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Providing the poor with services

Synonyms:
Serving the poor
Broader:
Conserving
Providing services
Improving standards of living of the poor
Protecting the poor
Providing social security services
Narrower:
Focusing on the urban poor
Improving sanitation for the poor
Improving health care for the poor
Improving basic education for the poor
Improving conditions for the working poor
Providing safe drinking water for the poor
Improving services infrastructure in poor urban areas
Constrained by:
Abandoning the poor
Facilitates:
Reducing poverty
Providing for impoverished disabled persons
Enabling poor to achieve sustainable livelihood
Facilitated by:
Assisting those in poverty
Promoting community self-determination
Supporting community based programmes for the poor
Ensuring policies of international agencies address basic services for the poor
Problems:

Inadequate health services
Inadequate sanitation infrastructure
Insensitivity to the plight of disadvantaged people
Limited availability of investment capital for urban renewal
Poor living conditions
Socio-economic poverty
Underprovision of basic urban services
Values:
Poverty
Selfishness
References:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Development Strategies for the Rural Poor
Subjects:
Society → Disadvantaged
Social Activity → Services
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 1: No PovertyGOAL 10: Reduced Inequality

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The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

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