AFFORD Final Evaluation Consultant HelpAge International (www.helpage.org) is the secretariat to the HelpAge Global Network, which brings together a wide range of organisations and individuals working together to ensure that older people lead dignified, active, healthy and secure lives. HelpAge International is managing a six-year (2017 to 2022) multi-country Accountability and Fulfilment for Older Persons to Raise their Dignity Programme (AFFORD II), a social protection programme, funded by Irish Aid. The AFFORD II programme is being implemented in four countries, namely Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
The goal of the AFFORD II programme is to enable older women and men in four targeted African countries to lead a more dignified, healthy, secure and resilient lives. The programme is built on the understanding that social protection is crucial to achieve these goals, and that enhanced accountability of Governments and implementers to older people, as well as the empowerment of older people to claim their rights, are requirements of the development of inclusive, effective and rights-based social protection systems.