and International Labor Organization (ILO) For Indicator 1.2.1: WB For Indicator 1.2.2: National Statistics Offices, WB, UNICEF and UNDP For Indicator 1.3.1: ILO and WB For Indicator 1.4.1: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) For Indicator 1.4.2: WB and UN-HABITAT collectively. For all four Indicators under Target 1.5: United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) For Indicator 1.a.1: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) For Indicator 1.a.2: UNESCO-UIS For Indicator 1.b.1: UNICEF and Save the Children Monitoring The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development highlights the strong commitment of UN Member States and the international community to ending poverty. High-level progress reports for all the SDGs are published in the form of reports by the United Nations Secretary General with a recent UN's High Level Political Forum thematic review of SDG 1. Challenges Impact of COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 has caused the first increase in global poverty (up by 7 percent in just a few months), ending a 20-year streak of progress. Almost 37 million more people have fallen into extreme poverty in 2020, and because of COVID-19, they now live below the US$1.90 a day extreme poverty line. Another estimate put the figure at 71 million people who have been pushed into extreme poverty in 2020. The lock down has led to a collapse in economic activities hence causing reduced income leading to accelerated poverty. It is reported that young workers are two times more seemingly to be suffering from unemployment than their elders. There are projections that Sub-Saharan Africa will have the highest rate of increasing poverty because it already has more populations living close to the international poverty line. COVID-19 has further increased the challenges of achieving zero poverty goals as well as other SDG goals by 2030. Though many alternative measures are being deployed to get the relevant data, the available tools and methods have not been able to sufficiently address the continuously evolving climate. In order to achieve and sufficiently monitor the progress of SDGs, decision makers as well as stake holders need access to timely and reliable data. As countries got locked down in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many data collection activities that rely on direct interviews were suspended. The pandemic interrupted data collection. Decision-makers did not have access to reliable data, especially in the early months. Furthermore, COVID‑19 exposed the inadequacy in the global food chain. The pandemic is having resounding