Sustainable Development Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Click on the case studies below to find out what programs, projects and policies are being implemented in cities around the globe to accomplish Goal 1.
Learn more about the targets and indicators of SDG 1 at UN Sustainbale Development Knowledge Platform.
49 case studies available.
The programme intended to transform the Municipal Corporation into a more effective organisation to improve municipal service delivery.
This project is designed to support (national) government efforts to institutionalise participatory urban governance approaches and to assist selected municipal councils.
The Chintan recycling project at the New Delhi Railway Station manages tons of unsorted garbage every day and enables waste-pickers to carry out their livelihoods in a clean and dignified work environment.
A programme to connect 200,000 poor households to the public electricity grid.
The project for self-sustaining agriculture focuses on local families and especially on the women who have organized themselves in almost 600 community organizations in order to take care of daily issues in residential areas.
In 2004, the municipality initiated the community ablution blocks (CABs) programme to provide communal water and sanitation facilities to un-served informal settlements in the urban and peri-urban areas of eThekwini.
An integrated and inclusive transport system to reduce marginalization of poor communities.
This project advises concepts and methods of participatory community development and grass roots based waste management in informal urban areas.
A programme to provide women living in slums leadership skills andrrisk reduction training.
