Publications

This leaflet is a summary of the guidance on emergency shelter programmes. It provides evidence based advice for first line responders.

French translation of Guidance on including older people in emergency shelter programmes. These guidelines recommend five key action points for including older people in emergency shelter programmes, so that their vulnerabilities are properly addressed.

This leaflet is a summary of the guidance on emergency shelter programmes. It provides evidence based advice for first line responders.

These guidelines summarise the issues facing older people who are caring for family members affected by HIV and AIDS, and set out ways to give older carers the emotional and social support they need.

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 citizens monitoring works and what it can achieve.

These guidelines discuss older people’s nutritional needs, why older people may not be eating well, and what can be done to help.

The media has a vital role to play in raising awareness of older people’s issues, but older people are under-represented in the media. These guidelines provide practical suggestions for working with the media.

This poster shows how to recover, including assessing the damage, cleaning up and preparing for future emergencies.

This poster shows how to respond during an emergency, including what to do at the first signs of an emergency, the importance of evacuating early and what to do in the evacuation centre.

This poster shows how to prepare for an emergency, including community mapping, communications, preparing an evacuation bag, and general preparedness.

This checklist provides an illustrated guide of what to pack in an evacuation bag in case of an emergency.

This study focuses on communities in the Philippines, that have been affected by natural disasters. It also makes policy recommendations to government and voluntary organisations’ emergency and relief services.