This year marks the 28th anniversary of the Declaration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (IDEP) by the United Nations General Assembly. The IDEP is a special day when people living in poverty take the floor and make their voices heard, demonstrating their wealth of wisdom, energy, and commitment to shaping the policies that directly affect their lives.
On this occasion, we highlight the online commemoration of the IDEP on October 15, 2021, under the theme "Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet." The session featured Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, Isabelle Perrin, ATD4 World Director-General, and Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.
Under the theme “Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet’’, the IDEP 2021 provided a unique forum to hear from those who are at the forefront of fighting poverty while facing the COVID-19 crisis and the effects of climate change. The event tapped into the expertise and experience of people living in persistent poverty, civil society organizations, UN agencies and government representatives on the design and implementation of solutions for ending poverty within planetary boundaries, dismantling structures of discrimination, and building on the human rights framework that places human dignity at the heart of policy action. UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner provided the introductory remarks.Watch the event.
Virtual launch of the 2021 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index Report
With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to disrupt lives worldwide, UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) co-hosted the launch of the 2021 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index Report, providing new estimates on multidimensional poverty across 109 countries and 5.9 billion people. The event highlighted key findings of the report and bold, transformative actions needed to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions. The session featured leaders from government, international organizations, civil society, and academia, including Mr. Achim Steiner, Administrator, UNDP, Ms. Yanchun Zhang, Chief Statistician, UNDP, and Ms. Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI. Watch the recording.
Global Inclusive Growth Summit: Rebuilding for All
To mobilize collective action and commitment towards "rebuilding an economy that works for everyone, everywhere", the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and the Aspen Institute co-hosted the 2021 Global Inclusive Growth Summit on 14 October 2021. The event gathered world leaders to raise awareness and develop new partnerships to advance solutions towards inclusive and sustainable economies and societies. Featured speakers included Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States, Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, H.M Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA), and Okonjo-Iweala has been serving as Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Explore more.
Publications and Resources
2021 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index Report: Unmasking disparities by ethnicity, caste, and gender
The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) has become a fundamental tool for understanding the situation of people living in poverty and measuring progress against the Sustainable Development Goal of ending poverty ‘in all its forms, everywhere’. This report provides updated global estimates on multidimensional poverty and new research on how poverty is experienced differently between ethnic groups and across genders. The report reveals that some 1.3 billion people are multidimensionally poor and that disparities in multidimensional poverty across ethnic and racial groups are often greater than disparities across subnational regions. Check out the report.
Global Economic Resilience: Building Forward Better
The independent G7 Economic Resilience Panel, reporting directly to G7 Leaders, was tasked to develop evidence-based policy options that strengthen global economic resilience to future shocks. This report outlines the work of the Panel in 2021, and its final policy recommendations, based on engagement and research throughout the year. The Panel concluded that investment, standards, and governance reform will be critical to building resilience against future shocks, including from climate and pandemics. These reforms cover three main categories of risk to economic resilience: environmental and health, geo-political and socio-economic. Read here.
Seven Transformations for More Equitable and Sustainable
As part of the World Resources Report series, "Towards a More Equal City," this synthesis report offers seven crucial transformations needed to build city-wide prosperity and better environmental quality for all. Covering infrastructure design and delivery, service provision, data collection, urban employment, finance, land management, and governance, these transformations require policymakers to break out of silos, build new partnerships, and embrace new resources, technologies, and policy innovations. The report represents the culmination of six years of work from 160+ authors and reviewers across the globe. Check out the report.
CoP Recommendation
Book Recommendation: The Rise of the Enabling State: Social innovations in the service of social and ecological transformation Olivier de Schutter and Tom Dedeurwaerdere - OCTOBER 2021
Addressing the pressing challenges of persistent poverty and inequalities and climate change and environmental damage demand radical social transformations and innovations. Co-authored by Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, and Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Professor of philosophy of science and theory of governance at the Université catholique de Louvain, this book analyzes how citizens-led social innovations can facilitate lifestyle changes and how an “enabling State” can create the background conditions to allow such innovations to emerge and to flourish. Explore the book
Podcast Recommendation: Women in Economics - Jayati Ghosh on Unpaid Care Work IMF Podcast Series - OCTOBER 2021 - LISTEN HERE
The IMF Women in Economics series showcases extraordinary work by extraordinary women. In this second episode, journalist Rhoda Metcalfe speaks with Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose work on gender issues and the public value of care work gives voice to the unpaid caregivers who form the economic base for societies around the world. In this podcast, Ghosh says our whole notion of productivity and growth is inadequate because most care work is not captured in GDP estimates. Curious to know more? Listen here.
Top Pick
Six Faces of Globalization: Paul Krugman and Branko Milanovic in conversation with Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp
In dialogue with Paul Krugman and Branko Milanovic, leading international law scholar Anthea Roberts and Nicholas Lamp, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, Ontario, speak about their new co-authored book, “Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters.” The session discussed six competing narratives about the virtues and vices of globalization, including the “win-win” view that globalization benefits everyone, the pessimistic belief that it threatens us all with pandemics and climate change, along with various rival accounts that focus on specific winners and losers. Watch here.
Engage Further
UNDP's HIV, Health, and Development Strategy
ONLINE CONSULTATION - THROUGH 2 NOVEMBER - JOIN HERE
The UNDP Health team recently launched a consultation to update the HIV, Health and Development Strategy 2016-2021. The HIV, Health and Development Strategy 2022-2025: Connecting the Dots will elaborate UNDP's work on HIV and health in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the commitment to leave no one behind. As an organization focused on health as a driver, indicator and outcome of development, UNDP has an important role in supporting health outcomes by helping countries to address the social, cultural, economic, legal and commercial determinants of HIV and health. This is done through UNDP’s core work in reducing inequalities and social exclusion that drive HIV and poor health, promoting effective and inclusive governance for health and building resilient and sustainable systems for health. This consultation seeks - your contributions will be used to shape key priorities and actions for UNDP's strategic work ahead. Add your voice here!
The next Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025 will raise the ambition of UNDP's work by integrating power relations into development solutions and tackling social, political and economic drivers of inequalities. It aims to be practical, actionable, and usable and will target institutional trigger points to bring transformation from within. The Strategy development process is grounded in co-creation and co-ownership, done with and for UNDP country offices, and is aligned with the UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025. Join us and have your say in how UNDP’s work can be a game-changer for gender equality in the future! Help UNDP co-create this strategy by adding your voice and perspective here, now through 25 October.
Massive Open Online Course: Infrastructure Asset Management for Sustainable Development
This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Infrastructure Asset Management for Sustainable Development is a self-paced course developed by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. The course addresses a set of key questions: What assets do people need? How can these assets be made to last the longest and perform the best? How can their potential to save or generate revenue be maximized so as to unlock financial resources for other community needs, now and in the future? Interested in joining? Register for free here!
Upcoming Events
Gender Equality and Social Protection: Innovation, SDG Acceleration and Catalytic Effect of Joint Programmes Supported by the UN Joint SDG Fund
VIRTUAL EVENT - 27 OCTOBER | 10am EST - REGISTER HERE
Adapting GBV Interventions: Insights from Indashyikirwa in Lebanon
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