Post 2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future

need to focus on eradicating existing poverty
in ways that safeguard the interests of future
generations.
• Measurement: there is a need to develop further
the capacity to measure the ‘missing’ dimensions
of wellbeing, the ways in which individuals and
households experience multiple deprivations
and intra-household dynamics.
• Group-based inequalities should be one focus
of measuring and monitoring efforts, given that
those who experience persistent poverty share
some common characteristics – e.g. age, caste,
ethnicity, caste, disability and gender – which
often overlap in ways that make it harder to
move out of poverty.
• Poor people’s experiences of deprivation can
help to prioritise dimensions of wellbeing
and highlight aspects such as the importance
of relationships and of being treated with
dignity. these principles should guide future
cooperation. understanding people’s and social
groups’ perceptions of poverty can also give
insights into how they will judge the success or
failure of development policies.
any successor to the mDGs will have limitations.
there is a need to be realistic about what can and
cannot be measured, and to acknowledge the
limitations of poverty numbers. the process of
developing a new global development framework
should seek to establish a new international vision
regarding what are desirable objectives, and to
outline some broad parameters for achieving and
measuring progress.
poSt-2015: Global actIon For an IncluSIvE anD SuStaInablE FuturE
As countries
develop relative
poverty becomes
a more prominent
concern.
Inequality should
therefore be an
explicit focus of
a post-2015
framework.
Any successor to
the MDGs will
have limitations.
There is a need to
be realistic about
what can and
cannot be
measured, and
to acknowledge
the limitations of
poverty numbers.
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