Follow-Up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing

A/RES/62/130View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 62c Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing, published in 2008.

What other versions does this mandate have?

23 versions · 2003–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/179

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/179	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	6,065	95%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/147	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	5,849	87%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/177	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	6,041	91%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/190	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	5,815	94%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/138	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	5,464	83%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

20 reports · 2006–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/212	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/179
2025	A/80/147	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/147
2024	A/79/157	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/177
2023	A/78/134	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/190
2022	A/77/134	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/138

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity to eradicate poverty among older persons, particularly 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 review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002Error: Reference source not found and in their national strategies;

Stresses that, in order to complement national development efforts, enhanced international cooperation is essential to support developing countries in implementing the Madrid Plan of Action, while recognizing the importance of assistance and the provision of financial assistance;

Calls upon Member States to actively take part in the participatory bottom-up approach of the review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action, through, inter alia, sharing ideas, data collection and best practices and reporting on them to the Commission for Social Development at its forty-sixth session in 2008;

Encourages the United Nations regional commissions to consolidate the national findings of the review and appraisal by involving, inter alia, representatives of organizations of older persons from various regions that are directly involved in the participatory bottom-up review and appraisal exercise;

Invites Governments to conduct their ageing-related policies through 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 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;

Encourages the international community and the relevant agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, to support national efforts to provide funding for research and data-collection initiatives on ageing in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and to provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information on gender and ageing;

Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to develop national capacity to address their national implementation priorities identified during the review and appraisal exercise, 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;

Stresses the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in order to promote and facilitate implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, 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;

Calls upon Governments to ensure, as appropriate, conditions that enable families and communities to provide care and protection to persons as they age and to evaluate improvement in the health status of older persons, including on a gender-specific basis, and to reduce disability and mortality;

Reiterates that ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,⁷ should take into account the situation of older persons;

⁷See resolution 55/2.

Recommends to the Commission for Social Development to include in the deliberations of its forty-sixth session in 2008 the outcomes of the first cycle of the review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action, including identifying progress made and obstacles encountered during the first five years of the implementation process;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution and to submit to the Commission for Social Development at its forty-seventh session a report on the analysis of the conclusions of the first review and appraisal exercise, including a strategic implementation framework based on an analysis of national activities since 2002, in order to provide identification of policy priorities for the future and the identification of measures for international cooperation to support national implementation activities.

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