Eradicating
poverty is a task that the entire global community must meet with a sense of
urgency, Deputy UN Secretary-General, Ms Amina Mohammed, has said. Mohammed, in
her message to the three-day 2017 Integration Segment of the UN Economic and
Social Council (ECOSOC), said that eradicating poverty remained the greatest
global challenge. She called for a collective and comprehensive approach that
recognised the multidimensional nature of the issue and its interaction with
other aspects.
“Addressing poverty, inequality, climate change, food insecurity
and a sluggish and unpredictable global economy requires integrated responses
and engagement by all actors. “It is also an indispensable requirement for
sustainable development.” She highlighted the importance of broad partnerships
and building synergies across all dimensions of poverty eradication and
sustainable development. She added that different sectors of the economy at
national levels needed to address the complex interlinkages. The deputy UN
scribe noted that the first Sustainable Development Goal (SDG1) is to end
poverty in all its forms and everywhere. She added that such efforts also
provided an opportunity to gauge how national approaches and the recently
adopted SDG Indicator Framework could support each other in advancing
integrated implementation and reviewing progress. “We need options that will
enable policy makers at the global, regional and national levels to foster
coherent and integrated approaches to poverty eradication. “Expectations are very
high and now is the time. We have a collective responsibility to deliver
results at the country level,” she said. Also speaking at the opening, Nabeel
Munir, the Vice-President of ECOSOC, underscored the importance of integrated
policy frameworks, given the interconnected nature of sustainable development —
the economic, social and environmental dimensions. “The interlinkages between
the different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) we have defined to achieve
our common vision are explicit, unveiling potential synergies and trade-offs.
“This underlines the importance of integrated policy frameworks for the
realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. “It also underlines
the significance of this Integration Segment and the discussions that will take
place in the context of the 2017 session of the Economic and Social Council’s
work,” Munir said. The 2017 Integration Segment of ECOSOC brings together key
stakeholders to discuss and identify opportunities and challenges in developing
integrated approaches to tackle poverty in a sustained, inclusive and
sustainable manner. The session will also focus on Least Developed Countries.
The 2017 meeting will also consider best practices, lessons learned and
recommendations at the national, regional and international levels. This is
with a view to extracting policy recommendations to guide integrated policy
making for poverty eradication as an integral part of the 2030 Agenda.
Discussions and outcomes from the Integration Segment will feed into the High-level
Segment of ECOSOC as well as into the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable
Development.4 slump during teachers’ recruitment in A-Ibom
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fewer than four persons, including a pregnant woman, slumped yesterday during
the teachers’ recruitment exercise carried out by the Akwa Ibom State
Government. One person, who was identified to be a pregnant woman, collapsed at
Aka Community Secondary School Centre, while three others fainted at West Itam
Secondary School, Itu, centre, near Uyo metropolis. The incident happened,
while the applicants were struggling under the scotching sun to get their
employment recruitment forms from the officials. Vanguard gathered that the
personnel, who quickly attended to the woman, later brought out other pregnant
women and nursing mothers from the queue and urgently attended to them.
Vanguard recalls that, government had, last two weeks, announced the intention
to recruit 3,000 teachers into the primary school
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