Attacking poverty and promoting social integration are not the job of any one country or organization acting alone. They form the inescapable common agenda for today’s world.
We must look at this challenge through the eyes of people and respond to their hopes and needs. Women and men want a global system that enables people themselves to work out of poverty in freedom and dignity. They want a global system that ignites the power of people to organize and create livelihoods that meet the needs of all families without compromising the prospects of future generations. They want a global system that regains its balance through solidarity. This new global system is possible and feasible – the means are there.
Yes, it takes resources. But resources are not just money. They also include the conviction to act, the belief that a better society is possible, the sense of solidarity, the decision not to be morally indifferent to the plight of others. The biggest resource all of us have is within ourselves. It is the values we hold dear.
And so we know people must be the principal drivers. People as creators of life and communities. People as caregivers and receivers of care.
People as workers, consumers, and entrepreneurs. People as savers, investors, producers and employers. People as inventors and generators of knowledge. People as citizens and organizers.
This Report develops an agenda for the community of work represented by the ILO’s constituents to mobilize its considerable resources of energy and creativity and put them to the service of the concerted global drive to eradicate poverty.
This strategy is about more than increasing incomes. It is about rights, dignity and a voice. It is about helping women and men join the economic mainstream and build assets and a better life. It is about creating wealth and markets and transforming today’s marginalized people into tomorrow’s consumers.
It is about building an enabling environment for investment and growth. It is about recognizing that we cannot afford to waste a single person and everyone deserves a decent standard of living and the chance to contribute to the common good. Ultimately, it is about the economic, social and political empowerment of people.
Wiping out poverty represents the biggest challenge to multilateralism today. As the multilateral system continues to be put to the test on classical security issues, we simply cannot fail on issues of human security. This is not a bureaucratic challenge. Nor is it a call for cooperation merely on the margins.
This is about making the right political choices to improve people’s lives. If there is one single way to reaffirm legitimacy of the multilateral system, it is to come together to meet this challenge.
Cynics may thrive on deriding such efforts as unrealistic. “Poverty will always be with us”, they tell us piously. Yet we know that in their time, cynics said the same thing about slavery, apartheid, the Berlin Wall, denial of women’s right to vote, and so many other systems of social inequity.
Together, we will prove them wrong once again. Another world is possible.
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