Second Review and Appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002

E/RES/2013/29View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 14b Social development, published in 2013.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2013–2023

This is an older version — the most recent is E/RES/2023/15

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2023	E/RES/2023/15	Fourth review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002	3,377	58%Compare
2018	E/RES/2018/6	Third review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002	2,178	47%Compare
2013	E/RES/2013/29	Second review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002	1,504	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

2 reports · 2019–2024

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2024	E/CN.5/2025/5	Modalities for the 5th review and appraisal of the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002 report of the Secretary-General		E/RES/2023/15
2019	E/CN.5/2020/4	Modalities for the 4th review and appraisal of the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002 report of the Secretary-General		E/RES/2018/6

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Ageing Capacity Building Policy Making

What’s in this document?

22 operative paragraphs

Recognizes the successful conclusion of the second review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002,Error: Reference source not found and its results at the international, regional and national levels, and also recognizes that major challenges faced by older persons that undermine their social, economic and cultural participation remain, inter alia, age discrimination, abuse and violence, and access to age-appropriate health-care services, social protection measures and labour markets;

Expresses concern that ageing has not always received adequate attention and that older persons often remain confronted by poverty and social exclusion;

Encourages Member States to continue their efforts to mainstream ageing into their policy agendas, bearing in mind the crucial importance of family intergenerational interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development and the realization of all human rights for older persons, and to promote social integration and the prevention and elimination of age discrimination, including by highlighting a gender perspective;

Also encourages Member States to promote the understanding of ageing as an issue of concern to society as a whole, through education at all levels, in order to combat negative stereotypes and discrimination against older persons;

Further encourages Member States to consider including in their national strategies, inter alia, policy implementation approaches such as empowerment and participation, gender equality, awareness-raising and capacity development, and such essential policy implementation tools as evidence-based policymaking, mainstreaming, participatory approaches and indicators;

Encourages Member States to strengthen efforts to develop their national capacity to set priorities and address the national implementation priorities identified during the review and appraisal exercise, bearing in mind the specific needs of older persons in natural disasters and emergencies, including through the strengthening of institutional mechanisms, research, data collection and analysis and the training of necessary personnel in the field of ageing;

Calls upon Member States to adopt appropriate measures, including, if necessary, legislative measures to promote and protect the rights of older persons and measures aimed at providing economic and social security and health care, while considering the Madrid Plan of Action and mainstreaming a gender perspective, the full participation of older persons in the decision-making process affecting their lives, and ageing with dignity;

Encourages Member States to support the national and international research community in developing studies on the impact of the Madrid Plan of Action on older persons and national social policies;

Also encourages Member States to address the well-being and adequate health care of older persons, and recognizes that the incidence and impacts of non-communicable diseases can be largely prevented or reduced with an approach that incorporates evidence-based, affordable, cost-effective, population-wide and multisectoral interventions;

Invites Member States to set time-bound benchmarks for action at the national level based on the shortcomings and priorities identified at the national and regional levels of review and appraisal, in order to enhance implementation;

Also invites Member States to establish and/or strengthen partnerships with civil society organizations and organizations of older persons in order to improve their national capacity for policy formulation, implementation and monitoring in the area of ageing;

Calls upon Member States to continue to participate effectively in the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action through, inter alia, improving data collection and sharing ideas, information and good practices;

Stresses the need for additional capacity-building at the national level guided by each country’s needs in order to promote and facilitate the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, and in this connection encourages Member States to support the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing in order to enable the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to provide expanded assistance to countries, upon their request;

Invites Member States as well as all other major national and international stakeholders to continue their cooperation with the Department, as the United Nations global focal point on ageing, in further implementing the Madrid Plan of Action;

Acknowledges the essential contributions of the United Nations regional commissions to the implementation, review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action, including the organization of regional review and appraisal meetings and the preparation of their outcome documents, and calls upon the Secretary-General to strengthen the work of the regional commissions, including their focal points on ageing, to enable them to continue their regional implementation activities;

Invites its functional commissions, within their mandates, to consider mainstreaming ageing issues, including by taking up ageing as an emerging issue in their programmes of work, as appropriate, bearing in mind the importance of improving United Nations coordination and strengthening capacity-building, where needed, in order to improve the situation of older persons;

Invites all relevant United Nations entities that can contribute to advancing the situation of older persons to, within their respective mandates, give greater priority to addressing the needs and concerns of older persons, while maximizing synergies;

Encourages the international community to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve sustainable social and economic support for older persons, including to build capacity on ageing through stronger partnerships with civil society, such as organizations of older persons, academia, research foundations and community- and faith-based organizations, and with the private sector;

Encourages the international community and the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, to support national efforts and 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, practical and specific information and analysis on ageing, gender and disability, such as for policy planning, monitoring and evaluation;

Recommends that the situation of older persons be taken into account in the ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration⁶ and considered in the discussions on the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015;

⁶General Assembly resolution 55/2.

Requests the Secretary-General to follow up on the outcomes of the second review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action, and in particular the relationship between development, social policy and the human rights of older persons to, inter alia, better inform the future work of relevant United Nations entities and bodies, including the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission for Social Development at its fifty-second session, in 2014, a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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