Sustainable Development Goal 1 is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere, often abbreviated as SDG 1: No Poverty. The aim of this goal is to reduce the number of people worldwide living in extreme poverty, or under $1.90USD per day. Poverty is a significant development challenge for people and communities with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) because people with diverse SOGIESC are more likely to experience cyclical poverty as a result of discrimination.
SDG 1 is a diverse SOGIESC issue because not only are people with diverse SOGIESC more likely to be impoverished, but development programming frequently excludes people with diverse SOGIESC. For instance, women’s economic empowerment programs are designed to empower cisgender, heterosexual women; they do not take trans women or lesbian, bi, queer or non-binary (LBQ+) women into account.
The resources available under SDG 1 cover a wide range of issues including: the economic costs of exclusion of people with diverse SOGIESC; the specific poverty and livelihoods challenges people with diverse SOGIESC face; the intersections between poverty and diverse SOGIESC; and emerging practice around diverse SOGIESC-inclusive development programming.
These resources have been compiled to enable development practitioners to develop and implement diverse SOGIESC-inclusive poverty reduction programming, and to empower practitioners with the knowledge they need to better meet the targets of SDG 1.
