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Presentations from the MPPN Meeting 2017

Publicado el: October 18th, 2017 Por MPPN

Opening Remarks

Dr Tan Weiping, Deputy Director General, IPRCC
– Piero Conforti, Senior Statistician, FAO
– Gonzalo Hernandez Licona, Executive Secretary, CONEVAL, Mexico
– Nicholas Rosellini, UN Resident Coordinator and the UNDP representative in China

 

Introduction

Sabina Alkire, Director, OPHI

 

Keynote Speakers

– Wang Pingping, National Bureau of Statistics
– Gonzalo Hernandez Licona, Executive Secretary, CONEVAL, Mexico
– Pali Lehohla, Statistician General, Statistics South Africa

 

In Depth I: Designing an MPI: a Technical, Political, Communications Exercise

President Ernesto Peña Nieto, Mexico (by video)
Heidi Berner, Vice Minister, Ministry of Social Development, Chile
– Aman Ullah, Chief Economist, Planning and Development Department, Province of Punjab, Pakistan
Nemesio Roys, Director, Department of Social Prosperity, Colombia (by video)
Adriana Conconi, Technical Outreach Director, OPHI

 

In Depth II: Coordination and Budget Allocation

Edgar Ramirez Medina, General Director of Analysis and Prospective, SEDESOL, Mexico
Michelle Muschett, Vice Minister, Ministry of Social Development, Panama
President Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia (by video)
Vice President Ana Helena Chacon, Costa Rica (by video)

 

In Depth III: New Openings and Opportunities in the Era of the SDGs

Marin Evans, Child Poverty Specialist, UNICEF
Elina Scheja, Lead Economist, Sida
Ayodele Odusola, Chief of Strategy and Analysis, UNDP
Pascual Gerstenfeld, Director of Statistics Division, ECLAC

 

Sharing National Experiences in Building an MPI

– Muhamad B. Idris, Director of the Income Distribution Section of the Economic Planning Unit, Malaysia
– James Muwonge, Director of Socioeconomic Surveys, Uganda Bureau of Statistics
Marie-Josee Bonne, Principal Secretary, Family Affairs, Seychelles
– Anna Mwasha, Director, Poverty Eradication Department, Tanzania

 

Other Sessions

– OPHI and IPRCC China’s Accurate Poverty Targeting Intervention
– Piero Conforti, Senior Statistician, FAO
– Adriana Conconi, Technical Outreach Director, OPHI Handbook on Creating National MPIs
Felipe Roa Clavijo, Policy and Communications Assistant, OPHI Dimensions and Policy Briefings
– Felipe Roa-Clavijo, Policy and Communications Assistant, OPHI Communicating the MPI: Examples and Insights
– Jiao Meng, International Cooperation Director, China Internet Information Centre, South South Network of IPRCC China’s Model of Knowledge Sharing
– Bathabile Dlamini, Minister of Social Development, South Africa South Africa 2018: MPPN Meetings – Motivation, Format, and Context

 

More information:

Final Communiqué
Agenda
Concept Note

2017 Annual MPPN Meeting in China

Publicado el: September 26th, 2017 Por MPPN

On the first day of the meeting, Ministers of the MPPN joined other speakers and the Vice Premier of China in substantive presentations on strategies to end poverty in its many dimensions as part of the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum.

On the 10th and 11th, Ministers from Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa, Vice Ministers or similar from Chile, Indonesia, Panama, and the Seychelles, Heads of Statistics or similar agencies from Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda, Deputy Heads of Statistics or similar from Cameroon, Malaysia, plus agencies: ESCWA, SESRIC, SIDA, UNDP, FAO and UNICEF, a Provincial level representative from Pakistan and delegations from Seychelles and South Africa shared their experiences on multidimensional poverty measures.

The meeting objective was to activate an intensive two-way South-South exchange by which each participant can both share their knowledge and gain advice that is pertinent to their work, so that each person leaves more equipped and motivated to act within their professional capacity to fight multidimensional poverty.

The MPPN is a South-South initiative that supports policymakers to develop more effective poverty eradication efforts, grounded in multidimensional poverty measures. The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) is the Secretariat of the MPPN.

 

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2017 UNGA | High-Level Side Event: Using the Multidimensional Poverty Index to Track Progress in the SDGs

Publicado el: September 20th, 2017 Por MPPN

The video of the event is available here:

President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos:

President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto:

 

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Important Information

Date: 19 September 2017
Time: 11am – 1pm (Local time)
Venue: Conference Room 2, United Nations Building
Hashtag: #UNGA #MPI4SDGs
UNGA Website: http://www.un.org/en/ga/
Concept Note
Agenda
Press Release
Video
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2017 UNSC | MPPN Side Event at United Nations Statistical Commission 48th Session

Publicado el: March 7th, 2017 Por MPPN

Attila Hancioglu, Global MICS Coordinator, UNICEF

“Recently, of course, as a result of all our efforts, we were pleased to see that multidimensional poverty has taken its deserved place in the SDG framework.” Hancioglu provided the welcome news that due to the mainstreaming of MPI it would be included as a standard part of MICS survey reports together with child poverty indicators.

“Our work is going to intensify in general. We are very pleased to have seen specifically on MPI a number of child-specific MPIs in a number of countries, including Malaysia, Vietnam, El Salvador, and Rwanda. And including the report, which was released last year, for Bhutan on a child-specific MPI”.

 

Xavier Mancero – Senior Statistician, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Mancero presented a new project they have jointly with UNESCWA and other UN agencies and the Secretariat, in which one component will address multidimensional poverty and proposing new questions to address common challenges in household data sources for MPIs. He observed “what we see is we already have the support to build a National MPI, but then we are very limited usually by the data we have in the household surveys. So, we have indicators of access and not quality… Or there are dimensions of poverty that are not considered in these surveys.” The fundamental question they face is this: “Now that we have the multidimensional poverty index, how do we measure it better? How do we measure the dimensions that are lacking or come closer to what we want to know about the poor population?”

 

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About National and Global MPIs:

Governments such as Mexico, Colombia, Bhutan, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Honduras, Pakistan and Armenia use official multidimensional poverty indices (MPIs) as an official statistic of poverty. Each national MPI is tailor-made to the national context. For example, its design may reflect the constitution, or national development plan, or a participatory exploration of what poverty means. The national MPI may be computed using the same survey as income poverty metrics, or a different survey. It may be updated annually or every 2 years. Each national MPI is an official poverty statistic, but an effort is made so that it is used to inform and energise policy.

Yet not all governments have national MPIs. Even when they do, national MPIs cannot be compared. So there is a value-added to having a comparable global MPI across developing countries and/or universally, with extensive and disaggregated information on the composition of poverty for different groups. A global MPI for developing countries has been estimated by OPHI and the UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, and disaggregated for 1,300 subnational regions, as well as by variables like age and rural-urban areas. The global MPI might be particularly useful for SDG target 1.2 of halving multidimensional poverty, and potentially by countries without tailor-made National MPIs at the present time.

 

About the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN):

This event was co-hosted by the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN), a group of senior representatives from over 50 governments and international institutions, and its Secretariat, OPHI.

The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network was launched in June 2013 at a distinguished event at the University of Oxford, at which President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Professor Amartya Sen gave keynote addresses. The network was established in response to demand for information on implementing multidimensional measures, and for technical and institutional support. The Network Steering Committee includes Ministers and senior government officials from China, South Africa, Mexico, and Colombia as well as from OPHI.

Important Info:

UN Statistical Commission side event 2017

High Level Panel Endorses Multidimensional Approach to Poverty at the Global Partnership Meeting

Publicado el: December 2nd, 2016 Por MPPN

On 1 December, 2016, OPHI Co-Founder John Hammock moderated a session entitled “Multidimensional Poverty: Experiences from the South” that was organized by the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) as part of the Second High Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation in Nairobi, Kenya.

The session featured a discussion on the importance of a multidimensional approach for both measuring poverty and for effective development cooperation in order to “ensure no one is left behind,” in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals. The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN), a network of 53 countries, was presented by Hammock as the type of platform that models a multidimensional approach.

Panelists included:

  • Thomas Silberhorn, Parliamentary State Secretary of Germany, who noted Germany’s support for multidimensional poverty, the MPPN, and the need to focus now on showing that the poor are graduating out of poverty.
  • Gina Casar, Executive Director of AMEXCID, who emphasized Mexico as the first country to adopt a multidimensional measure of poverty and a leader of the movement to use a multidimensional framework for poverty measurement and development cooperation
  • Charlotte Petri-Gornitzka, Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, who stressed this multidimensional lens needs to also focus on agency and voice as well as on the role of the private sector
  • Luis Tejada Chacón, Director of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), who explained Spain’s commitment to Triangular Cooperation–involving Northern and Southern donors in its programs
  • Jos Verbeek, Manager and Special Representative to the UN and WTO for the World Bank, who commented on the World Bank’s natural progression to now incorporating multidimensional poverty alongside its monetary poverty measures
  • Malik Muhammad Uzair Khan, a Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan, who stated that Pakistan had launched its National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), with OPHI and UNDP assistance, and stressed the importance of local ownership of this new measure that is already being used for public policy

Hammock highlighted several points:

  • Poor people were graduating out of MPI poverty in early country adopters of the MPI.
  • Costa Rica provides a case study of effective development since the Government is using the MPI as a framework for its anti-poverty national budget. The private sector is involved in the whole MPI process.
  • The MPI complements income poverty and provides a specific focus for effective development cooperation.

The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network promotes the national and global MPI and encourages knowledge sharing across countries incorporating multidimensional measures into effective policy. OPHI hosts the Secretariat of the MPPN.

 

Relevant information:

Read Global Partnership Nairobi Outcome Document

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