Age Inclusive Humanitarian Interventions (AIHI)

This course is designed for any staff and volunteers in humanitarian organisations at community, local, national or international level, including programme management staff and senior staff, with little knowledge of ageing or working with older people in humanitarian contexts. It is a self-guided and self-paced online course.

• healthy ageing, examining mental health, and highlighting the importance of non-communicable disease management in later life.

• the right to autonomy for older people and the importance of independent living in protecting autonomy. 
• gender-based violence, its underlying factors and in later life, its impact on older people, and the importance of GBV protection and response in a humanitarian context.
• inclusion of older men and women to ensure their participation in humanitarian settings.
• inclusive humanitarian program ensuring that older people with or without disabilities can participate in the program development process.