Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

No Poverty


Eradicating extreme poverty for all people everywhere by 2030 is a pivotal goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Extreme poverty, defined as surviving on less than $2.15 per person per day at 2017 purchasing power parity, has witnessed remarkable declines over recent decades.

However, the emergence of COVID-19 marked a turning point, reversing these gains as the number of individuals living in extreme poverty increased for the first time in a generation by almost 90 million over previous predictions.

Even prior to the pandemic, the momentum of poverty reduction was slowing down. By the end of 2022, nowcasting suggested that 8.4 per cent of the world’s population, or as many as 670 million people, could still be living in extreme poverty. This setback effectively erased approximately three years of progress in poverty alleviation.

If current patterns persist, an estimated 7% of the global population – around 575 million people – could still find themselves trapped in extreme poverty by 2030, with a significant concentration in sub-Saharan Africa.

A shocking revelation is the resurgence of hunger levels to those last observed in 2005. Equally concerning is the persistent increase in food prices across a larger number of countries compared to the period from 2015 to 2019. This dual challenge of poverty and food security poses a critical global concern.

Name Acronym Founded City HQ Country/Territory HQ Type I Type II

Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Missionaries of Scheut 1862 Rome Italy R

Congregation of the Mission

Vincentians 1625 Rome Italy R

Congregation of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ

Resurrectionists 1836 Rome Italy R

Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary

1800 Rome Italy R

Congregation of the Sacred-Heart of Jesus

1818 Cléon France R

Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sorrows

1839 Shreveport LA USA R

Conrad N Hilton Foundation

CNHF 1944 Agoura Hills CA USA G f

Conseil européen de l'industrie chimique

CEFIC 1972 Brussels Belgium D yt

Consejo de Fundaciones Americanas de Desarrollo

SOLIDARIOS 1972 Santo Domingo Dominican Rep D

Consejo de Institutos de Seguridad Social de Centroamérica y República Dominicana

CISSCAD 1992 Tegucigalpa Honduras D

Consensus for Sustainable People, Organisations and Communities

CSPOC 1983 Geneva Switzerland G

Consortium for International Pacific Education and Communication Experiments by Satellite

PEACESAT 1973 Honolulu HI USA F

Consortium for Street Children

CSC 1993 London UK G y

Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Association

CCRDA 1973 Addis Ababa Ethiopia G y

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

CGAP 1995 Washington DC USA E y

Consumers International

CI 1960 London UK B y

Containers of Hope

1994 Romford UK N

Controinformazione Terzo Mondo - Servizio Internazionale Volontario

CTM-SIV 1985 Lecce Italy G

Convention and Statute on Freedom of Transit

1921 T g

Convention Concerning Benefits in the Case of Employment Injury

1964 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Compulsory Widows' and Orphans' Insurance for Persons Employed in Agricultural Undertakings

1933 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Compulsory Widows' and Orphans' Insurance for Persons Employed in Industrial or Commercial Undertakings, in the Liberal Professions and for Outworkers and Domestic Servants

1933 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Equality of Treatment of Nationals and Non-nationals in Social Security

1962 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Invalidity, Old-age and Survivors' Benefits

1967 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Medical Care and Sickness Benefits

1969 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Minimum Standards of Social Security

1952 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Occupational Health Services

1985 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Organizations of Rural Workers and Their Role in Economic and Social Development

1975 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Seafarers' Pensions

1946 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Seafarers' Welfare at Sea and in Port

1987 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Social Security for Seafarers, 1946

1946 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning Social Security for Seafarers, 1987

1987 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning the Establishment of an International Scheme for the Maintenance of Rights under Invalidity, Old-age and Widows' and Orphans' Insurance

1936 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning the Establishment of an International System for the Maintenance of Rights in Social Security

1982 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning the Organization of the Employment Service

1948 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning the Protection and Integration of Indigenous and other Tribal and Semi-tribal Populations in Independent Countries

1957 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention Concerning the Reciprocal Grant of Assistance to Distressed Persons

1951 T g

Convention Concerning the Settlement of Various Classes of Pensions Which Were Not Regulated by the Rome Convention

1922 T g

Convention Ensuring Benefit or Allowances to the Involuntarily Unemployed

1934 Geneva Switzerland T g

Convention for the Establishment of a Postal and Telegraph Money Order Service

1912 T g

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

1950 Strasbourg France T g

Convention for the Regulation of the Unified Central American Consular Service

1912 T g

Convention of Independent Financial Advisors

CIFA 2001 Geneva Switzerland G f

Convention on Assistance in the Case of Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency

1986 T gy

Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident

1986 T gy

Convention on Information and Legal Cooperation Concerning "Information Society Services"

2001 Strasbourg France T g

Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime

1990 Strasbourg France T g

Convention on the Conservation of the Living Resources of the Southeast Atlantic

1969 Rome Italy T g

Convention on the Declaration of Death of Missing Persons, 1950

1950 T g

Convention on the Declaration of Death of Missing Persons, 1967

1967 T g

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