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Poverty
Major
Assessments
 IFAD
IFAD
: Annual Report 2006
IFAD, 2006
IFAD is a specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to eradicating
poverty in the rural areas of developing countries. Seventy-five per cent
of the world’s poorest people, 800 million women, men and children,
live in rural areas. Most depend on agriculture to survive. IFAD works with
poor rural people and their organizations, and other partners to develop
solutions that enable poor rural people to overcome poverty themselves.
We work with developing country governments, following their lead to design
programmes and projects that fit within national systems and respond to
the needs, priorities and constraints identified by poor rural people. |
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RURAL
POVERTY REPORT 2001
Rural Poverty Report 2001 - The Challenge
of Ending Rural Poverty, IFAD, 2001.
In this Rural Poverty Report 2001, the International Fund for Agricultural
Development argues that, to be successful, poverty-reduction policies
must focus on rural areas. To overcome disadvantages stemming from remoteness,
lack of education and health care, insecure and unproductive jobs, high
fertility and (often) discrimination as women or ethnic minorities, the
rural poor need: legally secure entitlements to assets (especially land
and water); technology (above all for increasing the output and yield
of food staples); access to markets; opportunities to participate in decentralized
resource management; and access to microfinance. |
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UN
Millennium
Development Goals Report 2007 
United Nations, New York,
June 2007.
This report is based on a master set of data that
has been
compiled
by an
Inter-Agency
and
Expert Group on MDG Indicators led by the Department
of Economic and Social Affairs
of the United Nations Secretariat, in response to the
wishes of the General Assembly for
periodic assessment of progress towards the MDGs.
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COMBATING
POVERTY- Report of the Secretary-General
E/CN.17/2001/PC/5. Prepared
by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the
United Nations Secretariat as task manager for chapter 3
of Agenda 21, with contributions from United Nations agencies
and international organizations. March 2001. |
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UNDP
UNFPA
Framework
for Action on Adolescents and Youth
United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA, 2007,
46p
UNFPA’s Framework for Action on Adolescents and Youth articulates
a corporate strategy for working with Governments and partners in promoting
the comprehensive development of young people worldwide. At a time when
the global community is increasingly focused on poverty reduction and broader
national development goals, the Framework outlines UNFPA’s policy
and programme priorities on young people and its contributions with others
to the development agenda. This Framework lays out the key elements that
every UNFPA-supported adolescent and youth programme should have, while
recognizing their diverse needs and regional and country-level variations.
The "Four Keys" guiding UNFPA's efforts include: creating a supportive
policy environment; facilitating gender-sensitive, life skills-based SRH
education; promoting a core package of SRH services; and fostering young
people's leadership and participation. |
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THE
STATE OF WORLD POPULATION 2004 - Population, Reproductive Health and The
Global Effort to End Poverty
United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA, 2004.
ISBN: 0-89714-720-0.
Countries are making real progress in carrying out a bold global action
plan that links poverty alleviation to women's rights and universal access
to reproductive health. Ten years into the new era opened by the 1994
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo,
the quality and reach of family planning programmes have improved, safe
motherhood and HIV prevention efforts are being scaled up, and governments
embrace the ICPD Programme of Action as an essential blueprint for realizing
development goals. |
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Population,
Environment and Poverty Linkages
United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA, 2001.
This report provides an overview of the complex interrelations between
population, the environment and poverty and the operational challenges
they engender. The report documents UNFPA support for a number of programme
initiatives in this area, and concludes that in order to achieve the mutually
reinforcing UNCED and ICPD goals, mainstreamed in the Millennium Declaration,
actions are required by both developed and developing countries. |
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WorldBank
World
Development Report (WDR) 2006: Equity and development
World Bank, September 2005. ISBN: 0-8213-6249-6
SKU: 16249
This year's Word Development Report (WDR), the twenty-eighth, looks at the
role of equity in the development process. It defines equity in terms of
two basic principles. The first is equal opportunities: that a person's
chances in life should be determined by his or her talents and efforts,
rather than by pre-determined circumstances such as race, gender, social
or family background. The second principle is the avoidance of extreme deprivation
in outcomes, particularly in health, education and consumption levels. This
principle thus includes the objective of poverty reduction. |
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World
Development Report (WDR) 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty
World Bank, August 2000. ISBN: 0-19-521129-4
SKU: 61129.
At the start of a new century, poverty remains a global problem of huge
proportions. World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty argues
that major reductions in all dimensions of poverty are possible--that
the interaction of markets, state institutions, and civil societies can
harness the forces of economic integration and technological change to
serve the interests of poor people and increase their share of society's
prosperity. |
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PANOS
REDUCING
POVERTY: Is the World Bank's strategy working?
The Panos Institute; August 2002. Panos
Report No 45. London, UK. ISBN 1-870670-60-4
Three years after the World
Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) introduced their Poverty
Reduction Strategy (PRS) approach as the latest template for the
world’s poorest countries to get out of poverty, a Panos report
examines the progress so far and the arguments about whether PRS
can succeed.
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Indicators
EC - poverty and social exclusion
MDGs
Worldbank
Links and Resources
UN resources
 Agenda 21, Chapter 3
UN
Social Policy and Dev.
Decade
for the Eradication of Poverty
UN
Millenium Poverty TF
UNEP
Poverty and Environment Unit
UNESCO/Anti-Poverty
WorldBank/PovertyNet
Non-UN resources
Poverty
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