Action Plans on Ageing: Innovative Policy Tools to Drive Social Progress for All
Date and time: Wednesday, November 5 from 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. (Doha Time)
Location: Qatar National Convention Centre, Room 11, ID 137
This session will spotlight exemplar strategies and action plans dedicated to ageing, share policy considerations to improve future design and implementation of action plans on ageing including practices that engage older persons and civil society organizations in policy design and development, and the session will disseminate promising policies, practices, and programmatic innovations – taking place as a consequence of action plan implementation – globally to support ageing populations.
Across the world, populations are ageing rapidly as fertility and mortality rates decline while life expectancy increases. By 2050, there will be more than 2 billion people aged 60 years or older with a projected nearly 66 percent residing in low-and-middle income countries. This unprecedented demographic transformation is poised to place further fiscal pressure on social protection and health systems, as well as change labor dynamic. This session will spotlight exemplar strategies and action plans dedicated to ageing, share policy considerations to improve future design and implementation of action plans on ageing including practices that engage older persons and civil society organizations in policy design and development, and the session will disseminate promising policies, practices, and programmatic innovations – taking place as a consequence of action plan implementation – globally to support ageing populations.
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