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The needs and capacities of older persons are often overlooked in an emergency response because humanitarian actors do not register their presence or because of their weak socio-economic position...
This document systematically reviews the main risks (defined as potential adverse consequences of a crisis) older people are exposed to in emergency situations. It is intended for humanitarian...
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) Handbook provides minimum standards and guidelines for use in humanitarian emergencies that impact livestock. The handbook helps support the...
Older people have often been overlooked in disasters and conflicts, and their concerns have rarely been addressed by emergency programmes or planners. This analysis seeks to: (1) highlight factors...
This Collection contains toolkits, guidelines and policy on how to implement and improve accessibility for persons with disabilities during emergencies. The Collection focuses on physical...
The chairman of the discussion presented a `toolbox` of items to be developed as part of the Emergency Shelter Cluster, useful in support of field implementation.
The subsequent discussion...
This presentation covered topics including-
1. Emergency shelters
2. Transitional shelters...
An update on the Emergency Cluster Shelter by UNHCR and IFRC.
This presentation covered topics including-
1.Understanding roles of local markets in shelter recovery.
2. EMMA- The emergency market mapping and analysis
3. What Emergency...
In emergencies, the poorest people suffer hardest and longest, including significant numbers of older people. Older people are often at least as vulnerable as other population groups, such as...