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Sustainable Development Goals

By 2030, the target to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere is to reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions (United Nations). By implementing social protection systems and measures for all, this will ensure that all the poor and vulnerable people will 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 (United Nations). Ensuring a 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 (United Nations). The previous goals listed will create 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 actions (United Nations).

Poverty is measured in the United States by comparing a person’s or family’s income to a set poverty threshold or minimum amount of income needed to cover basic needs. People whose income falls under their threshold are considered poor (University of Wisconsin Madison, 2019). Building synergies across all dimensions of poverty eradication and sustainable development, including with the different sectors of economy at the country level (United Nations, 2017).  It means prioritizing marginalized and vulnerable people and communities to leave no one behind.  And it means investment that is commensurate with the challenge. Economic growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote equality, this may be the hardest part of achieving the goal of eradicating poverty. In order to defeat the challenge of poverty, we must use new forms of financing and cooperation. I think resource allocation would be an excellent place to start, government bodies and private insurers would be a great help with channeling funds into communities globally.

References:

United Nations. Sustainable Development Goals. Retrieved from https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/

Merson. M. H, Black. R. E, Mills. A. J.. Fourth Edition Global Health (Diseases, Program, Systems, and Policies). p. xxix and p. 620

United Nations. May 8, 2017. Retrieved from https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/dsgsm1055.doc.htm