Are countries committed to ending child poverty by 2030?

Ending poverty in all its forms for everyone, including for children – is at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in 2015 by the Member States of the United Nations. Through SDG 1, the 2030 Agenda provides a clear framework or action: Countries must eradicate extreme poverty for all people – including children - by 2030 as internationally defined (PPP $1.90) and reduce at least by half the proportion of children living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions. To monitor and assess national progress on the SDGs, each year a select number of countries present their Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF). This Coalition brief is the fourth annual analysis of the VNRs from a child poverty perspective, looking at how countries address and discuss their efforts to end child poverty, through both measurement and policies. This analysis builds upon the 2021 briefing paper developed by the Coalition, which reviewed VNRs from 2017 to 2021. This year’s analysis reviews the 2022 VNRs and provides reflections on the trends since 2017.