Related Sites

1. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO):
• Sustainable Development - Poverty
2. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD):
• Strategic Framework for IFAD 2002-2006
• Rural poverty knowledgebase
• Rural Poverty Portal
3. International Labour Organisation (ILO):
• Strategies and Tools Against Social Exclusion and Poverty (STEP)

4. International Monetary Fund (IMF):
• The Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (factsheet, August 2006)
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)
5. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
• Human rights dimension of poverty
• Independent Expert on extreme poverty
6. United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF):
• Making investments in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs),
  designed to help the LDCs reduce poverty and achieve the objectives of the
  Brussels Programme of Action for the LDCs and the Millennium Development Goals
7. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF):
• Press releases and news notes
• State of the World's Children, Chapter 2: Children living in poverty
• Publications about Debt, poverty and development
• Poverty reduction starts with children
• Voices of Youth: Children living in poverty
8. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD):
• Trade and Development Report 2006 - Global partnership and national policies for development
9. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
• Poverty Reduction
• UNDP's work on poverty reduction at country level
• The International Poverty Centre
10. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO):
• Poverty: the human rights approach
• The fight against extreme poverty - an intersectoral challenge for UNESCO (in PDF Format)
11. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA):
• Population and Poverty: Reducing Poverty and Achieving Sustainable Development
• Mapping Poverty and Other MDG Indicators
• Publication: Population and Poverty - Achieving Equity, Equality and Sustainability
12. World Bank:
• PovertyNet provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners.
• Newsletter
• World Development Report
13. World Food Programme (WFP):
• Food aid can break the cycle of poverty
14. World Health Organisation (WHO):
• Poverty and Health
• Health and development
• Commission on Social Determinants of Health
15. Regional Commissions:
• Africa: MDGs Goal 1 - Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
• Asia and the Pacific:
  • Poverty and Development
  • Committee on Poverty Reduction (Third Session):
    29 November 2006 - 1 December 2006
• Europe: The Millennium Development Goals -A pan-European perspective
• Latin America and the Caribbean: MDG Goal 1
• Western Asia:
  • Modern Technologies for Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction
  • Women and Poverty