Accelerating Africa’s progress in eradicating poverty and reducing inequality : Aide-memoire

Abstract

The third session of the committee on social policy, poverty and gender will discuss the division’s vision, perspective and areas of focus in support of African countries, to accelerate progress on eradicating extreme poverty and reducing inequality, and achieve inclusive growth and sustainable development. Despite faster growth in many countries since the early 2000s, and the recent uptick in the poverty reduction rate, extreme poverty is declining much too slowly for Africa to meet sustainable development goal 1 by 2030.The overall objective of the third session of the committee on social policy, poverty and gender is to review and provide strategic orientation to the work of the division, in line with its overarching framework on ending poverty in all its forms, and reducing inequality within and among countries.