A/HRC/41/32 build upon the expertise acquired through the road map project and will be designed to integrate the objectives of the 2030 Agenda and its Goals. 18. In 2017, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) convened the Fourth Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean, which resulted in the adoption of the Asunción Declaration “Building inclusive societies: ageing with dignity and rights”. During the Conference, the participating Governments reaffirmed their commitment to promoting, protecting and respecting the human rights, dignity and fundamental freedoms of all older persons and requested ECLAC to strengthen its activities relating to ageing and older persons’ rights in order to help Governments in the region to adopt measures that ensure the full exercise of all human rights and fundamental freedoms and the dignity of older persons, with the participation of civil society. ECLAC also held expert meetings in Costa Rica in 2018 and in Uruguay in 2019 on ageing and the human rights of older persons within the framework of the 2030 Agenda, during which a series of recommendations were proposed on how to incorporate issues related to older persons into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda from the perspective of equality and human rights. At the country level, ECLAC reported that it provided technical support to Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay for legal reform, the ratification of, and development of a monitoring framework for, the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons, and building capacity within civil society. 19. From 2015 to 2018, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in cooperation with the Economic Commission for Africa, implemented a project under the United Nations Development Account to strengthen the capacity of three countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Malawi and Uganda) to produce and analyse statistical information on older persons for evidence-based policies on ageing and to apply empirical data to formulate, review and adjust national policies on ageing in consultation with civil society and other stakeholders. The project is part of a larger initiative of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs that aims to assist countries in collecting and analysing data on older persons in order to more accurately monitor the changing situation of older persons during the implementation phase of the 2030 Agenda. In February 2019, the Department of Economic and Social Affairs organized an expert group meeting on the theme “Measuring population ageing: bridging research and policy” in Bangkok, in collaboration with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The objectives of the meeting were to discuss key questions relating to the measurement of population ageing, including traditional and new concepts and methods of measurement, and to assess the scope and limitations thereof in terms of supporting national policy design and implementation and the regional and global review of progress made in the achievement of internationally agreed development goals related to population ageing. Experts from governmental and international organizations, research institutions and civil society organizations discussed the applicability of various measures of ageing in different contexts and their potential for changing the image of ageing in societies. 20. The Statistical Commission, at its forty-ninth session, held in March 2018, established the Titchfield Group on ageing-related statistics and age-disaggregated data with the aim of identifying gaps and establishing international standards and methods for the compilation of statistics and data on the major dimensions of ageing and agedisaggregated data across the life cycle. The work of the Titchfield Group will be carried out in collaboration with United Nations bodies and other organizations concerned with various aspects of ageing-related and age-disaggregated statistics. The overall objective of the Titchfield Group is to develop standardized tools and methods for producing both data disaggregated by age and ageing-related data, and to encourage countries to do so, by playing a leading role in the dissemination of good practices across the world and by facilitating collaboration among national statistics organizations. The Titchfield Group will also address issues relating to data on ageing and deficits in the data. 21. In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) provided technical support for the development of national strategies on ageing in Nepal, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Turkey. In 2019, WHO organized a workshop to review the status of implementation of the WHO European and global strategies on ageing and health, during which policy 6