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<p>The Department for International Development's (DFID) Inclusive Societies department
leads the Department's work on ageing. The Minister of State, Rory Stewart, has responsibility
for Inclusive Societies department’s work.</p><p>Many DFID programmes reach and include
older people, for example on health systems strengthening and eye care, or specific
programmes for the poorest including supporting slum dwellers in Tanzania or supporting
widows resulting from the Genocide in Rwanda.</p><p>Ageing also features in DFID country
level poverty analyses as a key factor in understanding poverty. In addition to this
DFID is taking a global leadership role to push for better quality and use of age
disaggregated data to ensure that the Sustainable Development Goals leave no one behind.
DFID hosted a series of high profile events on this subject in May and is working
towards the publication of an action plan detailing next steps early in 2017.</p><p>
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