HOPE resources

Here you can find all the reading needed for Helping Older People in Emergencies (HOPE) training:

Older people in emergencies:

• Protecting and Assisting Older People in Emergencies
• Protecting older people in emergencies: good practice guide, UNHCR and HelpAge International, 2012
• Older people in emergencies - identifying and reducing risks, HelpAge International

Disaster risk reduction:

• Older People and Effective Disaster Risk Reduction, HelpAge International, 2010

Shelter:

• Guidance on including older people in emergency shelter programmes (a summary), 2011

Displacement:

• Need to Know Guidance Series, Volume III - Working with Older Persons in Forced Displacement, UNHCR, 2011

• Global Protection Cluster Work Group, Handbook for the protection of internally displaced persons, Geneva, 2007
• Crisis-affected older people in Kenya and Somalia, HelpAge International, 2011
• Rebuilding lives in longer term emergencies, HelpAge International
• The neglected generation: The impact of displacement on older people, HelpAge International

Humanitarian:

• A Study of Humanitarian Financing for Older People, HelpAge International 2012
• Sex and Age Matter, Tufts University, 2011

Older people's needs:

• Addressing the nutritional needs of older people in emergency situations: ideas for action, HelpAge International, 2001

• What do older people need in emergencies? The experience in the Philippines after Typhoon Ketsana, HelpAge International, 2010

• HelpAge International, The situation of older people in cyclone-affected Myanmar, London, 2009
• Summary of research findings on the nutritional status and risk factors for vulnerability of older people in Africa, HelpAge International

Inter-Agency Standing Committee:

• Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Humanitarian action and older persons, Geneva/London, 2008
• Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Strong and fragile: learning from older people in emergencies, Geneva/London, 2007
• Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Report on an inter-agency review conducted by HelpAge International, Geneva, 2007