Salt, soap and shoes for school: evaluation report
This report discusses the impact of pensions on the lives of older people and grandchildren in Tanzania’s Kagera region. It shows how pensions bring stability and dignity.
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This report discusses the impact of pensions on the lives of older people and grandchildren in Tanzania’s Kagera region. It shows how pensions bring stability and dignity.
This briefing discusses, from an African perspective, the need to strengthen the response to HIV and AIDS. It highlights the ways in which older people can be affected by HIV and AIDS.
This report makes recommendations to the European Union on how to include older people in decent work programmes and how to provide assistance with social pensions.
This paper details how older people’s rights are frequently violated and how a UN convention should be created to protect the rights of older people with the appointment of a special rapporteur to monitor it.
This document summarises Forgotten workforce: older people and their right to decent work, highlighting the conditions of older workers in low- and middle-income countries.
This report discusses the contribution older people in low- and middle- income countries make to their families and the economy. It looks at the reasons why older people work and the types of work they do.
This document describes a workshop held in 2002 in Sri Lanka, where older people were empowered to produce their own video about themselves and their community.
This manual includes information and case studies gathered by older people and older people’s NGOs in Moldova as part of a project to demonstrate the potential of older people as providers of social services.
This briefing explains why programmes designed to support orphans and vulnerable children need to pay more attention to the needs of the older people who care for them.
This manual details how and why advocacy is important and how organisations and communities could explore ways of awareness-raising with older people that are culturally appropriate and sustainable.
This document describes how to develop older people’s associations, to reintegrate older people into society in Moldova.
This document provides guidelines for establishing and working with older people’s associations in Cambodia. It details how they improve the quality of life of older people, for example, by increasing social interaction.