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.
Local economic development, participatory urban upgrading and environmental rehabilitation are the three pillars of the strategy
This project aims towards neighborhood improvement by combining upgrading of public space with capacity building.
Liberia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy initiates upgrading of five slums in Monrovia among its strategic priorities for poverty reduction
The programme showed significant results in poverty reduction and creating employment.
Inhabitants of a former informal settlement are supplied with clean water, sewage, and waste disposal.
The project is based on community participation as a way to improve municipal service delivery in four low-income neighbourhoods
Bogota, Colombia has used urban agriculture and farmers markets to help alleviate poverty and undernutrition while addressing ill health.
The mission of SOIL is to promote dignity, health, and sustainable livelihoods through the transformation of wastes into resources.
Social enterprise project addressing food security of vulnerable women and their families in Afghanistan.
