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<p>Age features as part of our efforts to leave no one behind and in country level
analyses as a key factor in understanding poverty.</p><br /><p>Older people have been
specifically included in the Sustainable Development Goals on ending hunger, creating
sustainable cities and communities and the means of implementation. As well as this,
the requirement to provide disaggregated data to evidence progress against the Sustainable
Development Goals will ensure that governments and development agencies can identify
those at risk of being left behind and design programmes to lift them out of poverty.
The UK was a key player in achieving these goals.</p><br /><p>Many DFID programmes
reach and include older people, for example on health systems strengthening, eye care,
or specific programmes for the poorest including supporting slum dwellers in Tanzania,
or supporting widows resulting from the genocide in Rwanda. DFID has also supported
Governments to establish social pensions for older people to ensure that they do not
live in poverty.</p><br /><p>Finally, DFID also continues to fund a number of age-specific
development programmes which are delivered by Civil Society Organisations in some
of the world’s poorest communities to ensure that older people are not left behind.</p>
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