BTC is the Belgian development agency. We support development projects across the globe to eradicate poverty. The Sustainable Development Goals are the global framework for BTC's support to different countries around the globe. Our activities focus on fragile states and the least developed countries, primarily in Africa.
The report shows that, although gender is one of the most significant social determinants of health outcomes, the global health community remains largely gender-blind. This holds true both in ensuring gender parity in leadership across public, private and civil society organisations and in delivering gender-responsive programmes.
This publication results from the joint research programme “A Global Response to Elder Abuse and Neglect: Building Primary Health Care Capacity to Deal with the Problem Worldwide” undertaken by the World Health Organization Ageing and Life Course Programme (WHO/ALC) and the Center for Interdisciplinary Gerontology at the University of Geneva (CIG-UNIGE). The project was initiated and supervised by Dr Alexandre Kalache, Coordinator of the WHO Ageing and Life Course unit, and by Professor Charles-Henri Rapin, Adjunct Professor at the University of Geneva/University Hospital of Geneva. Ms Karina Kaindl coordinated the project and wrote this report under the direction of the project supervisors.
