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<p>The International Development White Paper, published in November 2023, reaffirms
the goals of the International Women and Girls Strategy 2023-2030. The Strategy adopts
a life course approach, targeting investment to the key life stages for women and
girls to ensure we secure the greatest life-long and intergenerational impacts. Age
is an important dimension in our approach to leave no one behind and ensure inclusion.
The UK engages closely with the UN's open-ended working group on ageing (OEWGA) and
supports UN resolutions on the human rights of older people. The White Paper restates
FCDO's ambition that locally-led women's rights organisations (WROs) should be at
the heart of setting development priorities in their communities. We include age and
disability as considerations in our growing number of partnerships with diverse WROs
globally, including women-led Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs).</p>
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