Welcome to the

Age-friendly World Newsletter!

In this Newsletter:

• Applications closing soon for MENTOR-AFE (30 May 2018): a mentorship programme to strengthen leadership in age-friendly environments

• Explore our new Interactive Network Map

• Updating your Age-friendly World Member Profiles

• Welcome to our 600th GNAFCC Member: Hamilton, New Zealand!

• Nordic Conference on Age-friendly Cities (15-16 Oct 2018)

Applications closing soon!

MENTOR-AFE: Building leaders for the next decade of age-friendly

cities and communities

Do you have an age-friendly program you'd like some feedback on? Want to accelerate your skills in developing a new age-friendly project? Want to boost your technical expertise in the age-friendly approach? Then sign up for MENTOR-AFE, the Age-friendly Environments Mentorship Programme. This is an exciting global leadership development opportunity that brings potential mentees and mentors together, to build skills that are important for successful age-friendly environments. MENTOR-AFE provides:

• As a Mentee - an opportunity to obtain guidance for specific projects, accelerate your overall skill development, and grow as age-friendly experts with the support of a mentor

• As a Mentor - a space for you to share your knowledge and experience while reinforcing your own leadership and expertise, by developing mentees’ skills to lead, influence and implement age-friendly environments

Applications for both mentees and mentors close 30 May 2018 (Wed).

Click here for further information on the programme and how to apply.

Explore our new interactive map

We have developed a new interactive map to better feature the members of the Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities. The map displays the latest members and links to profile pages of those members, making it easy and user-friendly to explore age-friendly cities and communities around the world.

Explore the map here

Update your profile page!

If you are a member of the Network, one of the best new features of our updated website is the opportunity to showcase your city or community's progress on the WHO Age-Friendly Cycle directly on your member profile page. This not only helps you feature more prominently at the international level, but can also give you opportunities for collaboration with other cities, and allow us to give you the necessary support. 

On your profile page you can share:

• The commitment letter from your mayor or city leadership 

• Your baseline assessment 

• Your strategy and action plan

• Your evaluation 

• Age-friendly practices that you submit, once edited by us, are also shared on your member page

Did you know? New membership certificate

You can also download your new membership certificate directly from your profile page once you login!  

Be a featured member! 

We will be choosing up to 24 completed profiles to highlight on the front page of Age-friendly World over the next year. Make sure your profile is updated by 1 July 2018 to be considered.

Keep your membership

It is a requirement of membership to maintain an updated profile page, to show progress and active participation. We encourage you to login regularly to provide updates. 

How do I update my page?

You can find the guide for updating your profile from your Member's Space. You can access this page when you are logged in, here.

Should you have any questions regarding updates, please do not hesitate to contact us at gnafcc.admin@who.int. 

600!

A warm welcome to Hamilton, New Zealand, for being the 600th member to join the Global Network! Hamilton joins 599 other cities and communities from 38 countries around the world, representing over 190 million people. Hamilton is also the first city to join from New Zealand. 

Read about Hamilton, New Zealand

Learn more about the Network

Nordic Conference on Age-friendly Cities (15-16 October)

We are excited to announce that the Nordic Council of Ministers is hosting the first major conference in the Nordic region focusing on age-friendly cities on 15-16 October 2018. The aim of the conference is to pave the way for establishing a strong Nordic network that can work with these issues in the years to come.

All are welcome to learn more about the conference and register.

About us

Age-friendly World is a World Health Organization website dedicated to promoting age-friendliness around the world. The World Health Organization Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities (GNAFCC) is a global coalition of cities and communities committed to becoming more age-friendly. We currently consist of 600 member cities and communities in 38 countries, covering a population of over 190 million people. 

Submit your news on Age-friendly World or get in touch with us at gnafcc@who.int.