Stakeholder Group on Ageing
Suggested Changes to Goals and Targets
May 2014
Focus Area 1: Poverty eradication, building shared prosperity and promoting equality
• Target ‘b’: amend to: ‘Reduce the proportion of people of all ages living below national poverty lines by 2030’
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Target ‘c’: amend to: ‘By 2030, implement nationally appropriate universal social protection floors, ensuring coverage of the most marginalised.’
Focus Area 3: Health and population dynamics
• Target ‘c’: amend to: ‘Reduce by x% the risk of avoidable/preventable mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), injuries and promote mental health, with a strong focus on prevention for all people of all ages.’
• Target ‘d’: amend to: ‘Achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection, for all people of all ages.’
• Additional new target ‘i’: By 2030 increase by x years healthy life expectancy at birth and at age 60.
Focus area 4: Education and life-long learning
• Target ‘d”: amend to ‘By 2030 achieve universal youth and adult literacy and numeracy, with particular attention to women of all ages and the most marginalized.’
Focus Area 5: Gender equality and women’s empowerment
• Goal: amend to: ‘Attain gender equality and empowerment of women of all ages everywhere.’
• Target ‘j’: amend to: ‘Promote the availability of gender and age disaggregated data to improve gender equality policies, including gender sensitive budgeting.’
Focus area 8: Economic growth, employment and infrastructure
• Target ‘b’: amend to: ‘Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all people of all ages who seek employment including for marginalised groups by 2030.’
• Additional new target ‘k’: By 2030 people of all ages are provided access to education or vocational training, re-skilling or other means to retain their employability.
Focus area 15: Means of implementation/Global partnership for sustainable development
• Target ‘r’: amend to: ‘Substantially and progressively strengthen national, regional and international capacities for sustainable development data collection, analysis, reporting and utilization with a focus on generating timely and high quality data, disaggregated by age and gender at a minimum.’
