Sustainable Development Goal 1 and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria: The Implementation Challenges

Abstract

Eradicating poverty in all its form has been the burden of governments and non-governmental organizations in the world. However, in order to end poverty. However, in order to end poverty, the United Nations through its Sustainable Development Goals has been proactive in implementing programmes towards ending poverty by 2030. Despite the effort of the SGD and that of the Nigerian government, instead of poverty reducing, there seems to be a geometrical increase in the number of poor people in the country and this has been attributed to a lot of factors but not limited to corruption in public offices. The objective of this paper is to examine the challenges militating against the effective implementation of SDG goal 1 in Nigeria. The paper adopted secondary methods of data collection and hence relied on content analysis as its analytical tool. The work is anchored on Human Development Theory by Amartya Sen. It was found out that, the United Nations through the SDG has initiated programmes that would have helped reduce poverty but poverty persists because of corruption and other vices associated in the implementation process. Based on the findings, it is recommended that awareness and proper identification of the poor at the village level should be the approach adopted by the government to select beneficiaries of poverty reduction programmes in the country.