Resilient Communities
Government can help to alleviate poverty by climate-Smart, affordable social housing for all with clean water and sanitation, clean energy, parks ,markets ,schools ,public transport and healthcare facilities (insurance ,free medical camps). Resilient communities are characterized by strong social networks, access to resources, and the ability to mobilize collective action. These communities are better equipped to respond to crises, whether they are natural disasters like floods or economic downturns that threaten livelihoods.Financial pathways to climate-resilient housing are Mortage, Microfinancing, Loan,Open dialogues between Community saving groups (developers and service providers) and local Government.
Economic security: Entrepreneurship and Vocational training Programmes
Economic security means people have the skills and resilience to withstand hard economic times and grow their incomes. Globally, nearly 1 in 4 young people – 289 million – were not in education, employment or training.
Government, NGOS and Private sector need to work together to encourage small industries which encourages skill development programmes and vocational training to produce a skilled workforce. Best quality skills and vocational training should be provided to youth that match labour market demands, give them access to social protection and basic services regardless of their contract type, so that all aspiring youth can attain productive employment, regardless of their gender, income level or socio-economic background.
Entrepreneurship opportunities in rural areas can help reducing urban-rural income gap and migration, which can help to reduce rural poverty. Microfinance institutions or government support programmes can empower people to start their own small businesses and grow. They have the potential to derive sustainable economic growth and reduce poverty. Governments can help by creating job opportunities for the poor and the marginalized.
Social Protection
Social protection schemes can be financed through contributions from wages (social insurance) or through general taxation (social assistance).Social protection programmes (like cash transfers, health insurance, education fee waivers, and maternity benefits) in communities that need them the most, allowing people to purchase the tools and services they need to become self-sufficient.Reduce government taxes for the people who are facing poverty.Sometimes, a small startup grant (even as small as $100) is all it takes to help a family living below the poverty line to launch a new business while keeping on top of their bills and keeping their children fed. Between 1998 and 2018, Cambodia’s economy grew by an average of 8% each year, and its middle class began to flourish.
Digital agriculture and land reforming for rural development
From drought in the Horn of Africa to floods in Pakistan, India and monsoon season in Bangladesh, we can’t prevent the natural disasters that are becoming more frequent and destructive year after year. But we can help the communities most vulnerable to these crises become better prepared in order to protect their farms, their homes, their loved ones, and their livelihoods.
Eco-friendly farming techniques such as Climate Smart Agriculture preserve vital topsoil, allowing land to recover from degradation, and better adapt to extreme weather. Young people are smart, energetic, innovative and capable of integrating technology into Agriculture. Challenges preventing youth from fully engaging in farming, most notably lack of financing, land, markets and training. There is a need to link youths involved in digital agriculture with substantial financial inclusion, investment support from both the private and public sectors, and tailored agricultural training.
Addressing food insecurity through empowerment of rural poor female farmers. Women are the backbone of our work in agriculture, when women have opportunities, the yields on their farms increase – also their incomes. Natural resources are better managed. Nutrition is improved. And livelihoods are more secured.
Waste less food and support local farmers. 13% of world’s food is lost after harvesting and 17% of food is wasted at the consumer level.Food that is lost, discarded and wasted can feed 2 billion or more unnourished people.
Population Control
Population control can be achieved by overall development of women. Women need to be developed socially, economically and educationally to decide and take measures to control family size. Further, delayed marriage, medical facilities, Incentives and awareness can control population.
Gender Equality
Gender equality is necessary for peaceful world. Expanding women’s access to formal, decent jobs and to social welfare programmes—such as healthcare, pensions systems that recognize unpaid care work, and full maternity protection—lays the foundation for economic empowerment. As human beings, our well- being is linked to each other.
Universal access to education is the best weapon and most impactful intervention in breaking the cycle of inter-generational poverty. Research has proven the incredible power of education to economically empower individuals from the most marginalized communities. It is essential to focus on cost-effective approaches to maximize the effectiveness of educational spending and enhance learning outcomes. Education provides skills that boost employment opportunities and incomes while helping to protect people from socio-economic vulnerabilities. A new UNESCO report shows that the global poverty rate could be more than halved if all adults completed secondary school. If all adults completed secondary education, 420 million could be lifted out of poverty, reducing the total number of poor people by more than half globally and by almost two-thirds in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
And if all students in low-income countries had just basic reading skills, almost 171 million people could escape extreme poverty. A more equitable expansion of education is likely to reduce inequality, lifting the poorest from the bottom of the ladder.
Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the highest out-of-school rates for all age groups: more than half (57%) of all youth between the ages of 15 and 17 are not in school, as are more than one-third (36%) of adolescents between 12 and 14 years and one-fifth (21%) of children between the ages of about 6 and 11. Six countries are home to more than one-third of all out-of-school children of primary age: Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Sudan.
Education for All: Digitalization Is the Key
Digital education is the key to make the education systems more crisis-proof (Pandemics, natural disasters and civil wars). If there is no internet, then perhaps things will work on the radio or via mobile communication. If there is no electricity, then maybe batteries, generators or solar power can be used. It is estimated US$ 1.4 trillion is needed for universal digital learning for 2021-2030 period. Each dollar spent on education yields US$10 to US$15 in economic growth over a child’s lifetime.
Further, Formal ( school) and non Formal education (interactions with friends, family and work colleagues) is also the best weapon through which we can fight poverty but only if it is provided equally.