Magic Bus works with children and young people taking them on a journey from Childhood to Livelihood and out of poverty.
Promotes and protects children’s rights by building powerful partnerships and alliances in and across
communities, and from the local to the regional and global level.
UN Development Programme works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so countries can sustain progress. As the UN’s development agency, UNDP plays a critical role in helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
There is no silver bullet to ending poverty, and strategies to reach the most vulnerable must be tailored to each country’s context, taking into account the latest data and analysis and the needs of the people.
Approximately 700 million people worldwide currently live in extreme poverty, a state of severe financial and social vulnerability that robs many of hope and dignity. Listen to this Ted Talks Daily podcast on Apple Podcasts to learn 4 steps to ending extreme poverty. Yes, we can do it!
At the height of this global health crisis, we hear that coronavirus does not discriminate and that we are all in this together. But is this really true? Is it really the case that everyone is equal in the face of a pandemic like COVID-19? Listen on to find out the answers.
Human beings have been campaigning against inequality and poverty for 3,000 years. But this journey is accelerating. Bono “embraces his inner nerd” and shares inspiring data that shows the end of poverty is in sight … if we can harness the momentum.
To strive for a world in which all regions, countries, households, and people experience the benefits of poverty reduction, we need to piece together the poverty puzzle to understand its full impacts.
Poverty rates have fallen faster in the past 30 years than at any other time on record. The UN wants extreme poverty to disappear by 2030.
Mapping the world economy, Jeffrey Sachs explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and why the poorest nations have been unable to escape the trap of poverty.
The fight to end extreme poverty is revealing a developing dichotomy. On the one hand, extreme poverty continues to be stubborn in certain parts of the world, while in others it has become minuscule or non-existent.
While the total number of impoverished people worldwide is declining, the rate of progress is not as fast as it needs to be to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.
