DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ACADEMIA FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 1- NO POVERTY

The need to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 1- No Poverty requires a collective effort from all concerned. There is no one way to addressing a state of poverty among the people of a nation and in considering those available ways; the academia should come in because, it has been granted the opportunity of giving back to the larger society its wealth of experiences. The academia being vested with the responsibility of transforming negative attitudes in individuals obviously stands out to be one of the surest avenue through which people's attitude to life should take a better turn so as to promote a meaningful, responsible and economically buoyant society. It is based on this, the paper is anchored on identifying various ways the academia [in partnership with other organizations} can help the society achieve Sustainable Development Goal- 1 [no poverty} as initiated by the United Nations. It is the academia that produces the relevant stakeholders needed for nation building and in building a nation, the socio-economic and political lives of the citizens must be affected positively. Among the available findings is that which states that, 'poverty, is the worst kind of violence perpetrated on people.' Therefore, in order to curb or erase this description from the minds of people, there is eve1y need to create a suitable environment for the academia to further express its mandate to the people of a nation.