The world’s most extreme poor are located primarily in rural places. Clearly, people’s proximity (or lack of) to city centers of decision-making, power and relative affluence is a determining factor in their life experience, alongside other conditions that lead to the systemic poverty experienced by rural families.

Addressing rural impoverishment involves implementing projects relating to water provision, agriculture, building schools and designing curriculum content as well as gender issues and other matters of historic justice. For development in these areas to be sustainable we know that the participation of the ultimate beneficiaries in project design and management is the critical determining factor alongside finance.

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There is a need for determined Sub-national, National and Global Collective Action to achieve New Sub-national, National and Global Order – Political and Cultural; Economic and Financial; Social and Environmental; Religious and Moral, if there is to be high probability of achieving increasing convergence between Final Push to achieve MDGs’ by 2015 and Post 2015 Development Agenda Vision Intention and Reality. If this New Order is Institutionalized, MDG 2 (SDG) can do much to help solve real and complex problems on the ground in our World as is. Otherwise, MDG 2 (SDG) is dead at birth. Allowed to occur, the probability is high that our Fragile Planet, will self destruct sooner than later. This Paper, a follow up to SDKP Position Paper 1, set out good ideas and pertinent suggestions for laying foundation and building edifice of this New Order.

1111_7268_SDKP Position Paper 2.pdf

The OWG has begun to engage in detailed consideration of individual goals and targets. At this important moment however CIDSE believes a number of over-arching issues must be taken into account if this work, and the outcome framework, are to deliver and respond to the considerable task it has been entrusted with. This document sets out a number of recommendations to the OWG, including a multi-dimensional approach to poverty eradication.

1111_3563_CIDSE OWG stock take and recommendations April 2014 Final.pdf

Stakeholder Forum has produced a 'Summary of targets from proposals in the SDGs e-Inventory under the OWG’s 19 Focus Areas'. A section is devoted to targets and indicators related to poverty eradication.

Summary of targets from proposals in the SDGs e-Inventory under the OWG’s 19 Focus Areas
Putting stakeholders at the core of post-Rio+20 processes

Under MDG 1, the main measurements of poverty are either the percentage of population living below $1 (PPP) per day or percentage population living below $1.25 USD. However, UNDP, many member states and civil society organizations question the usefulness of these income-based measures.Despite real progress in some regions in poverty eradication in the last years, the 2013 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) shows that out of the 109 countries (mostly in the Global South) analysed, 1.7 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty—multiple and simultaneous deprivations at individual levels in health, education and living standards. There is now evidence showing that we are failing to reach the most vulnerable populations, who are most affected by both environmental degradation and social and economic exclusion. Furthermore, development policies and projects have not had the desired impact on the target populations and many have contributed to isolate and displace the most marginalized populations.

In order to better capture the different dimensions of poverty, it is necessary to combine quantitative and qualitative measures, listen to the views of people living in poverty on what dimensions are important, and develop new measures and metrics and combine different indicators. It is also important to gather (and for countries to report) disaggregated data that makes it possible to monitor and attribute success based on the lowest quintile in every country.

International Movement ATD Fourth World presents proposals to incorporate inclusive participatory research with special attention to people in the "Lowest Quintile" into the creation and improvement of measurements.

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The eradication of poverty and hunger are the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). Yet, two years from the target date for the MDGs, millions continue to suffer from poverty while inequality within and between countries is increasing rather than declining. Despite unprecedented economic growth and progress in technology, health and education, eliminating poverty and inequality remains the greatest global challenge.

Poverty is driven by inequality and cannot be addressed without resolving the root causes of inequality. Due to structural inequalities in society and the global economy, the benefits of economic growth have accrued to small elites. For the rest, wages have increasingly decoupled from growth, despite this growth being based on the notion that its trickle-down would benefit all in society. Inequalities between social classes and countries combine with discrimination based on gender, race, culture, sexual orientation to form patterns of poverty and exclusion that pervade the world today.The prevailing development paradigm has proven ineffective in addressing inequality and poverty, and there is a need for a new development paradigm which will address the causes of poverty and commit to meaningful reform.

THE CHALLENGE

Governments must commit to take meaningful action to address poverty and inequality through a commitment to a new development agenda. This must be based on the recognition of a need to do away with an obsession with growth, and instead redistribute money and resources for the benefit of the majority. Given the excessive accumulation of wealth to the hands of a few, there is a need for concerted redistribution efforts which will ensure a more equitable distribution of resources for all. Governments must renew commitments to end poverty and collectively commit to cooperate to achieve real progress.

THE CAMPAIGN FOR PEOPLE’S GOALS MAKES THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS TO GUIDE A NEW DEVELOPMENT AGENDA TO:

Implement asset redistribution and reform.

Break up private monopolies or oligopolies over land, finance, technology, services and strategic industries. Increase public ownership and stakeholder management of key sectors of the economy where public interest is paramount;
Promote more public, cooperative and community-based forms of ownership and management of productive resources, and reorient operational goals away from competition and private accumulation of wealth, towards meeting social needs; abd
Ensure access to energy services for the poor and marginalized; develop national energy plans and targets to expand the poor’s access to modern energy services including through renewable energy, grid and off-grid solutions.
Implement income redistribution through progressive fiscal policy.

Increase the progressivity of national tax system. Raise the corporate tax rate and the income tax rate of top income groups where there is scope to do so;
Raise wages at the bottom and restrain the highest levels of pay. Raise the share of wages in national income. Aim to close gender, racial and regional wage gaps;
Increase spending on and achieve universal provision of education and healthcare, with affirmative action measures for girls, women and disadvantaged groups. Achieve the UN target of spending 6% of GDP on education;
Establish and maintain a national social protection floor; and
Integrate gender and ethnicity in budget planning.
Rectify bias against peoples from poor communities, minorities, migrant groups, disabled persons or based on their gender, race, sexual orientation or for other reasons.

Assume that no policy intervention is neutral and every policy intervention should take into account its implications for different categories and groups of people; and
Governments need to take into account inter-sectional approaches to reflect and analyze different discriminatory system on the basis of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and other intersects that create inequalities that structure multiple forms of discrimination.
Implement reforms to redress inequality between countries.

Corrects and rectifies historically rooted inequities between countries rooted in legacies from colonialism, slavery, and environmental and ecological plunder.

This is the 3rd Chronic Poverty Reporti and comes at a time when the world is on the cusp of agreeing new global goals to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which largely expire in 2015.
A central part of the post-2015 discussions has been ‘getting to zero’ – eradicating extreme poverty for the first time in human history. The MDGs have been part of an unprecedented global effort to halve the number of people living in such poverty, but this report argues that ‘more of the same’ will not allow us to get to zero.
Why? Because the MDG approach concentrates on lifting people out of poverty, whereas this report shows that in some places, the number of people falling back into poverty or becoming impoverished for the first time can be nearly as high as the number of those that have escaped poverty. Getting to zero means monitoring the numbers of poor people as well as the proportions of the population in poverty, and the numbers of people climbing out, slipping in or staying poor. For example, in Uganda between 2005 and 2011 around 3.4 million people escaped poverty, while around 5.5 million slipped below the poverty line. There were similar trends in Tanzania between 2008 and 2010. In Nepal, around 2.3 million people slipped into poverty while around 3.3 escaped poverty between 2003 and 2010.
To get to zero the world needs new approaches that will work to move the poorest, hardest to reach people well beyond the extreme poverty line. And importantly, ones that will keep them out of poverty for good. The work required to bring people up and beyond the poverty line and to keep them out of poverty would also significantly contribute to reducing inequalities. If poverty reduction policies continue as they are now, there is a very real risk that up to a billion people will still be extremely poor in 2030.

1111_3029_The Third International Chronic Poverty Report - DRAFT Executive Summary and Overview.pdf

Áine O'Connor from Mercy International Association at the 5th session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals.

In this video, Ms O'Connor emphasises the need of sustainable development to focus on the eradication of the root causes of poverty and the importance to look at regional recommendations.

Áine O'Connor on poverty eradication and sustainable development - YouTube
Áine O'Connor from Mercy International Association at the 5th session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals. In this video, Ms O'Connor ...

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This paper draws on available evidence to challenge existing thinking on the way forward for a revised agenda to eradicate extreme poverty. In light of the finding that between a quarter and a half of the world’s poor have persisted in a state of poverty despite a more than decade-long international effort, it is imperative that the discussion turn to focus seriously on those that have been left behind in recent progress, and the reasons for their persistent poverty.

This paper asks who the ‘other 50%’ are, those that have not progressed out of poverty amidst the achievements of the MDGs, and why they remain poor since to eradicate extreme poverty this is the group among the poor that will need to be reached. It then goes on to synthesise knowledge about what addresses chronic and severe poverty and deprivation. Much of this is national level policy making and investment. The international level can only really support relevant actions at this level.

1111_3029_Challenge Paper 1.pdf

La pauvreté dans sa dimension complexe nécessite à ce jour des efforts concertés afin de passer à une vitesse devant permettre à reduire d'une manière sensible l'état de précarité auprès de la population du monde. Alors l'agriculture en est le seul secteur qui pourrait lever ce défit. Les grandes puissances qui ont atteint l'autosuffisance alimentaire, n'appuient pas malheureusement les pays en développement à prendre cette lancée. A ce jour, tous les pays du tiers monde et d'ailleurs ont compris, ils restent qu'ils soient boostés.