Are countries committed to ending child poverty by 2030? A review of VNR reports from 2017 to 2020
Ending poverty in all its forms for everyone, including for children, is at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted five years ago by the global community. The SDG Agenda provides a clear framework for action: Countries must eradicate extreme child poverty by 2030 as internationally defined (PPP $1.90) and halve the number of children living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions.
One way to gauge progress on SDG implementation is to survey the data and the narrative content that countries present in their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs).
This Coalition brief is the second annual analysis of the VNRs from a child poverty perspective, looking at how countries mention and discuss their efforts to end child poverty, through measurement and policies. This analysis builds upon last year’s brief developed by the Coalition, which reviewed VNRs from 2017, 2018, and 2019.
Title: Are countries committed to ending child poverty by 2030? A review of VNR reports from 2017 to 2020
Author/s: Global Coalition to End Child Poverty
Publication date: October 2020
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