The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network will hold a special side-event to coincide with the High Level Meetings of the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly. The event will address the future of multidimensional poverty measurement in the context of the post-2015 development agenda.
Panelists working at the forefront of poverty measurement will make the case for a new multidimensional poverty index (MPI) 2015+ (also described as an MPI 2.0) to support the post-2015 development goals. The MPI2015+ would often be complemented by national MPIs, as in Mexico and Colombia, whose indicators reflect national priorities and contexts. The Network will echo calls for a ‘data revolution’ to undergird multidimensional poverty measures with better and more frequent data.
- Colombia: Bruce Mac Master, Director, Department of Social Prosperity
- Germany: Gudrun Kopp, Parliamentary Secretary of State
- Mexico: Gonzalo Hernandez, Director of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL)
- Philippines: Arsenio Balisacan, Minister of Socioeconomic Planning
- Morocco: Ahmed Lahlimi Alami, High Commissioner of Planning
- Nigeria: Shamsuddeen Usman, Minister of Planning
- Chile: Bruno Baranda, Minister of Social Development
- Jaime Saavedra, Acting Vice President, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank
- Erik Solheim, Chair, OECD Development Assistance Committee
- Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI, University of Oxford
Live and on-demand webcast coverage will be available on UN Web TV: http://webtv.un.org
Data shows that people who are multidimensionally poor are not necessarily income poor. Nor do the same policies reduce both poverties. By adopting a multidimensional poverty measure to support the post-2015 development goals, we can incorporate participatory insights of those living in poverty and ensure we eradicate both multidimensional and income poverty.
This event is organised by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, CONEVAL of Mexico, the Department for Social Prosperity of Colombia, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford (OPHI) and the new Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network, a global network of policymakers dedicated to advancing the multidimensional measurement of poverty and improving poverty reduction efforts.