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Shelter is a basic human right for people of all ages, but for older people, the sense of security and comfort that a home provides is particularly important. Losing their home in a disaster or...
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...
Older refugee women and men face particular challenges during the different phases of displacement (flight, displacement, resettlement, and reintegration). UNHCR staff and partners need to ensure...
This guideline, from HelpAge International, has been developed to support field teams to implement protection activities for older people in emergency and recovery contexts. Its primary targets...
The Royal Government of Cambodia’s Ministry of Rural Development has developed the National Strategic Plan on Rural Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene (RWSSH) 2014 - 2025. This National Strategic...
These guidelines have been prepared to help integrate and mainstream the concerns and issues related to older persons into disaster risk management programmes and processes. They outline...
This publication is intended to provide disaster mental health and human service workers, service providers, program planners, administrators, as well as care givers, and older persons themselves...
To this end, the guidelines outline the policy framework for engaging with older people in development (section 1.2) and key factors associated with working with older people (section 1.3), before...
- Fair guidelines: four steps towards a UN convention on the rights of older people.
Older citizens monitoring is a process through which groups of older people monitor their access to services they are entitled to and lobby for improvements. These guidelines explain how older...