SDG 1: Ending Poverty in all its forms everywhere
The first goal among the 17 sustainable development goals is to end poverty in all it forms everywhere by 2030.
Alot of progress has been achieved in reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty globally from 36% in 1990 to 15% in 2015. The COVID pandemic however risks reversing decades of progress in the fight against poverty.
Economics Research warns that the economic fallout from the global pandemic could increase global poverty by as much as half a billion people, or 8% of the total human population.
More than 700million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty. Majority of people living on less than $1.90 live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty is not being able to acess basic needs like food, shelter, healthcare or a safe home. People can also suffer from situational poverty which can be caused by loosing a job or sudden illness. We also have systemic poverty caused by discrimination or inequalities. Poverty can affect anyone anywhere.
Economics Research warns that the economic fallout from the global pandemic could increase global poverty by as much as half a billion people, or 8% of the total human population.
The SDGs’ main reference to combatting poverty is made in target 1.A: “Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions.”
The SDGs also aim to create sound policy frameworks at national and regional levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies to ensure that by 2030 all men and women have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance.
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