Holistic Approach:
Poverty is inextricably linked to a nexus of issues including decent work, health, education, environmental sustainability and social justices. Only in solving these together will any of them be solved on a sustainable basis.

Sustainability:
Solutions to ending poverty and hunger must be sustainable locally, socially, economically and environmentally.

Social Transformation:
People’s self-reliance is suppressed by conditions such as corruption, armed conflict, racism and subjugation of women. These are all rooted in an age-old and nearly universal patriarchal mindset that must be transformed as part of fundamental shift in the way society is organized.

Empowerment:
In the face of social suppression, focused and sustained action is required to awaken people to the possibility of self-reliance, to build confidence and organize communities to take charge of their own development.

Gender Equality:
An essential part of ending poverty and hunger must be to cause society-wide change towards gender equality. Women bear the major responsibility of meeting basic needs, yet are systematically denied the resources, freedom of action and voice in decision making to fulfill that responsibility.

Interconnectedness:
Our actions are shaped by and affect all other people and our natural environment. Poverty and hunger are not problems of one country or another, but are global issues. We must solve them not as “donor and recipients” but as global citizens working as co-equal partners in a common front to end poverty. In sum, world poverty and hunger can be ended, but not by merely doing more of the same. Poverty is primarily a human issue, and ending it requires principles that are consistent with our shared humanity.