Overview about Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 (No Poverty) from a global perspective
Question
Task: Identify the aims of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 (No Poverty). What is there response towards the crises faced by them? With the aid of an Australian organisation explain how it is trying to achieve the SDG. Establish a connection between your course of study and the SDG.
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Introduction
Sustainable development goal (SDG) is defined as the shared plan of the world to reduce inequality, severe poverty, and planet protection. Sustainable development goal is based on four different principles namely planet, people, prosperity, partnership, and peace. This study will highlight on Sustainable development goal (SDG 1)- NO POVERTY, which focuses on eradicating all formsof poverty by 2030 (Zakari et al., 2022).
Aim of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 (No Poverty)
The primary aim of no poverty is to visualize shared benefits of standard of living, prosperity, and social protection would-wide including the vulnerable and poor community of people. This aims ensure equal access and rights to natural and economic resources amongst all the communities. The future aim of Sustainable development goal (SDG1) are as follows (Global Goals 2022):
1. Eradicate extreme poverty by 2030
2. Reducing poverty by more than 50% in equal proportion of men, women, and children.
3. Implementing social protection measures and system by 2030.
4. Ensuring all women and men particularly of vulnerable and poor society, having equal rights to basic services, economic resources, technology, and ownership.
5. By 2030, building resilience for the poor and vulnerable people towards social, economic, and environmental disasters.
6. Ensuring significant utilization of resource to execute policies for eradicating poverty.
7. Generating different policy frameworks at international and nation levels to support poor people and support the target.
Response towards the crises from global perspective
There are 17 sustainable development goal that were founded by the united natin (UN) in 2015 to eradicate all forms of poverty. In between 2015 to 2018, the global poverty had furthered declined from 10.1% in 2015 to 8.6% in 2018. The crisis that the world was going throughincluding poor sanitation, unhygienic drinking water, lack of nutritious food, poor technology, no environmental resilience has resultedin the development of sustainabledevelopment goal 1- “NO POVERTY” (Desmond 2022). The large group pf people are suffering from the crisis of to meet and fulfil their basic needs including education, health, and sanitation, thereby resulting in increasing poverty. The main crisis underlying no poverty is displacement, as displacement worsens poverty, where people are compelled to leave behind their properties and even sell them due to the conflict within the countries and survive in foreign country. The displaced population of people suffer fromhigher degree of poverty as compared to the people residing in their host country as per conflict. For example, approximately two-thirds of Syrian migrantsstay in poverty and are unable to fulfil their basic needs. Syrians who were banished in North Africa and Middle East countries have higher levels of poverty that are amongst 18-62% higher as compared toindigenous counterparts (Sustainable development platform 2022).
Australian Bureau of Statistics trying to reach Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 (No Poverty)
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) was established by the Australia Bureau of Statistics Act 1975 and the Census and Statics Act 1905, as an individual statutory legislative and authority with primary purpose to the central state authority serving the Australian government. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is one of independent constitutionalorganizationdeveloped by the Australian Government accountable for statistical compilationand analysis (Madden, Fortune and Gordon 2022). It also provides evidence-based guidance to territory, federal, and state governments. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) gathers and examines statistics on social, economic, population, and environmental issues, advertisingthem on the website. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) also manages the national Census of Population and Housing whichtake place in every five years.It is also involved with the United Nations Statistical Commission that deliver official Sustainable development goal (SDG) indicator framework supervision(Australian Bureau of Statistics 2022). Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is contributing towards the 2030 Agenda while 2015, that provides SDG indicator list therefore leading to the preliminary indicator set published in 2016. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is considered as the support agency for the Sustainable development goal (SDG) 1- No Poverty, being an active contributor in the complete government approach towards 2030 Agenda. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) contributes towards Australia’s first Voluntary National Review (VNR) and National Reporting Platform(2030 agenda on Sustainable Development 2020).
The primary purpose of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is to advise Australian government regarding the important judgment by providing trusted, objective, and relevant data, insights, and statistics.Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is Australia’s national statistical agency that provides trusted official data on a broad range of population, economic, environmental, and social matters of significance to Australia.Australian Bureau of Statistics highlights the indicators that are responsible achieving the sustainable development goal summarizing (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2022):
• 17 Goals which includes goals to eliminate inequality, hunger, and poverty.
• 169 Targets which breakdown the sustainable development goal (SDG) into wide outcomes.
• 244 Indicators which will define what is to be determined and how to determine each target.
The above-mentioned data provide by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) therefore assist the Australian government to track and make progress in achieving the sustainable development goal of no poverty. It is providing surveillance of the sustainable development goal indicators that would help the Australian government to coordinate and implement the 2030 Agenda and develops innovative, progressive, and comprehensive agendas towards the challenges faced by the world (Kok et al. 2022).
Connection of SDG with nursing course
Global poverty and Nursing intervention go hand in hand as for nurses improving a patient’s health means overcoming poverty at both national and international level. Poverty is intricately associated with the inequalities in the global healthcare sector. According to Yuchs and Bonham (2022), approximately 1.5 billion people reside in below poverty line and deprives them with the human rights and dignity. The poor people are unable to access the healthcare opportunities and suffers from extreme physical labour, environmental risk, and unhealthy diet. Nurses’ intervention assists in fighting poverty and improving the health condition of poor people as they consider poverty as thesocial determinantsof health. Based on nursing perspective, proper income, better healthcare services and improved approach to proper nutrition will help the poor people to fight for their healthcare rights and overcome their condition. The role of nursing in reducing poverty includes socio-political measures which aims to improve the overall health of the populace (Neto, Silva and Guimaraes 2022).
The healthcare promotion amongst the marginalized populations, including the indigenous sub-populations, the minorities, and the poor is considered as the essential public health programme.Community health nurses, plays a crucial role in achieving sustainable development goal, by providing care to the poor and needy people with health disparities.Community health nurses are better trained to focus on health issues such as HIV/AIDS, infant mortality, and prostitutionat community level.In poverty-affectedregions, the role of nurseexpands beyond care obligation to include advocacy which will help in implementing the 2030 Agenda. According toAvogadri(2022), “understanding how to support” not only includes aspects such as “treatment, prevention and health promotion”, but also includesapolitical and social evaluation of poor people.Nurses can suggest the policymakers toutilize diverse approachesthat will improve the wellbeing of the poor people. One such approach is using participatory approach which will involve the poor populationto identify their individual health care requirements. The poor people have a profoundknowledge of their individual health challenges and therefore, they must be referredfor formulating and implementing any policy interferences.Participation of poor people from every demographic areawill guarantee that the formulated health interferencesare successfully fulfilling the demands of the marginalized and poor population (Yuchs and Bonham 2022).
Conclusion
Hence, nurses play a major role in achieving the sustainable development goal by treating the poor and reducing poverty and helping the Australian government with making polices that will improve the health requirements of the country.
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