GOAL 1: No Poverty
Overcoming poverty is the greatest challenge of our time. Poverty comes in many forms. Absolute poverty, which is sometimes existentially threatening, is not comparable to the situation of low-income people in Europe or the United States. However, both forms of poverty must be fought.
What is to be achieved?
- By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty – currently defined as the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day – for all people everywhere.
- By 2030, reduce by at least half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to the respective national definition.
- Implement social protection systems and policies appropriate to national circumstances for all, including basic protection, and achieve broad coverage of the poor and vulnerable by 2030.
- By 2030, ensure that all men and women, especially the poor and vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources and access to basic services, land ownership and control, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technologies and financial services, including microfinance.
- By 2030, increase the resilience of the poor and people in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social, and environmental shocks and disasters.
- Establish sound policy frameworks at the national, regional, and international levels based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication activities.
How is the goal to be achieved?
- Ensure significant mobilisation of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, to provide developing countries, and least developed countries, with sufficient and predictable resources to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions.
