Monitoring older people's human rights in Peru, Mozambique and Kyrgyzstan
This project was commissioned by HelpAge as a basis for broader efforts to develop an indicator-based system for monitoring older people’s human rights in different countries across the world. The project has three key aims:
- Develop an indicator-based system for monitoring older people’s human rights,
based on the good practice model published by the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
- Develop a social survey instrument that can be used to build up evidence
against the indicators on a country by country basis.
- Present findings based on the survey data for Peru, Mozambique and Kyrgyzstan.
In this research report, we set out the indicator-based system that has been developed to meet these aims (the HelpAge panel on the human rights of older people) together with details of the social survey instrument that has been developed in order to build up an evidence base against the indicators (the HelpAge survey on the human rights of older people).
The survey was fielded in Peru, Mozambique and Kyrgyzstan during the course of 2012 and key findings based on the survey for these countries are also reported.
The remainder of the report is organised as follows:
- Chapter 1 sets out the HelpAge panel on the human rights of older people and the
indicator dashboards relating to each of the human rights that are currently included
in the system.
- Chapter 2 explains how the HelpAge survey on the human rights of older people has
been developed. Our operationalisation of the concept of elder abuse, survey design,
quality control and project ethical and safety guidelines are all discussed.
- Chapters 3-5 set out the first sets of survey findings for findings from Peru,
Mozambique and Kyrgyzstan.
- Chapter 6 lists a number of recommendations for taking the development of the HelpAge panel and social survey forward.
