Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

No Poverty


While global poverty rates have been cut by more than half since 2000, one in ten people in developing regions are still living with their families on less than the international poverty line of US$1.90 a day, and there are millions more who make little more than this daily amount. Significant progress has been made in many countries within Eastern and Southeastern Asia, but up to 42% of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to live below the poverty line.

Poverty is more than the lack of income and resources to ensure a sustainable livelihood. Its manifestations include hunger and malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion as well as the lack of participation in decision-making.

Economic growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote equality. Social protection systems need to be implemented to help alleviate the suffering of disaster-prone countries and provide support in the face of great economic risks. These systems will help strengthen responses by afflicted populations to unexpected economic losses during disasters and will eventually help to end extreme poverty in the most impoverished areas.

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

Non-Aligned Movement

NAM 1961 New York NY USA F g

Non-Aligned Movement Centre for South-South Technical Cooperation

NAM CSSTC 1995 Jakarta Indonesia E g

Non-Aligned Students, Youth and Civil Societies Organization

NASYO 1993 Port Louis Mauritius C

Nonprofit Academic Centers Council

NACC 1991 College Station TX USA F

Nordens välfärdscenter

NVC 2009 Stockholm Sweden D g

Nordic Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

NASPCAN 1998 Oslo Norway D v

Nordic Association of Schools of Social Work

NASSW 1965 Lund Sweden D

Nordic Convention on Social Assistance and Social Services

1994 T g

Nordic Convention on Social Security

1981 T g

Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions

NIIS 2017 Tallinn Estonia G bg

Nordic Network

Copenhagen Denmark F

Nordic Network for Communicating Animal Welfare

NordCAW Uppsala Sweden F

Nordic Social Pharmacy and Health Services Research Conference

NSPC S c

Nordic Tourism Collective

2019 Copenhagen Denmark F

Nordisk konvention om social trygghet

2012 T g

Nordiska Socionomförbunds Samarbetskommitté

NSSK 1970 Stockholm Sweden E

Nordred

1983 S g

North American and Caribbean Association of Schools of Social Work

NACASSW 1992 St Augustine Trinidad-Tobago E

North American Forestry Commission

NAFC 1959 Zapopan Mexico E g

North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission

NAMMCO 1992 Tromsø Norway E g

Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being

NDPHS 2003 Stockholm Sweden F gy

Northern Sparsely Populated Areas Network

NSPA Network F

Norwegian Church Aid

1947 Oslo Norway G

Nothelfergemeinschaft der Freunde

NdF 1945 Düren Germany G

Nuru International

Washington DC USA G

Oaks of Righteousness Movement International

ORMI Lomé Togo N

OAS Staff Association

1955 Washington DC USA E v

Oblates of St Francis de Sales

OSFS 1875 Rome Italy R j

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

OHCHR 1945 Geneva Switzerland E g

OIC Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation

COMSTECH 1981 Islamabad Pakistan E g

OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health

1924 Paris France B g

Oikocredit International

Oikocredit 1975 Amersfoort Netherlands F ey

Oikos - Cooperação e Desenvolvimento

Oikos 1988 Linda-a-Pastora Portugal G

Oikosnet Europe - Ecumenical Association of Academies and Laity Centres in Europe

EAALCE 1956 Sigtuna Sweden D

Olof Palme International Foundation

Barcelona Spain G f

ONE

2004 London UK F

One Day's Wages

ODW 2009 Seattle WA USA N

One Percent for Development Fund

1% for Development Fund 1976 Geneva Switzerland F f

One to World

1977 New York NY USA N

One World Trust

OWT 1951 London UK G f

ONEARTH Charity Foundation

Geneva Switzerland J f

OneWorld South Asia

OWSA 1999 Delhi India K

OostEuropa Zending

OEZ 1983 Rotterdam Netherlands N

Open Partial Agreement on the Prevention of, Protection against and Organization of Relief in Major Natural and Technological Disasters

EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement 1987 Strasbourg France F g

Open Society Foundations

OSF 1984 New York NY USA F f

Operation Rainbow

1978 Oakland CA USA G

Operation USA

1979 Los Angeles CA USA G

Opportunities Industrialization Centers International

OICI 1964 Washington DC USA F t

Opportunity International

1979 Chicago IL USA F j

ORA International

1981 Korbach Germany G

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