No Poverty: Sustainable Development Goals and UNDP's Efforts

This article discusses the Sustainable Development Goal of No Poverty and the efforts made by UNDP to achieve it. It explains the dimensions of poverty and the challenges faced in eradicating it. It also explores the global and national policies and programs aimed at poverty reduction.

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One of the prominent contemporary development challenge was dealt on September 25th,
2015, 193 member countries stepped forward to adopt and contribute their efforts towards
2030 agenda for the sustainable development at UN general assembly summit. It came into
force on 1 January 2016. Also, it laid down the parameters of 17 sustainable development
goals in addition to the advent of 169 targets to be achieved in next 15 years. Among the 17
goals to transmute the world by United Nations in 2030, “No Poverty” is the prominent one.
Various parties into action like government agencies, business and members of civil society
sum up together with United Nations in mobilizing the efforts directed to achieve the set
target by end of 2030. The act needs to be acknowledged by all countries to improve the
quality of life of people universally in inclusive and indivisible manner. Since the era of
1990, thrilling poverty rates have been minimized by more than half the rate into existence.
Although, it is notable attainment that still one among the five individual in the area of
developing regions live on less than $1.90 per day (Griggs, et al. 2013). To the rest, they
make usually earn the bigger amount than this. People engage to the depth of slipping back
into scarcity.
The concept of poverty is much beyond concept rather than lack of just revenue and some
resources to attain justifiable livelihood. The indicators of former include the dimensions of
undernourishment and hunger, along with confined access to the edification and several other
basic facilities. It also takes into account the edges of social discernment, segregation, and
absence of participatory role in the process of decision making. The factor of economic
growth is a must comprehensive part to ensure the required quantity of sustainable jobs as
well as in elevation of equality. The facts and figures of the studies reveal that nearly 767
million people spend their livelihood deep below the international paucity line of $1.90 per
day. In the year 2016, almost 10% of the workers worldwide animate with their respective
families on a lesser amount of $1.90 per being per day. The major part of this overwhelming
poverty index belongs to the region of Southern Asia as well as Sub Saharan Africa
(Sustainable development goals, 2018). The momentum of poverty rate is generally high in
brittle, trivial and war-affected countries. Apparently, in the midst of one among four children
covering under the age of five is figured out to have an inadequate height in the reflection of
the age belongings. In 2014, virtually 42,000 individuals were forced to abandon their
household in order to seek protection arising due to conflict. On the core of this universal
agenda for the period of 2030, the enduring standard of universality i.e. “leave no one
behind” has gained momentum (United Nations development programme, 2018). These

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indicators are pronounced to be disaggregated by age, masculinity, topography, income,
profession and several other aspects of social identity.
1. The eradication of poverty is one of the foremost and greatest encounters fronting
humanity. Although, there has been a decline by over half the rate which was present
between 1990 and 2015, in the context of the individuals living in the critical state of poverty.
The individuals who struggle for the bottom line human need amounts from 1.9 billion to
around 836 billion. Universally, additional 800 million people are bodily living their day to
day on the footnote of less than US$1.25 a day (The global goals, 2018). Also, many amongst
experience lack the proper access to gain an adequate amount of clean drinking water, food
facilities, and sanitation. There have been speedy networks of economic evolution in
countries like India and China to uplift the millions out of the dig of poverty. On the contrary,
the resultant challenge arises is that the progress is uneven. Studies have revealed that women
are comparatively more likely to become the victim of poverty as equated to men because of
the unfit access to edification, paid work and poverty (Walker, 2015). The case is worst in the
areas of South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa which interpret for nearly 80% of overall poverty
ratio in the world. In East Asia and Latin America, the percentile of poorest children who die
by age of 5 is three times more likely as compared to the richest. Correspondingly, new
threats such as the climate change, nutrition, and conflict diffidence explain that more efforts
are needed to bring out the desired change. Today, around the world there is a staggering
population of around 800 million who still belong to the boundaries of extreme poverty. The
volume of young people prone to this hazard is expressly vulnerable. As of 2015 statistics
reveals that 10.2% of overall working adults commensurate below the poverty line forming
USD of 1.9 per day. Yet this integer rises to 16% in the context of age group with 15-24
years. Unwantedly, children have become the foremost victim of universal poverty crisis with
18,000 progenies dying each day from related causes (MDG MONITOR, 2018).
In Bangladesh, the females are often employed at least range of productivity scale. The rural
women labour force participation is up to 36.4% as compared to 83.3% of men. Globally for
every 100 men in the number who are poor, there are 122 women in disparity (Mun: planet,
2018).

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(Source: Bangladesh poverty index, 2018)
2. The progress made so far has been possible with the contribution of UNDP support to
implement the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. There has been a gateway of
imperative today to substitute the factors of sustainable development. There have been
continuous exertions to promote the prosperity and welfare along with the defence of the
environment by 2030. Outwardly UNDP has showcased itself as UN’s Development arm in
order to play a crucial role as a support system to bring out this hard-core vision into reality.
It also takes measures to put societies on the pathway of sustainable development while
handling risk and augmenting resilience.
UNDP has functioned along with United Nations Development Group (UNDG) to build up
the strategy for rational and operative implementation. The support factor for new agenda of
sustainable development comes under the acronym of “MAPS” which stands for
mainstreaming, acceleration and policy support (United Nations development programme,
2018).
The SDG funds collected support the initiatives which handle the issue of poverty from every
mutlitsectoral outlook and dimensions. There has been the constant creation of opportunities
for decent and good jobs in order to secure livelihood. Support has been inclusive even in
aspects of sustainable industry performs.
To overcome the crisis in Bangladesh, the SDG funds programme is functioning in Kurigram
district (northwest) and Satkhira district (coastal belt). Both of the aforesaid are adversely
affected by prominent factors of extreme poverty and seasonal hunger. Therefore to come up
with strains, more than 2500 women’s have been given employment through the programme

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(Sustainable development goals fund, 2018). As a result, there was the opening of separate
bank accounts of women.
FAO (food and agriculture organizations of United Nations) focus on generating jobs and
eliminating hunger by tactics of inclusive agriculture, off-farm thrifts, and food production.
FAO extends its help to affected countries by developing evidence-based strategies,
approaches, and programmes in order to yield no poverty goal (Food and agriculture
organization of the United Nations, 2018). It creates structural alteration, admittance
governing the use of land and resources, income divergence, gender equality and attired jobs
(Bruton, Ketchen and Ireland, 2013).
SDG targets are collectively defined as “global and aspirational” in 2030 agenda with each
government agency tailoring the specific indicators and own national targets. The resultant is
guided by the front of global level of ambition while taking into prefix national
circumstances. Moreover, only 230 indicators will be recognized to access the progress at a
worldwide level.
There has been the launch of a global indicator framework which includes nearly 230
pointers in order to monitor and timely review the progress made in SDG’s 169 targets.
Apparently, the aforesaid has been mandated by UN General Assembly under the
authorization of UN Statistical Commission.
There has been the sub sternal creation of policy frameworks which govern the dogma of pro-
poor and gender-sensitive areas. It supports the accelerated investment of poverty eradication
actions.
In this direction, United Nations Member States congregated together for the start of the fresh
millennium so as to outline the broad vision to compete for poverty. Thereafter, this vision
was deciphered into eight Millennium development goals to over ache the world. In 2015,
this framework was set to expire which included time-bound goals, indicators, and targets to
monitor the progress made. The consequential were at least 21 million additional lives were
protected due to the accelerated pace of progress (Sachs, 2012).

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(Source: UN-IGME, 2015)
The rapidity of acceleration varied significantly across matters as well as geographies.
Positive changes were out looked in Sub Saharan Africa and low-slung income countries as
per the classification made by World Bank in 2000. As many as more than 111 million
people completed the stage of primary school and 471 million have been uplifted out of
poverty in 2013 (Millennium development goals: 2015 progress chart, 2018).
(Source: World Bank, 2016)

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The low-income country has been augmented versus the middle-income country gains by
2015. The vertical axis demonstrates the proportion of annual rate of progress. A ratio of 1
designates no change, a ratio of 2 signifies doubling in the rate of progress and so forth
(McArthur and Rasmussen, 2017).
(Source: UN-IGME, 2015)
3. with the end of 2030, eradication of extreme poverty under the poverty line from every
corner of the world. Also, there is a proportionate plan to cut down at least half of the share
of women, men and children of all age group under the poverty index in every possible
dimension (UN Women, 2018). The execution of nationally viable social defence system is
undertaken to achieve the substantial coverage among those who are poor and susceptible.
Significantly, it ensures that people of every class have equal right to avail economic
resources, basic services, the degree of ownership and control etc. It also includes the
prevalence of uniformity over inheritance, use of natural resources along with the advent of
innovative know-how and financial amenities with those of microfinance.
Moreover, steps are taken to build the liability for those who are in a deprived and susceptible
situation in order to minimize the adverse effect of the exposure. The circumstances arise are
generally climate-related thrilling chronicles in addition to social, economic and ecological
adversities. There shall also be the intact mobilization of capitals from diverse channels of
sources comprising through updated development cooperation (Newton, 2015). Programmes
should be laid down to provide expectable and penetrable means for the concern of
developing and developed countries in order to end poverty in every prospectus possible.
There should be the construction of comprehensive policy frameworks at the provincial,

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nation-wide and intercontinental levels. The former is required to be based on the strategies
of gender-sensitive development and pro-poor agenda in order to sustenance the content of
accelerated investment in the abolition of poverty schedules.
Therefore, it can be concluded that SDG has a bold obligation to end what was started. This
comes with the prospectus of culminating poverty in every possible system and magnitudes
by the end of 2030. The resultant action involves targeting the most susceptible areas and
increasing the access of the people of that region towards basic services and resources.
Howsoever, it also encompasses the support extended to the communities affected by the war
in addition to weather-related adversities. There is also a deep recognition above all, that the
interconnected and worldwide challenges can be resolved only with interconnected solutions
which are universal in nature. As the steps will be guided towards the attainment of 169
targets, automatically the orientation will rise in the context of national and global
development on the more robust path. There shall be the promotion of better governmental
procedures which are impartial and accountable to a public institution. Towards
enhancement, footsteps should be taken to extend the access to social protection for women
which would help in removal of vulnerability and poverty as well. Timely follow up and
review takings should be enforced by UN provincial and universal bodies to analyse and
evaluate the system reports. The experiences so earned with all participatory countries are
expected to review at least twice in the cycle of 15 years. The systematic formulation of UN
women acts to terminate poverty with the help of programmes aiming at providing training,
practical skills and loans to empower women economically.

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