Sites of Interest

Canada

• Canadian Poverty Reduction Policies and Programs (Canadian Council on Social Development)
• Manitoba - All Aboard: Manitoba's Poverty Reduction Strategy
• New Brunswick - Overcoming Poverty Together
• Newfoundland and Labrador - Poverty Reduction Initiative
• Northwest Territories - Reducing Poverty in the NWT: Discussion and Engagement with Northerners
• Nova Scotia - Poverty Reduction Strategy
• Nunavut - Roundtable for Poverty Reduction
• Ontario - Breaking the Cycle: Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy
• Quebec - Government Action Plan for Solidarity and Social Inclusion 2010-2015
• Yukon - Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Strategy

International

• 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion

  The European Union has joined forces with its Member States to make 2010 the European Year For Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. The key objectives are to raise public awareness about these issues and renew the political commitment of the EU and its Member States to combat poverty and social exclusion.

• EU National Strategy Reports on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2008-2010

  Since 2000, the European Union has provided, through the open method of coordination, a framework for national strategy development as well as for policy coordination between EU countries on issues relating to poverty and social exclusion. This coordinated action at European level is reflected in national action plans.

France

• Engagement national contre la pauvreté (French only)

Ireland

• Combat Poverty Agency - Working for a poverty-free Ireland
• Office for Social Inclusion

United Kingdom

• Child Poverty
• Opportunity for All: Annual report on poverty and social exclusion

Canada

• Canadian Heritage - Human Rights Program

International

• Implementation of the ICESCR: Canada

  Note that the English version of the reports are available by clicking on the letter E below the report titles.

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)

  There are a number of international agreements related to poverty, a key one being the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

Canada

• Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
• Statistics Canada: Low Income Lines, 2010-2011

  In order to provide a holographic or complete picture of low income, Statistics Canada is implementing an approach that uses three complementary low income lines: the Low Income Cut-offs (LICOs), the Low Income Measures (LIMs) and the Market Basket Measure (MBM).

Canada

• 25 in 5: Network for Poverty Reduction
• Caledon Institute of Social Policy
• Campaign 2000
• Canada Without Poverty
• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
• Canadian Council on Social Development
• Canadian Policy Research Network
• Canadian Social Research Links
• Collective for a Poverty-Free Quebec
• Food Banks Canada
• Make Poverty History