Sustainable Development Goal 1: End Poverty in all its forms everywhere (Draft Scoping Report)
Author: Bea Andrea C. Gavira, Yasmin Nikkaela I. Cajipe
Abstract:
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 aims to end poverty in all its forms everywhere by addressing its multidimensional nature, including income, access to basic services, and resilience against shocks. In the Philippines, monitoring SDG 1 is crucial to ensure that policies and programs effectively reduce poverty and improve the lives of the most vulnerable. This scoping report assesses the availability, quality, and methodological readiness of the Tier 2 and Tier 3 indicators under SDG 1 in the Philippines. The study focuses on four indicators: (1) secure tenure rights to land (1.4.2), (2) direct economic loss attributed to disasters (1.5.2), (3) official development assistance for poverty reduction (1.a.1), and (4) pro-poor public social spending (1.b.1). Results highlight persistent data challenges, such as the absence of direct data for land tenure security, limitations in economic loss estimates to large-scale disasters, the lack of a dedicated published breakdown for ODA grants targeting poverty reduction, and the absence of an established methodology to monitor pro-poor social spending. Given the complexity of addressing these issues, no SDG 1 indicators are currently recommended for further methodological research.
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