BEIJING, June 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A high-level
delegation of the Government of China, representatives from Italy, several African countries and United
Nations officials, participated today in a workshop aimed at
boosting the sharing of knowledge and building partnerships to
achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on eradicating hunger and
extreme poverty by 2030.
The workshop, attended by over 90 international experts, and
including participants from academia and the private sector, was
jointly organized by the three Rome-based UN agencies - the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the
World Food Programme (WFP) – and the International Poverty
Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)
and the China Internet Information Centre (CIIC).
Discussions focused on how to best share knowledge and promote
partnerships that establish efficient mechanisms in support of
Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular,
SDG1, No Poverty and SDG2, Zero Hunger.
Representatives from China,
Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, FAO, IFAD and WFP presented and
discussed successful models, good practices and enabling policies
for poverty reduction and hunger eradication. The workshop also
served to strengthen the basis for the establishment of a regular
forum to convene development and government agencies, academia and
civil society to discuss and share experiences on poverty reduction
and hunger eradication.
Mr. Ou Qingping, Vice Minister of The State Council Leading
Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development introduced
China's "decisive progress in the
uphill anti-poverty campaign". "After five years' hard work, 68.53
million people have been lifted out of poverty. Poverty incidence
rate dropped from 10.2% to 3.1%. This time, China beat itself and accomplished the
greatest achievement in the history of China's poverty reduction," he said.
"This workshop, since its successful convening in 2017, has
received a large amount of positive responses from all
stakeholders. Now we are successfully convening the workshop again
in Rome. This indicates that a new
cooperative relationship for poverty reduction is coming into
shape," he added.
According to Dr. Benjamin Davis,
Strategic Programme Leader and Senior Economist at FAO, despite the
progress achieved in the past decades, about 783 million people
continue to live in extreme poverty ($1.90 a day). "Many countries have already developed
successful policies and programmes that are lifting people out of
poverty and hunger and that serve as examples for others," he said,
"knowledge sharing through South-South and Triangular Cooperation
is a very powerful tool to facilitate the exchange of lessons
learnt and best practices among countries of the global south."
Paul Winters, Associate
Vice-President of the Strategy and Knowledge Department of IFAD
reiterated the key focus of the partnership workshop in his opening
remarks. He said, "The partnership workshop provides a good
opportunity for all the participants to share the results generated
from the projects and efforts in poverty reduction and at the same
time reflect on these results. We should think of the policy
decisions and practices we have taken to achieve the results."
Stanlake Samkange, Senior Director of Strategic Coordination and
Support of WFP congratulated
China on the country's achievement
in poverty reduction over the four-decade journey of Reform and
Opening-up Policy. He noted, "China has lifted more than 700 million people
out of poverty over the forty years of Reform and Opening up. As a
champion in the global poverty alleviation cause, China's success in the poverty alleviation
serves as a good example for the rest of the world. WFP, IFAD and
FAO are willing to continue working with China under the South South Cooperation
framework to promote the realization of the Sustainable Development
Goals."
UN Rome-based Agencies and
China Committed to Fight Poverty and Hunger
FAO, IFAD, WFP, IPRCC and CIIC also issued a Joint
Communiqué on Strengthening Partnership for the Eradication of
Poverty and Hunger through Knowledge Sharing, Exchange and
Cooperation. The agencies agreed to develop and strengthen
their partnership by enhancing knowledge cooperation between
China and the Rome-based agencies on poverty reduction and
hunger eradication agendas and by reinforcing South-to-South and
Triangular Cooperation in poverty reduction.
Recognizing Global Efforts on Poverty Reduction
As part of the efforts to enhance knowledge sharing in poverty
reduction, the Global Solicitation and Challenge Prize on Best
Poverty Reduction Practices was presented at the
workshop. The prize was jointly launched by CIIC, IPRCC, the World
Bank, the Asian Development Bank, FAO, IFAD, and WFP at the 2018
China Poverty Reduction International Forum that took place on
May 23 in Beijing.
As the first global solicitation for poverty reduction case
studies, this initiative seeks to obtain 100 case studies that have
proven to be successful in fighting poverty.
Mr. Zheng Wenhua, special
assistant of editor-in-chief of CIIC, introduced that case studies,
papers, concept notes and other relevant knowledge products will be
showcased in the Global Poverty Reduction Online Knowledge Sharing
Database (http://case.iprcc.org.cn/) launched last year.
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