Doha Programme of Action - Overview

KFA1: Investing in People & Eradicating Poverty

Investing in people in least developed countries: eradicating poverty and building capacity to leave no one behind

Universal social protection systems   Achieving universal access to quality education, s   Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of a   Population and health   Investing in young people   Water, sanitation and hygiene   Urbanization and shelter   Migration and mobility   Good and effective governance at all levels   Building and sustaining peace for sustainable deve  
1: Investing in people in least developed countries: eradicating poverty and building capacity to leave no one behind

  • Target 1.01.01: Achieve a sustainable increase in coverage of nationally appropriate comprehensive and universal social protection systems and measures, including floors, for all in the least developed countries.

    • Indicator 1.01.01.01: Number and percentage of LDCs reporting expanded coverage of their social protection systems

  • Target 1.01.02: End hunger and malnutrition and ensure access by all people in least developed countries, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe and healthy diets through sustainable year-round food systems.

    • Indicator 1.01.02.01: Number and percentage of LDCs that have integrated food systems strategies into national agricultural and food security policies

    • Indicator 1.01.02.02: SG Report on food stockholding presented to the General Assembly in 2024

  • Target 1.01.03: Provide food and emergency assistance everywhere to those in need.

  • Target 1.02.01: Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable, inclusive and quality primary and secondary education, leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes and inclusive, sustainable economic growth.

  • Target 1.02.02: By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable, inclusive and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.

  • Target 1.02.03: Achieve universal access to inclusive and quality education at all levels, eliminate the gender gap in enrolment and completion, and increase the quality of education for all in least developed countries.

  • Target 1.02.04: Substantially expand globally the number of places and scholarships for students and trainees from least developed countries, in particular in the fields of science, education technology, business management and economics, and encourage the full uptake of scholarships available to students of least developed countries.

  • Target 1.02.05: Substantially increase access to the Internet, electricity, school meals that support healthy diets, water and other vital school health services, and adequate hygiene and sanitation facilities in all primary, secondary and tertiary schools in least developed countries by 2030.

    • Indicator 1.02.05.01: Percentage of LDCs with schools that have increased access to (a) electricity (b) internet (c) WASH facilities (d) school health and nutrition programmes

  • Target 1.02.06: Undertake feasibility studies to explore the possibility of establishing an online university or other equivalent platforms for least developed countries.

    • Indicator 1.02.06.01: SG Report on establishing an Online University presented to the General Assembly in 2024

  • Target 1.02.07: Expand professional training and quality apprenticeships and promote other active labour market policies to facilitate a smooth school-to-work transition for young people, especially young women.

  • Target 1.02.08: Urge the international community to join forces to have children return to school in the wake of COVID-19 and ensure 12 years of safe and quality education for all children, specifically girls.

  • Target 1.03.01: Achieve women’s full, equal and meaningful participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.

  • Target 1.03.02: Support women’s equal opportunities in education, training, business, entrepreneurship and decent jobs.

    • Indicator 1.03.02.01: Percentage of LDCs that have policies or legislation for equal opportunities for women in business/private sector

    • Indicator 1.03.02.02: Representation of women in chambers of commerce and private sector federations (percentage)

  • Target 1.03.03: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.

  • Target 1.03.04: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.

  • Target 1.03.05: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

  • Target 1.03.06: Support the transition from informal to formal work in all sectors.

  • Target 1.03.07: Achieve the full, equal and meaningful participation of women and girls online

  • Target 1.03.08: Achieve equitable access to social protection for women and girls.

  • Target 1.04.01: Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and nutrition, and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines, diagnostics, vaccines and other health technologies for all.

    • Indicator 1.04.01.01: Percentage of LDCs that increased health share of national budget

  • Target 1.04.02: Reduce maternal deaths and eliminate preventable maternal, infant and child deaths and improve access to affordable quality health-care services.

  • Target 1.04.03: Ensure birth registration to all newborns in least developed countries and provide a national legal identity to them.

  • Target 1.05.01: Ensure, by 2030, that all young people achieve literacy and numeracy.

  • Target 1.05.02: Ensure access to lifelong digital learning opportunities for skills development.

    • Indicator 1.05.02.01: Percentage of LDCs that have included digital technology in teaching and learning curricula

  • Target 1.05.03: Increase youth participation and inclusion in decision-making processes.

  • Target 1.05.04: Increase access to safe and healthy working conditions, decent work opportunities, knowledge and skills for all young people in the least developed countries.

  • Target 1.05.05: Promote entrepreneurial training to young people, including through financial and technical assistance

    • Indicator 1.05.05.01: Percentage of young people not employed or in education participating in entrepreneurship capacity building (disaggregated by sex and LDC)

    • Indicator 1.05.05.02: Number of LDCs assisted to develop national roadmaps to implement Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection

  • Target 1.06.01: Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water and access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all in least developed countries by 2030.

  • Target 1.07.01: By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services.

  • Target 1.07.02: By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport system for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport.

  • Target 1.08.01: Facilitate the orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.

  • Target 1.08.02: Enhance the positive contribution of migrants to inclusive growth and sustainable development.

  • Target 1.08.03: Invest in the skills development of migrants and facilitate mutual recognition of skills, qualification and competences.

  • Target 1.08.04: Ensure inclusive access to basic social (education, nutrition, health care) and protection services, in particular for migrants in vulnerable situations, in line with national policies and legislation and international obligations.

  • Target 1.09.01: Strengthen good governance and the rule of law at all levels.

  • Target 1.09.02: Provide continued support for the strengthened and effective voice and participation of least developed countries in relevant international forums.

  • Target 1.09.03: Step up the fight against corruption and illicit financial flows.

  • Target 1.09.04: Build up efficient public administration institutions

    • Indicator 1.09.04.01: Number of new or enhanced e-government services introduced in LDC public institutions by type/category of e-government services

    • Indicator 1.09.04.02: Average e-government index for LDCs

  • Target 1.09.05: Strengthen justice institutions and the rule of law.

  • Target 1.10.01: Build durable peace and ensure stability, security and sustainable, inclusive and resilient development in least developed countries.

  • Target 1.10.02: Foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies that are free from fear and violence.

  • Target 1.10.03: Strengthen multilateral dialogue and cooperation to prevent conflicts and ensure peaceful solutions to existing conflicts.

  • Target 1.10.04: Promote increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and in mechanisms for the prevention, management and resolution of conflict.

    • Indicator 1.10.04.01: Percentage of LDCs that have mainstreamed women in national and sub-national peace and conflict prevention architecture

    • Indicator 1.10.04.02: Percentage of women in peace negotiations in LDCs where such negotiations have taken place

Goals

  • Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
    Strong  
  • Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
    Strong  
  • Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
    Strong  
  • Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
    Strong  
  • Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
    Strong  
  • Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
    Strong  
  • Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
    Weak  
  • Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
    Weak  
  • Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
    Weak  
  • Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development .
    Weak  

Targets

  • Target 1.1: By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day.
    Weak   Economic  
  • Target 1.2: By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions.
    Weak   Economic  
  • Target 1.3: Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Economic  
  • Target 1.5: By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters.
    Weak   Economic   Environmental   Social  
  • Target 1.b: Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions.
    Weak   Economic  
  • Target 2.1: By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round.
    Strong   Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 2.2: By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons.
    Strong   Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 3.1: By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 3.2: By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under 5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births.
    Strong   Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 3.3: By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases.
    Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.
    Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 3.5: Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol.
    Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 3.7: By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes.
    Strong   Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 3.8: Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
    Strong   Economic  
  • Target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 4.2: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 4.3: By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 4.4: By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
    Strong   Strong   Strong   Strong   Weak   Weak   Economic  
  • Target 4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations.
    Strong   Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 4.6: By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy.
    Strong   Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 4.a: Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 4.b: By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 4.c: By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States.
    Weak   Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 5.3: Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 5.4: Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate.
    Weak   Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life.
    Strong   Strong   Economic   Environmental  
  • Target 5.6: Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 5.a: Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws.
    Strong   Economic  
  • Target 5.b: Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women.
    Strong   Economic  
  • Target 5.c: Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.
    Strong   Governmental  
  • Target 6.1: By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.
    Strong   Economic  
  • Target 6.2: By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 6.3: By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.
    Strong   Social  
  • Target 6.4: By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity.
    Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 6.5: By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate.
    Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 6.6: By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes.
    Weak   Social  
  • Target 6.a: By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies.
    Strong  
  • Target 6.b: Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management.
    Strong   Economic   Environmental   Governmental  
  • Target 8.6: By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training.
    Strong  
  • Target 8.b: By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization.
    Weak   Environmental   International  
  • Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
    Weak   Environmental  
  • Target 10.4: Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 10.7: Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies.
    Strong   Governmental  
  • Target 11.1: By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums.
    Strong  
  • Target 11.2: By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons.
    Strong   Environmental  
  • Target 16.1: Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere.
    Strong   Strong   Governmental  
  • Target 16.2: End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.
    Weak   Weak  
  • Target 16.3: Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all.
    Strong   Strong   Governmental  
  • Target 16.4: By 2030, significantly reduce illicit financial and arms flows, strengthen the recovery and return of stolen assets and combat all forms of organized crime.
    Strong   International  
  • Target 16.5: Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms.
    Strong   Governmental  
  • Target 16.6: Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.
    Weak   Governmental  
  • Target 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.
    Weak   Governmental  
  • Target 16.8: Broaden and strengthen the participation of developing countries in the institutions of global governance.
    Strong   International  
  • Target 16.9: By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.
    Strong   Governmental  
  • Target 16.a: Strengthen relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation, for building capacity at all levels, in particular in developing countries, to prevent violence and combat terrorism and crime.
    Strong   Governmental  

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