A/HRC/41/32 Plan was not sufficient to ensure the full enjoyment by older persons of their human rights, as it had not been designed to comprehensively address existing protection gaps. She nevertheless welcomed the trend towards mainstreaming ageing into legal, policy, social and economic development frameworks, as well as the progress made in increasing awareness of the situation of older persons and fostering the greater participation of older persons at various levels. She further highlighted the need for South-South cooperation and the sharing of good practices at the regional level to guide implementation at the national level, taking into account regional specificities. 10. In 2010, in its resolution 65/182, the General Assembly established the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons. The Working Group is mandated to assess the existing international framework of the human rights of older persons and identify possible gaps and how best to address them, including by considering, as appropriate, the feasibility of further instruments and measures. In 2012, in its resolution 67/139, the Assembly decided that the Working Group, as part of its mandate, would consider proposals for an international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons, and requested the Working Group to present to it, at the earliest possible date, a proposal containing the main elements that should be included in an international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons, which were not addressed sufficiently by existing mechanisms and therefore required further international protection. 11. In recent years, the Working Group has made steady progress, moving into more thematic discussions to identify specific gaps. At its tenth working session, held in April 2019, the Working Group focused on the themes of education, training, lifelong learning and capacity-building and social protection and social security. National human rights institutions have been directly participating in the work of the Working Group since 2017 and increasingly playing an important role in monitoring and providing advice and support for the integration of older persons into the overall human rights protection efforts at the national level and for the sharing of experiences at the regional and global levels through the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions and its regional networks. 12. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015, with its central commitment to leave no one behind, is a transformative development agenda firmly grounded in human rights that offers a comprehensive and integrated vision for sustainable development. The United Nations system is guided by that vision, and supports the implementation of the 2030 Agenda by Member States and all stakeholders through its operational activities to strengthen national capacity. The Sustainable Development Goals represent an important step forward as they contain several Goals that address the rights of older persons, in particular those related to ending poverty, ensuring healthy lives, reducing inequalities and making human settlements inclusive and sustainable (Goals 1, 3, 10 and 11, respectively). Specific references to older persons and age are included in targets related to nutrition, resource use, health care, accessibility, safety and the age-specific collection and analysis of data. The challenge remains to fully integrate the rights of older persons into the implementation of the Goals, including through the voluntary national review process. 13. At present, there is no comprehensive guidance available in the United Nations system on systematically integrating the human rights of older persons into operational activities, including in the current guidance for the preparation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (formerly referred to as the United Nations Development Assistance Framework). Both the United Nations system shared framework for action on equality and non-discrimination, adopted by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination in 2017, 2 and the recent interim draft operational guide for United Nations country teams on leaving no one behind, issued by the United Nations Sustainable Development Group in March 2019, include a recommendation 2 4 See United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination, Leaving No One Behind: Equality and Non-Discrimination at the Heart of Sustainable Development: A Shared United Nations Framework for Action (United Nations, New York, 2017).