{"id":6068,"date":"2014-07-28T06:44:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T06:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2014-07-28T06:44:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T06:44:54","slug":"the-un-looks-to-end-poverty-but-not-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/07\/28\/the-un-looks-to-end-poverty-but-not-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The UN looks to end poverty \u2013 but not yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The outcomes of the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG<\/a>) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is now available. \u00a0There are 17 SDGs and 169 targets, including 62 targets in relation to implementation. \u00a0These proposals will now be submitted to the UN General Assembly for consideration. The 17 goals are:<\/p>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0 End poverty in all its forms everywhere<\/p>\n

2\u00a0\u00a0 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture<\/p>\n

3\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages<\/p>\n

4\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all<\/p>\n

5\u00a0\u00a0 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls<\/p>\n

6\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all<\/p>\n

7\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all<\/p>\n

8\u00a0\u00a0 Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all<\/p>\n

9\u00a0\u00a0 Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation<\/p>\n

10\u00a0\u00a0 Reduce inequality within and among countries<\/p>\n

11\u00a0\u00a0 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable .<\/p>\n

12\u00a0\u00a0 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns<\/p>\n

13\u00a0\u00a0 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts<\/p>\n

14\u00a0\u00a0 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development<\/p>\n

15\u00a0\u00a0 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss<\/p>\n

16\u00a0\u00a0 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels<\/p>\n

17\u00a0\u00a0 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s easy to be cynical about some of these glib-sounding aspirations; for example, End poverty in all its forms everywhere<\/em>. \u00a0However, if you look at the proposed targets<\/a>, things get more detailed, and in many instances, more meaningful. \u00a0For example,<\/p>\n

1.1. <\/strong>by 2030 eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day<\/p>\n

1.2. <\/strong>by 2030 reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions<\/p>\n

1.3 <\/strong>implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable<\/p>\n

1.4 <\/strong>by 2030 ensure that all men and women, particularly the poor and the vulnerable, 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<\/p>\n

1.5. <\/strong>by 2030 build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations, and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters<\/p>\n

1.a. <\/strong>ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular LDCs, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions<\/p>\n

1.b. <\/strong>create sound policy frameworks, at national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investments in poverty eradication actions<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All this sounds absolutely worthwhile, unless you're misguided enough to think that poverty's necessary to help keep the global population down. \u00a0But note the switch here from absolute to\u00a0poverty to relative poverty. \u00a0Realistic, I thought, given that the poor have always been with us, and. relatively speaking, likely always will no matter what the UN does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The outcomes of the UN General Assembly Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is now available. \u00a0There are 17 SDGs and 169 targets, including 62 targets in relation to implementation. \u00a0These proposals will now be submitted to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}