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1.20 Building together: Working Out of Poverty

Written by: International Labour Organization

Article Overview: 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.

1.20 Building together: Working Out of Poverty

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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