Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities

Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities.

RedR developed the Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities as part of the ADCAP (Age and Disability Capacity Building Programme) consortium. 

The Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities are designed to help address the gap in understanding the needs, capacities and rights of older people and people with disabilities, and promote their inclusion in humanitarian action.  

The standards are designed both to strengthen the accountability of humanitarian actors to older people and people with disabilities, and to support the participation of older people and people with disabilities in humanitarian action. You can use them as guidance for programming, and as a resource for training and advocacy, particularly for creating more inclusive organisational policies and practice. 

Publication structure

We derived nine key inclusion standards from the Nine Commitments of the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), and seven sets of sector-specific inclusion standards:

• protection
• water, sanitation and hygiene
• food security and livelihoods
• nutrition
• shelter
• settlement and household items
• health
• education

Each chapter presents a set of standards with key actions to meet the standard, guidance notes to support the delivery of the actions, tools and resources, and case studies.

The sector inclusion standards are structured around three key areas of inclusion:  

The sector-specific inclusion standards are intended to be used in conjunction with the Key inclusion standards. 

RedR training in inclusion standards

The ADCAP materials informed the design of RedR’s Gender, Age and Disability training course, which we’ve delivered in the UK, Nepal, Myanmar, Kenya and Sudan. The training provided the knowledge and tools to help mainstream gender, age and disability into all interventions. We’re helping organisations move beyond simply the desire to be inclusive, and into the reality of meeting minimum standards of inclusion. They can do this by considering the intersectionality of identities that can compound our experiences and behaviours.