Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) within the SDGs -UN General Assembly High-level side event

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Special invitation to attend a High-Level Side Event at the UN General Assembly
Anchoring a Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) within the SDGs

You may be interested, either to attend in person or to watch
online.

Date: 27 September 2015, 1:15-2:45pm

Venue: Conference Room 3, Secretariat Building, United Nations Headquarters, New York

*Also available to watch via livestream http://www.ophi.org.uk/anchoring-a-globalmpi/

At this critical juncture in the process of finalising how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be measured, the event will highlight the experience of countries with multidimensional poverty measurement at the national level, and the importance of embedding such a measure within the new framework. Specifically, it will stress how a global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), as a core (tier one) indicator within the SDGs, alongside National MPIs as these come onstream, can energise a coordinated, effective and multi-sectoral attack on poverty in all its dimensions.

Distinguished speakers at the event will include:

·         H.E. Luis Guillermo Solís, President of Costa Rica

·         H.E. Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister of Bhutan

·         H.E. Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia

·         H.E. Juan Orlando Hernández, President of Honduras

·         H.E. Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador (tbc)

·         H.E. Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs

The event is organised by the Republic of Costa Rica and nearly 40 governments represented by the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN), a South-South network of senior government officials that is championing the use of multidimensional poverty measures alongside traditional income measures at both the national and global levels. These governments include China, Colombia, Mozambique, Mexico, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Vietnam among many others. The MPPN Secretariat is the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.

At its annual meeting in Cartagena in June 2015, the diverse participants within the MPPN endorsed the use of the global MPI for the SDGs and the use of national, regional and sub-national MPIs as powerful policy tools for enhanced anti-poverty programming.

If you would like to attend the event, please RSVP by email to mppn@ophi.org.uk by Thursday 24 September.  Thank you to those of you who have already confirmed your attendance.

Please do circulate details of this event to others you think may be interested, either to attend in person or to watch online. http://www.ophi.org.uk/anchoring-a-globalmpi/