Monday 17 October 2016 marked this year’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty; the theme this year was “Moving from humiliation and exclusion to participation: Ending poverty in all its forms”.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere” explicitly recognises that poverty results not from the lack of just one thing but from many different interrelated factors that affect the lives of people living in poverty.
This means it is important to go beyond seeing poverty merely as the lack of income or what is necessary for material well-being — such as food, housing, land, and other assets – in order to fully understand poverty in its multiple dimensions.
The theme this year: “From – selected in consultation with activists, civil society and non-governmental organisations – highlights how important it is to recognise and address the humiliation and exclusion endured by many people living in poverty.
The Luxembourgish Cooperation has always placed the eradication of poverty at the heart of its association and development programmes. One example of its contribution to the fight to increase citizen participation and inclusion is its 2012-2017 PIC III programme for decentralisation and public education in Senegal. One of the project’s major objectives is to support initiatives in civil society which aim to improve local governance.
