The 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Develiopment Goals defined by UN acknowledges that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. The first Sustainable Development Goal aims to “End poverty in all its forms everywhere”. Its seven associated targets aims, among others, to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty, and implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable.
Introduction
As recalled by the foreword of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals Report, at the Millennium Summit in September 2000, 189 countries unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration, pledging to “spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty”. This commitment was translated into an inspiring framework of eight goals and, then, into wide-ranging practical steps that have enabled people across the world to improve their lives and their future prospects. The MDGs helped to lift more than one billion people out of extreme poverty, to make inroads against hunger, to enable more girls to attend school than ever before and to protect our planet.
Nevertheless, in spite of all the remarkable gains, inequalities have persisted and progress has been uneven.
- improving access to sustainable livelihoods, entrepreneurial opportunities and productive resources.
- providing universal access to basic social services.
- progressively developing social protection systems to support those who cannot support themselves.
- empowering people living in poverty and their organizations;
- addressing the disproportionate impact of poverty on women.
- working with interested donors and recipients to allocate increased shares of ODA to poverty eradication.
- intensifying international cooperation for poverty eradication.
