STUDY REPORT | This study of the impact of the <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">Nepal</span> earthquake of 25 April, 2015, aims to understand the impact factors leading to the exclusion of older people <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and</span> persons with disabilities from humanitarian action, barriers to their inclusion, <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and</span> the extent to which their skills <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and</span> knowledge were utilised to promote inclusive humanitarian action <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and</span>, using this understanding, to formulate a set of recommendations for promoting inclusion. These recommendations will be used to sensitise the broader humanitarian community to the need for inclusive disaster risk management practices in future emergency responses which pay attention to factors such as gender, age, disability <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and</span> ethnicity, <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and</span> build upon the capacities of older people <span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and</span> persons with disabilities.