Eradicating Rural Poverty to Implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

A/RES/74/237View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 22d Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, published in 2019.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 2019–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/154

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/154	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	4,513	81%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/225	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	4,470	92%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/165	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	4,357	95%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/183	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	4,242	85%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/219	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	3,765	90%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

8 reports · 2019–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/294	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/154
2025	A/80/282	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/225
2024	A/79/248	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/165
2023	A/78/238	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/183
2022	A/77/209	Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/219

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Poverty Mitigation Rural Development Rural Poverty Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

20 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General⁵ and the recommendations contained therein;

⁵A/74/257.

Reaffirms that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, for all people everywhere, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, as well as an overarching objective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,⁶ of which the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development⁷ is an integral part, supporting and complementing it;

⁶Resolution 70/1.

⁷Resolution 69/313, annex.

Expresses its deep concern that the progress in reducing poverty remains uneven, with 1.46 billion people still living in multidimensional poverty, and that this number continues to be significant and unacceptably high, whereas the levels of inequality in income, wealth and opportunities remain high or are increasing in a number of countries, and the non-income dimensions of poverty and deprivation, such as access to quality education or basic health services, and relative poverty remain major concerns, and stresses the importance of national and global efforts to create conditions for sustainable development, inclusive and sustained economic growth, shared prosperity and decent work for all in society, taking into account different levels of national development capacities;

Recognizes the importance of promoting socioeconomic development in rural areas as an effective strategy and important means at the global level for the eradication of poverty, including extreme poverty, and therefore underlines the importance of shaping a rural poverty eradication pattern with the concerted efforts of the whole of society to promote socioeconomic development in rural areas;

Emphasizes that economic growth continues to leave rural dwellers behind, that in 2015, 79 per cent of the people living in extreme poverty lived in rural areas and 41 per cent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa lived on less than $1.90 per day, and recommends that countries promote dedicated and coordinated social, economic, agricultural and rural development in their national policies, including by adopting rural-focused poverty eradication strategies in alignment with the 2030 Agenda, social policies aimed at improving human capital in rural areas and ensuring access to adequate social protection coverage, agricultural policies aimed at boosting agricultural productivity, and rural development policies aimed at improving access to rural infrastructure and basic services of high quality and at boosting non-farm employment opportunities;

Recognizes the critical role and contribution of rural women, including smallholders and women farmers, and indigenous women and women in local communities, and their traditional knowledge in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty;

Stresses the importance of taking targeted measures to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, by formulating rural development strategies with clear poverty eradication goals, strengthening national statistical capacity and monitoring systems and implementing nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all;

Recognizes the importance of employment for pro-poor growth in rural areas, and encourages the United Nations system and development partners to assist countries, upon their request, in mainstreaming employment into investment policy and poverty reduction strategies, including those focused on rural area development, and fostering rapid agricultural productivity growth, especially in developing countries, by increasing investment in agricultural and related rural off-farm activities;

Also recognizes the need to design, implement and pursue gender-responsive economic and social policies aimed at, inter alia, eradicating poverty, including in rural areas, and combating the feminization of poverty, ensuring the full and equal participation of rural women in the development, implementation and follow-up of development policies and programmes and poverty eradication strategies, supporting increased rural employment and decent work, and promoting the participation of women at all levels and sectors of the rural economy and in diverse on-farm and off-farm economic activities, including sustainable agricultural and fisheries production;

Encourages Member States, international organizations, the private sector and other partners to develop programmes to foster the creation of decent work in rural areas and increase the investment in agricultural and related off-farm activities, especially for young people;

Emphasizes that, globally, 2 billion people, primarily in rural areas in developing countries, do not have access to formal financial services, and encourages further efforts of the international community to offer affordable ways to access finance for the financially excluded in rural areas;

Also emphasizes the need to increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, especially in roads, water, sanitation and electricity;

Expresses its commitment to raising public awareness to promote the eradication of poverty and extreme poverty in all countries, to mobilizing the enthusiasm and creativity of all stakeholders, especially the rural residents living in extreme poverty, to fight against poverty, to promoting their active participation in the design and implementation of programmes and policies which affect them, and to providing quality education for the rural poor, with the aim of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;

Reiterates the need for enhanced and expanded access by developing countries to appropriate technologies that are pro-poor and raise productivity, and underlines the need for measures to increase investment in agriculture, including modern technologies, as well as in natural resources management and capacity-building of developing countries;

Stresses that the achievement of sustainable development and the eradication of poverty also hinge on the ability and readiness of countries to effectively mobilize domestic resources, attract foreign direct investment, fulfil official development assistance commitments and use official development assistance effectively, and facilitate the transfer of technology to developing countries, on mutually agreed terms, and further stresses that the resolution of unsustainable debt situations is critical for heavily indebted poor countries, while remittances have become a significant source of income and finance for receiving economies and their contribution to the achievement of sustainable development;

Recognizes the importance of addressing the diverse needs of and challenges faced by countries in special situations, in particular African countries, the least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, as well as the specific challenges facing many middle-income countries, and therefore requests the United Nations development system, the international financial institutions, regional organizations and other stakeholders to ensure that these diverse and specific development needs are appropriately considered and addressed, in a tailored fashion, in their relevant strategies and policies, with a view to promoting a coherent and comprehensive approach towards individual countries;

Realizes that bridging the digital divide will require strong commitment by all relevant stakeholders at the national and international levels, reiterates the importance of investing in infrastructure for greater access to affordable technological devices and services for rural populations, which includes leveraging technology-enabled financial services and financial technologies to promote financial inclusion, and encourages efforts by all relevant stakeholders, especially United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, in the spirit of win-win cooperation, to assist developing countries in overcoming the digital divide and promoting the use of information and communication technologies to foster economic and social development, particularly in rural areas, with the aim of building a shared future for humankind;

Recognizes the devastating impact of diseases on societies, and calls for measures by relevant United Nations bodies, in accordance with their respective mandates, and other stakeholders to make good use of their experience and advantages to further help developing countries with the aim of improving rural development planning, including poverty eradication and multisectoral development activities covering economic and social aspects, including the gender perspective;

Reiterates the urgent need to accelerate the pace of rural poverty eradication, and requests the Secretary-General, in close collaboration with the secretariat of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as well as other relevant international organizations, to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session a report on the status of the implementation of and follow-up to the present resolution in order to identify the progress achieved, gaps and challenges faced in rural poverty eradication, especially in developing countries, as well as the means of implementation to address this issue, and to list rural poverty eradication as a priority for an annual moment to highlight inspiring action on the Goals, in the context of the general debate of the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fifth session, under the item entitled “Eradication of poverty and other development issues”, the sub-item entitled “Eradicating rural poverty to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.

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