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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

Evidence-based solutions to Poverty and Homelessness in Kansas

    Description
    Description
    The Center for Public Partnerships and Research at the University of Kansas is supporting work to eliminate poverty by generating responsive solutions that improve practice, inform policy, and advance knowledge. The Center supports state agencies to this end by facilitating partnerships and collaboration, research-based program design and implementation, and ongoing evaluation.
    Governed

    Multi-stakeholder partnerships

    Partners
    Center for Public Partnerships and Research, University of Kansas; state and regional partners in employment services, mental health service providers, substance abuse prevention and treatment organizations, educational institutions, and employers

    Goal 1

    End poverty in all its forms everywhere

    Goal 1

    1.1

    By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day

    1.1.1

    Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographical location (urban/rural)

    1.2

    By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions

    1.2.1

    Proportion of population living below the national poverty line, by sex and age

    1.2.2

    Proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions

    1.3

    Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable

    1.3.1

    Proportion of population covered by social protection floors/systems, by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work-injury victims and the poor and the vulnerable

    1.4

    By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance

    1.4.1

    Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services

    1.4.2

    Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land, (a) with legally recognized documentation, and (b) who perceive their rights to land as secure, by sex and by type of tenure

    1.5

    By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters

    1.5.1

    Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

    1.5.2

    Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)

    1.5.3

    Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

    1.5.4

    Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

    1.a

    Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions

    1.a.1

    Total official development assistance grants from all donors that focus on poverty reduction as a share of the recipient country's gross national income

    1.a.2

    Proportion of total government spending on essential services (education, health and social protection)

    1.b

    Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions

    1.b.1

    Pro-poor public social spending

    Name Description
    By January 2019, CCPR will assist the state employment and training agency in using a Collective Impact approach to develop, implement, and test a community-based, trauma-informed, employment and training program that will help 2,000 eligible food assistance recipients across 36 counties in Kansas get the training and individualized support needed to get on the path to sustainable, living wages.
    CPPR will assist the state and local agencies in providing individualized placement and supported employment services, and other surround services to Persons with Serious Mental illness (SMI) and or substance abuse to help keep these individuals housed and employed. The numbers of individuals served by both of these grants over the project period (October 2014 - September 2019) will be a minimum of 735 individuals with SMI.
    In-kind contribution
    Volunteer mentors
    Staff / Technical expertise
    Collective Impact facilitation and program development
    Staff / Technical expertise
    Data Collection and Evaluation
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    Timeline
    01 January 1970 (start date)
    01 January 1970 (date of completion)
    Entity
    Center for Public Partnerships and Research, University of Kansas
    SDGs
    Geographical coverage
    Kansas, USA
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    Contact Information

    Jacqueline Counts, Director