The Platform
The Platform
12 June 2015
This is a section dedicated to older persons taken from UNHCR’s Handbook for Emergencies, whose 4th edition was originally published in 2015 but is now available fully online and constantly updated. The Emergency Handbook guidance is published in the form of “Entries”, self-contained units of content. Entries are structured along seven main topic areas: 1. “Getting ready”: Emergency preparedness; 2. “Protecting and empowering”: Community based protection; protection interventions, asylum, specific needs, registration, legal standards and principles; 3. “Delivering the response”: Programme planning and management, sector guidance and good practises by operational context (urban, rural, camps), standards and indicators, UNHCR management procedures for administration, finance, human resources, supply and information and communication technology (ICT); 4. “Leading and coordinating”: Setting strategy, coordination, emergencies, resource mobilisation and information management; 5. “Staff well-being”: Support and advice for emergency responders, also in terms of psychological and physical well-being; 6. “Security”: Security and risk management guidance, in view of emergency responders and persons of concern; 7. “Media”: Working with journalists and mass media, including print, visual and digital media.
The Handbook is primarily a tool for UNHCR emergency operations and its workforce, but can also be used by any stakeholder and actor working in emergency situations.
Age-friendly Environments
Combatting Ageism
Integrated Care
UN Agency
emergencies, emergency, #LeaveNoOneBehind, crisis, conflict
