Ending Poverty and All Its Forms Everywhere

Question one 

Currently, the line of poverty on an international level is said to be at about $2 or below per each and every person on each particular day after using the 2011 United Nations’ purchasing power parity of the dollar. Beginning the year 2002, the number of population of the world living below poverty line reduced by half, that is from the previous 25 percent to 12 percent. Globally, poverty will significantly reduce if the growth rates prevail for the next 15 years given that growth benefits all income groups of the population equally ( Ite, 2007 ). Poverty elimination will need a vital change from the growth rates recorded with history. 

Broadening social cultural protection programmers and focusing essential schemes to the less privileged and most vulnerable can further reduce debt. Social security developers include social assistance, such as transfers of cash, feeding in schools, and food aid. Social insurance and labor market programmers, including old age pensions, unemployment insurance and skills training can also help ( Ite, 2007 ). Internationally, large number of children dies each and every day from poverty-related causes, and only 28 percent of women employed are sufficiently protected through maternity cash benefits. In low income generating countries, poor people remain outside social protection systems. 

Political stability also plays a role in the context of eliminating poverty. Eliminating poverty and all its forms will only be possible if countries will put in place stable governments with positive political ideologies that will come up with policies and procedures to curb and eradicate poverty. Similarly, science and technology also plays a role (Hwang and Tan, 2012). 

Question two 

Women empowerment and gender equality have the issues that have raised the central questions when it comes to eradication of poverty. Girls getting education has improved compared to recent years. Moreover, gender equality remains a challenge for countries globally, and lack of such balance is a serious problem to sustainable development. The first step in addressing discrimination is addressing the women's rights through acceptable frameworks ( Honey, 2008). Women and girls rights are violated when they are subjected to violence, and this profoundly hinders development towards eradicating poverty in our societies. A Greater percentage of such violence is brought about by intimate partners. 

Normally when women are asked for their pay in interviews, they ask less compared to men. This is one of the greatest challenges which breed inequality. Therefore, interviews should be fair and transparent salary range and ask those applicants to position themselves within it. Gender inequality should be made part of the training and education. Young people should be encouraged to choose jobs that suit their future regardless of sex ( Kates, Parris and Leiserowitz, 2005 ). Welcoming women to companies for interviews is one way of eradicating gender inequality. Women employees in enterprises should be increased on salaries and promotions thus encouraging them to feel equal. In other words, wages and promotions should continuously be monitored and evaluated on a regular basis to ensure equal treatment. Companies should offer different working options to all gender since in many times, women employees ask to work from home. Using the power of networking, mentoring and coaching opportunities helps women build their confidence in career development. This is the only sure step to eradicating poverty. 

Question Three 

Poverty is a serious problem in the society, and each and every person affected should take the initiative of actively and legitimately participating in efforts to fight poverty. Not only leaders should be consulted, but also the affected should be engaged in solving this problem. Participation of the members becomes part of the addressing process and resolving their problems. Organized groups should be created within the society to help a larger group of people instead of a few individuals. It is so since it is not enough to provide assistance affected individuals alone but entire organization (Hwang and Tan, 2012). Strategic steps are taken to address their problems and other problems in the future. 

People affected by levels of poverty should go through the process of fighting by raising the levels of consciousness about their situation and their efficiency to preserve their different efforts and also to address their various issues and problems. Fighting poverty is not a short termed process rather a simple one especially when long term results are needed. It takes a longer time than expected to facilitate the affected people so they can break the "culture of silence" and cultural actors of their development (Bramley et al., 2011). Hunger being one of the common problems that come a as result of poverty in underdeveloped countries, the strategies of resolving the predicament may be through an international organization like Heifer that transforms agriculture. They do transformation by funding some projects hence people can provide food for themselves in a sustainable way. It is so encouraging since we would ultimately like to see improved areas that are not reliant on aid from foreign countries and be able to create a steady supply of food. 

Accessing credits is also another way of eradicating poverty. Organizations are helping people in developing countries to gain access to loans. Although these securities are repaid, they would have created many industries such as farms that help to create a sustainable provision and also in developing nations economically ( Dempsey, Bramley, Power and Brown, 2011). Despite campaigning for self-dependence, it is not something which will happen overnight hence food donations will assist a big deal in ending hunger as the process of eradicating poverty continues. Having said this, it should still be noted that empowering the society through education, science, technology and offering equal opportunities remain a sure way of eradicating poverty on long term basis. 

Question Four 

Design plans for implementing the solutions 

To ensure that the poverty eradication plan works, food donations becomes plan must first be a success and the following should be considered: 

Recipient selection to receive the donations either by bank offering food locally or the anti-hunger agencies that provide food for the needy. 

Determining collection sites and who will deliver items to your recipients at the end of the drive is very essential. 

Participants should be communicated to above all information. 

Encouraging maximum participation and create promotional materials that will help build awareness about hunger issues. 

What follows is poverty eradication plan. To implement eradication of poverty, we should consider giving the poor people an ownership stake. Critically looking at any third world cities, you will find out that the residents themselves build settlements. A man will nail together a booth, at which he can sit and repair his neighbor's shoes. Linking up the villages is another significant factor in implementing eradication of poverty. Almost everything people need to live decently requires a road. Either dirt road with ditches or one built by the villagers themselves with local stones is excellent (Baumgartner, 2009). Fair interviews and regular salary and promotion implementation are achieved by using diverse resources of human capital. On the part of enhancing equal opportunities, it is vital to offer training of interviewers on inclusion, diversity, and bias. 

For any poverty eradication plan to work, there as to be set aside committees with qualified personnel who meets both professional and ethical qualifications that are predetermined for sch kind of responsibilities. 

Question Five 

Sustainable development is a concept rooted from ideas that came as a result of enhancing the environment for better inhabitation through tactics like forest management which were some of the 20 th century concerns. As this notion developed, the target has shifted more on the economic, social and cultural sustainability and stability of the generations to come (Hwang and Tan, 2012). 

The plan to eradicate poverty has been faced by various draw backs. They include lack of cooperation and commitment to fully implement and realize the goals and objectives of the plan. There is also resistance that is realized following lack of awareness by the public on the importance of the poverty eradication plans. On the other hand, the poverty eradication pans sometimes tend to exhibit unintended consequences. For instance, some end up creating more poverty that eradicating it in the long run. Such situations happen in cases where the committees embezzle funds and resources meant to spearhead the plans. All in all, the regions that make good use of these plans benefit the most while those that resist the plan end up with even elevated poverty levels (Hwang and Tan, 2012). In specific, the effort to end poverty and all of its forms in the entire world can be specifically attributed to the concerns that the world had over the marginalized communities and populations. Among these include the third world countries especially the sub-Saharan African countries that have been rocked with poverty and hunger ( Honey, 2008) . 

References  

Baumgartner, R. J. (2009). Organizational culture and leadership: Preconditions for the development of a sustainable corporation. Sustainable development , 17 (2), 102-113. 

Dempsey, N., Bramley, G., Power, S., & Brown, C. (2011). The social dimension of sustainable development: Defining urban social sustainability. Sustainable development , 19 (5), 289-300. 

Honey, M. (2008). Ecotourism and sustainable development: Who owns paradise? . Island Press. 

Hwang, B. G., & Tan, J. S. (2012). Green building project management: obstacles and solutions for sustainable development. Sustainable development , 20 (5), 335-349. 

Ite, U. E. (2007). Changing times and strategies: Shell's contribution to sustainable community development in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Sustainable development , 15 (1), 1-14. 

Kates, R. W., Parris, T. M., & Leiserowitz, A. A. (2005). What is sustainable development?. Environment , 47 (3), 8.