The insufficient number of centres and trained teachers, poor remuneration and weak enforcement of standards are among the challenges acknowledged by education authorities.15 Alternatively, some countries arrange for family-based day-care facilities, as occurs in the Colombian Community Mothers programme. Latin America and the Caribbean will experience an increase of more than 70 percent, and Africa and Asia over 60 percent, in the number of older persons by 2030. An already older population puts this figure at 23 percent in Europe.24 In contrast, the demographic transition is at an early stage in most sul>Saharan African countries, so the share of the population over 60 years of age is still, and will continue to be, small. They also include basic income security throughout the lifecycle, including for persons with disabilities.