The issues and findings from HelpAge International’s study on older workers in Bangladesh, Peru and Uganda will be discussed at a Decent Work for All Roundtable.

The Roundtable will take place in Prague on 25 June 2009, from 9.30-12.30.

In many developing countries, older people are one of the poorest population groups, in particular where there are no public pension schemes. Worldwide, more than half of older people have no guaranteed minimum income.

Unless action is taken now to improve the situation, 1.2 billion older people will be living without secure incomes by 2050.

Older people who are poor have no choice but to work, usually in the informal sector where they have no legal protection for their rights, access to social protection and formal support networks.

Older people are often excluded from policy and programmes relating to decent work, yet there are millions of older people in developing countries who are working.

The Decent Work for All Roundtable is a side event to the Civil Society Organisations’ Development Effectiveness conference in Prague, organised by the Czech NGDO platform FoRS under the EU Czech Presidency.

Speakers include representatives from:

• Uganda Reached the Aged Association
• Czech Development Agency
• International Labour Organisation, and
• HelpAge International.

Photographs of older people at work by acclaimed photographer Antonio Olmos will be on display.

Lunch and refreshments provided.

Location: Zivot 90, Karolíny Světlé 18, Praha 1 (see map below)

Please RSVP by Friday 19 June by contacting

Alice Livingstone
Tel: +44 20 7278 7778          
Email: alivingstone@helpage.org
                               
or

Kamala Truelove
Tel: +32 2 280 0771              
Email: euoffice@helpage.org 

Location map