UN Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty

Sustainable Development Goal 1

No Poverty

End poverty in all its forms everywhere.

Goal 1 addresses poverty in all its dimensions. Its targets cover extreme poverty, nationally defined poverty, social protection, access to basic services and economic resources, resilience to shocks and disasters, and policies and resources for poverty eradication.

Target-area diagram

What Goal 1 covers

This N4SF explanatory diagram groups the main policy areas addressed by the official United Nations targets for this goal.

1Extreme poverty
2National poverty reduction
3Social protection
4Basic services and resources
5Resilience to shocks
6Policy and financing

Official United Nations targets

Goal 1 target list

The wording below is sourced from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs goal page.

1.1

By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day

1.2

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

1.3

Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable

1.4

By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular 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

1.5

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

1.a

Ensure 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, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions

1.b

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