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The operational framework is designed to facilitate mainstreaming and encourage activities within a long-term perspective. Its specific objectives are the following:
To raise awareness, focusing on the society for all ages, the Year’s theme;
To encourage looking ahead, beyond 1999, identifying a vision, priorities and essential processes for the long term;
To reach out to non-traditional actors such as the development community, the media, the private sector and youth;
To improve networking so as to achieve greater consistency and comparability of data and research, and better collaboration among the major global networks that now span every continent.
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