Subject: Working Group on Ageing updates
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 07:48:48 +0000

Dear members of the UNECE Working Group on Ageing,

We hope that our message finds you all well during these challenging times.

We would like to update you today on our ongoing activities with a few upcoming opportunities and requests for your involvement.

Updates:

Bureau Meeting Report: The advance copy of the twelfth Meeting of the Bureau of the Working Group on Ageing that took place virtually on 27 and 28 April 2020 is available  online:
https://www.unece.org/index.php?id=53050

Policy Brief No. 24 on “Ageing in Smart and Sustainable Cities”

Our latest Policy Brief on Ageing No. 24 on the topic of “Ageing in Smart and Sustainable Cities” is available online on our website. We extend our thanks to the Government of France for the French translation which will be available shortly
| https://www.unece.org/population/ageing/policybriefs.html

Policy Seminar on Ageing 2020

Based on your clear preference for the topic (ranked first in 34 out of 37 responses received to our survey), this year’s policy seminar will be on “Older Persons in Emergency Situations: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic”. Visit
the meeting page for more information:
https://www.unece.org/index.php?id=53054. We will soon share the concept note and provisional programme with you.

Resource list on COVID-19 and Older Persons

We continually update this list with resources published by international organizations, research networks and civil society organisations working with and for older persons in the UNECE region. You can access it via this link:

http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/pau/age/Covid-19/Covid19_OlderPersons.pdf

Coming soon…

Survey for the evaluation of the activities of the Population Unit

Our activities to advance intergovernmental work towards the implementation of the 2017 Lisbon Ministerial Declaration and MIPAA/RIS commitments will be evaluated by an external consultant this summer. As part of the evaluation exercise,
the consultant will invite you to provide feedback via a short survey that will be sent to you in July.

We encourage you to participate as your feedback will be important for the evaluator and help us identify ways to improve our inter-governmental activities going forward.

Older Persons in Emergency Situations

Work on the current policy brief on this topic is under way. We have contracted an experienced consultant who is currently preparing an annotated outline identifying different types of emergency situations that will be covered. We will
share this outline with you soon indicating areas on which we invite you to share policy examples. We would like to take the opportunity to thank all those of you who already shared good practice examples.

Guidelines on Mainstreaming Ageing

We are pleased to let you know that we are currently finalizing the first draft of the Guidelines on Mainstreaming Ageing which we will share with you for comments and inputs in July. There will then be a two-month period until early September
for your review in order to leave sufficient time to revise the draft before the Working Group Meeting in November.

With best wishes from all of us in the Population Unit.

Lisa