plan for the period 1990-1995, he should give priority to the careful elaboration of practical strate-

gies to implement the Plan of Action by providing fuller co-ordination of aging activities in the United Nations sys tem and maintaining adequate programme budget alloca tions; 17 8.

Recommends that aging should be considered a pri ority theme in both the proposed medium-term plan for the period starting in 1992 and in the preparation of an in ternational development strategy for the fourth United Nations development decade (1991-2000);

Urges that the staff of the Aging Unit of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs be maintained at levels which will permit the Centre to carry out its mandates as the focal point in the United Nations for all matters relating to aging;

Urges the bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, working in close co-operation with con cerned centres and institutes as well as non-governmental organizations, and utilizing the networking mode of oper ation, to conduct further research and studies in order to assist Member States in developing demographic and socio-economic profiles of their elderly populations, so that ways and means of ensuring the full and effective par ticipation of the elderly in development can be identified;

Requests the Commission on the Status of Women to pay particular attention to the specific problems faced by elderly women and to the discrimination suffered by these women because of their sex and age;

Decides to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the World Assembly on Aging in the plenary General As sembly at its forty-seventh session, in 1992, and requests the Commission for Social Development to include in its second review and appraisal of the implementation of the Plan of Action a draft programme of substantive activities to mark this occasion;

Strongly appeals to Governments and intergovern mental and non-governmental organizations to contribute generously to the United Nations Trust Fund for Aging,

bearing in mind that the Fund is particularly well placed to act as a catalyst for resource mobilization;

Welcomes the Secretary-General's efforts at fnd ing options for the optimal use of the original resources of the Trust Fund for the Promotion of a United Nations Programme for the Aging, which include the formulation of a concerted programme of measures to the year 2000, and the proposal to create a world foundation on aging, which would encourage both the private and the public sector to support the work of t he United Nations system in the feld of aging;

Calls upon the specialized agencies, regional com missions and other funding organizations concerned to continue to support activities relating to the question of aging, in particular by providing assistance for projects that fall within their mandate;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session on the im plementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-fourth session the item entitled "Question of aging".

15 See Report of the World Assembly on Aging. Vienna, 26 July-6August 1982 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.82.1.16), chap. VI, sect. A.

16 A/43/583.

11 A/43/601.

17 See Of icial Records of the f:mnomic and Social Council, 1987,

14 See A/40/256, annex. Supplement No. 7 (E/JlJR7/20), chap. I, sect. D.

20 See resolution 2200 A ( XX I), annex.

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