Despite there not being a specific goal for NTDs, it's clear that the goals proposed can support efforts to control NTDs – whether through health, education or broader poverty reduction.
They must therefore form part of a broader poverty reduction agenda.
Since Round 1, the guidelines have strongly encouraged links to existing national efforts to develop sustainable health systems and broader poverty reduction strategies.
CCTs have their drawbacks but at least where governments are concerned, and if you take a broad definition of poverty reduction to include health and education they usually do a better job.The biggest conditional transfers, Bolsa Família and Mexico's Oportunidades, are credited with cutting poverty and boosting literacy in Latin America's largest countries.
Ultimately, the government believes its focus on sustainability, along with programs like educating farmers, contribute to the broader goal of poverty reduction.
Other than academic purposes, it is believed that the findings of this study generated quantitative scientific information for policy-makers and planners that guides them towards better and more informed decision-making for PFM establishment and implementation that is geared towards communal forest management and, thereby, to achieving the broader goal of poverty reduction in Ethiopia.
This focus was later broadened to poverty reduction, broad-based economic growth, inclusive social development and good governance.
They propose that adequate wages help retain human resources for health, especially in rural areas and among marginal communities, and may contribute to broader human development and poverty reduction strategies.
They cover a broad range of issues from poverty reduction to nutrition, gender equality and environmental protection.
These include working with governments on developing broad national planning frameworks like Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and Sector-wide Approaches to Programming(SWAPs), which help countries and donors identify needs and form a results-based plan for change.
