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This publication aims to promote age-inclusive resilience-building among practitioners and policy-makers. It gives a comprehensive overview of how resilience-building programmes should be designed and implemented to ensure the inclusion of older people. It also highlights the benefits of including and empowering older people through disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience-building activities. By applying an older people lens to DRR programming, which involves assessing the specific vulnerabilities and capacities of older people and encouraging them to take a more proactive role, we can support older people to become more resilient – with wideranging benefits for themselves, their families, and their wider communities. We have included case studies to highlight good practice, demonstrating what can be achieved by working for and with older people.

Section 2 provides an overview of what makes older people more vulnerable to disasters, but also emphasises the benefits of understanding older people’s capabilities and harnessing their potential contributions to DRR activities. Section 3 explores some of the approaches that can be used to involve older people and maximise opportunities for them to contribute to DRR work, alongside younger people. Section 4 describes actions that can be taken at the seven stages of planning and implementing DRR activities at community level, with checklists to help ensure that appropriate steps have been taken to include older people and other vulnerable groups. Section 5 explains how older people can be supported to build more resilient livelihoods through interventions in a range of areas, from disaster mitigation to age and climate-smart agriculture, and from social protection to conflict resolution. Section 6 sets out what governments (at national and local levels) and civil society organisations can do to advance the age-inclusive resiliencebuilding agenda.