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Building Community Organisations to Reduce Poverty and Vulnerability Amongst Older People and their Families in Myanmar

2016-12-26T14:06:37+07:00Tags: , , , |

This is the final evaluation for the project Building Community Organisations to Reduce Poverty and Vulnerability Among Older People and Their Families (CORP), which set up the first 20 older people’s associations in Myanmar, called Older People Self Help [...]

Age and security- How social pensions can deliver effective aid to poor older people and their families

2016-12-26T14:09:10+07:00Tags: , , |

The report focuses on social pension programmes (involving non-contributory pensions targeted at the poor). It sets out the economic and political issues, provides case study evidence (including the views of older people already receiving pensions) and puts forward an [...]