Follow-Up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing

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Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 60d Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing, published in 2007.

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?

11 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 by encouraging greater consultation with older persons in the course of developing, implementing and monitoring poverty eradication plans;

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;

Invites Governments that have not done so to designate focal points for handling follow-up of national plans of action on ageing;

Calls upon Governments to promote a bottom-up participatory approach throughout the entire implementation process;

Encourages the international community 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 provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information on gender and ageing;

Stresses the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in order to promote and facilitate implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002,⁶ 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;

⁶Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.

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

⁷See resolution 55/2.

Takes note of Commission for Social Development resolution 44/1,Error: Reference source not found in this context invites Member States to undertake an initial identification of actions they have taken since the Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002 as well as policy recommendations for the further implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, and encourages regional commissions to identify modalities for conducting the regional review and appraisal, including best practices, with the aim of presenting this information to the Commission at its forty-fifth session in 2007;

Recommends to the Economic and Social Council the integration of ageing into the monitoring, review and appraisal exercises of other major international development initiatives and policy frameworks, including the United Nations Millennium Declaration, the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development,⁸ the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development,⁹ the Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development¹⁰ and the Beijing Platform for Action¹¹ and their follow-up processes;

⁸Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo, 5–13 September 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.95.XIII.18), chap. I, resolution 1, annex.

⁹Report of the World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 6–12 March 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.8), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.

¹⁰Ibid., annex II.

¹¹Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4–15 September 1995 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.96.IV.13), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session on the implementation of the present resolution, including information on the commemoration of the five-year review and appraisal of the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action in 2007.

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