An empowerment agenda
for rural livelihoods
IFAD POST-2015 POLICY BRIEF 2
©IFAD/Cristóbal Corral
1 HLP (2013). A new global
partnership: Eradicate poverty and
transform economies through
sustainable development. The
report of the High-Level Panel of
Eminent...
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An empowerment agenda
for rural livelihoods
IFAD POST-2015 POLICY BRIEF 2
©IFAD/Cristóbal Corral
1 HLP (2013). A new global
partnership: Eradicate poverty and
transform economies through
sustainable development. The
report of the High-Level Panel of
Eminent Persons on the Post-2015
Development Agenda.
www.post2015hlp.org/the-report/
INTRODUCTION
The May 2013 Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development
Agenda (HLP)1
acknowledges that poverty has various dimensions: insufficient income and
productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods; hunger and malnutrition; ill health;
limited or no access to education and other basic services; high morbidity and mortality from
illness; inadequate housing; insecurity; and discrimination and exclusion. The report adds that
poverty is often characterized by lack of participation in decision-making and in civil, social
and cultural life. It recommends that the post-2015 agenda tackle all of these aspects of pov
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