Inclusive Sustainable Development Goals? Making the new agenda work for older people and people with disabilities
Today, Age International willhost an eventin Parliament entitled: Inclusive Sustainable Development Goals? Making the new agenda work for older people and people with disabilities.
The event will take place in Committee Room G House of Lords at 2.30-4.30pm.
The organisation hopes to highlight that by 2030, when the SDGs come to a close, 16.5 per cent of the world’s population will be over the age of 60 – over three-quarters of whom will live in developing countries.
More than 1 billion people worldwide currently live with a disability, 80 per cent of whom live in developing countries.
Baroness Barker and Baroness Jenkin will be in attendance and will be asking what ‘leave no one behind’ means for older people and persons with disabilities, in relation to the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Keynote addresses will be given by Baroness Verma, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, and Elizabeth Stuart, Team Leader, the Sustainable Development Goals – Growth, Poverty Inequality for ODI.
Kate Wedgwood, HelpAge International Director of Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, and Clare Pelham, Chief Executive of Leonard Cheshire Disability will also stimulate debate about the opportunities and challenges of implementing the SDGs.
The event will be facilitated by Chris Roles, Director of Age International, and Professor Nora Groce, Director of the Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre, UCL.
The discourse aims to help MPs prepare for the House of Commons Debate on the SDGs taking place on 10 September.
