** This meeting has been postponed to a later date. The new date will be posted as soon as it is established. **

With little more than a decade left to achieve the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, the world is not on track to end global extreme poverty by 2030. While economic development has delivered enormous benefits across the globe, lifting 1.2 billion people out of extreme poverty since 1990, the world remains off-track toward eliminating poverty by 2030. In 2015, 10 percent (736 million people) were still living on less than $1.90 a day compared to 35.9 percent (1.89 billion people) in 1990.

Recognizing the urgency to end poverty and hunger everywhere between now and 2030, the Division for Inclusive Social Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization and International Fund for Agricultural Development are organizing a United Nations inter-agency expert group meeting on “The Third United Nations Decade for Poverty Eradication (2018-2027)”, to be held in Rome, Italy, from 4 to 6 March 2020, as part of the preparations for the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together experts from the United Nations system, government, academia, think thanks, as well as civil society organizations to:

1. Discuss key questions related to the implementation of the United Nations system-wide plan of action for the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, including the role that United Nations system can play to accelerate global actions for a world without poverty;
2. Reflect on progress made and persistent and emerging challenges toward ending poverty in all its forms everywhere;
3. Review lessons learnt from designing and implementing poverty eradication strategies at various levels that can be leveraged to spur further progress in those countries or regions lagging further behind and to contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
4. Share country perspectives for better support from the United Nations system; and
5. Come up with policy recommendations on how the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027) be made effective, and ensuring that no one is left behind.

Aide Memoire

Agenda

Logistical Information

Papers

• Note on Poverty and Conflict in Arab States by Khalid Abu-Ismail
• Challenges ahead: climate change in the context of weak institutions by Edidah L. Ampaire
• Accelerating global actions for a world without poverty: Egypt Experiences by Dina M. Armanious
• Greening with Jobs: World Employment Social Outlook 2018 by Amber Barth
• Social programmes, poverty eradication and labour inclusion. Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean by Simone Cecchini
• Assessing Present and Future Global Poverty: Prospects and Challenges for achieving SDG1 by Jesus Crespo Cuaresma
• Accelerating global actions for a world without poverty: the experience of Mali by Nango Dembele
• Industrial Development Report 2020: Industrializing in the digital age: Overview by Ayumi Fujino
• Governance Making Institutions Work for Rural Revitalization by Katrina Kosec and Danielle Resnick
• Tackling Discriminatory Labour Practices, Labour Market Segmentation and Gender Pay Gaps by Venge Nyirongo
• Delivering on SDG8 – Integrated pathways to economic transformation and inclusive labour markets by Aurelio Parisotto
• Promoting policy coherence and system-wide actions for a world without poverty: gaps, challenges and progress for the UN system by Stephen Pursey
• Overview: Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues, Policies and Challenges by David Suttie
• Social protection for rural areas: what does it look like and what is needed? by Natalia Winder Rossi
• Building productive capacities and transforming economies to achieve sustained and inclusive development in Africa by Patrick N. Osakwe
• Poverty Eradication through Safe, Humane and Orderly Migration by Sandra Paola Alvarez

Presentations

• Accelerating global actions for a world without poverty: Egypt Experiences by Dina M. Armanious
• Accelerating global actions for a world without poverty: the experience of Mali by Nango Dembele
• Promoting policy coherence and system-wide actions for a world without poverty by Stephen Pursey
• Overcoming Child Poverty: Progress and Challenges in Child Sensitive Social Protection by Alexandra Yuster
• Assessing Present and Future Global Poverty: Prospects and Challenges for Achieving SDG1 by Jesus Crespo Cuaresma
• Accelerating global progress to create decent employment by Aurelio Parisotto

Resources

• A System-Wide Plan of Action for the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027)
• Implementation of the Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018–2027)