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The Sustainable Development Goals in Jordan
End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Goal 1 Targets
1.1 By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.2 By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.3 Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
1.4 By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
1.5 By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.A Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.B Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
Source: UN Sustainable Development
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations Office for Project Services
Implementing partners
Ministry of Municipalities
Syrian Refugee Affairs Directorate (SRAD)
Winterization TF and Common Cash Facility
Ministry of Social Development
National Aid Fund (NAF)
Tkiyet Um Ali (TUA)
Government of Jordan
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)
Investing Partners
Denmark's development cooperation (DANIDA)
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM)-USAID
Government of Germany
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Locations of our Key Initiatives Linked to this Sustainable Development Goal
Our work on SDG 1 is linked to these other Sustainable Development Goals:
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