Social protection
- Working with the media - HelpAge guidelines
- HelpAge International, 2011
- The media has a vital role to play in raising awareness of older people’s issues and generating support for older people. These guidelines, aimed at programme managers and communications staff o...
- HelpAge International job vacancies
- HelpAge International, 2011
- All HelpAge job vacancies are posted here. Please check regularly to see if there is a position that you would like to apply for. ...
- On the edge: why older people’s needs are not being met in humanitarian emergencies
- HelpAge International, 2011
- When disaster strikes, older people are among the most vulnerable to neglect, injury, death and disease, yet their needs are often overlooked. This report sets out the scale and nature of this prob...
- Documenting good practices at partner level
- HelpAge International, 2011
- During the period 2006 – 2010, a regional HIV and AIDS advocacy programme was implemented in the sub Saharan African countries. In this respect, HelpAge and its partners undertook a number of...
- Europe: leading the way: why the EU must make its development cooperation age-friendly
- HelpAge International, 2011
- Older people are some of the poorest of the world’s poor, where 100 million older men and women live on less than a dollar a day. This paper argues that the EU must rise to the challenge of p...
- Overview of available policies and legislation, data and research, and institutional arrangements relating to older persons - progress since Madrid
- G. Gelber (ed) / HelpAge International, 2011
- The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and its Political Declaration (Madrid Plan) were adopted in April 2002 by the 159 governments which attended the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Ma...
- Older Women and Beijing: 15 Years on
- B. Sleap / HelpAge International, 2010
- 15 years ago, the Beijing Declaration recognised age discrimination as one of the factors contributing to the barriers to women's empowerment and advancement. Older women were specifically mentioned i...
- Off the grid: exploring the expanding informal economy and threats to old-age social protection in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
- E. Mikkonen-Jeanneret;R. Rayapova;N. Yefimov (ed) / HelpAge International, 2011
- Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan face the simultaneous challenges of a ballooning informal labour force and an ageing population. Pension systems will have difficulty providing adequate social protection ...
- The price of income security in older age: cost of a universal pension in 50 low- and middle-income countries
- C. Knox-Vydmanov / HelpAge International, 2011
- Social pensions are a vehicle for reducing the poverty of the population as a whole. This paper reviews the cost of universal pensions, suggesting that the cost of universal pensions in developing cou...
- Good practice in the development of management information systems for social protection
- R. Chirchir;S. Kidd / HelpAge International, 2011
- Management information systems (MISs) are core to the design of social protection schemes. This working paper examines good practice in the design of MISs for social protection. The paper argues that ...
