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5th MPPN Annual Meeting in Beijing, China 2017

Publicado el: October 26th, 2017 Por MPPN

In this warm and very interactive Meeting, members shared their experiences developing, implementing, and utilizing multidimensional poverty measures to help reduce the many overlapping deprivations experienced by the poor. This year, particular emphasis was given to how MPIs were being used to prioritize and track progress in countries’ SDG agendas and how they were working as part of coordinated planning processes.

At the opening on 9 October, participants attended China’s prestigious Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum. The Vice Premier of China spoke, as did other Chinese and foreign leaders, including MPPN’s own Steering Committee leader Gonzalo Hernandez Licona (Mexico). In the afternoon, participants had an intensive briefing on China’s Precise Poverty Targeting Intervention, in which, in 2014, 70 million Chinese were identified as poor using China’s multidimensional framework that covers monetary, health, education, housing and livelihood deprivations. The realistic and highly visible political target is to eradicate such poverty by 2020.  Wang Pingping from the National Bureau of Statistics of China gave a keynote lecture tracing progress using monetary and multidimensional poverty measures. IPRCC and OPHI presented based on documents and fieldwork in two provinces. Nicholas Rosellini, the UN Resident Coordinator and the UNDP representative in China, gave a second keynote linking China’s poverty reduction activities to the SDGs.

On 10 October, the formal opening session included an address by Dr Tan of IPRCC, MPPN Steering Committee and FAO.  Sabina Alkire provided an overview of the MPPN’s activities since the last Annual Meeting, including the magazine Dimensions and the new policy briefing series. The first in-depth session looked at the challenges and opportunities involved in designing a National MPI in Chile, Pakistan, Mexico, and Colombia. Gonzalo Hernandez Licona of CONEVAL in Mexico gave a keynote explaining how Mexico’s national measure was developed and used for policy purposes. OPHI’s Adriana Conconi presented the draft handbook on creating National MPIs for feedback from member countries. Representatives from Malaysia, Uganda, Tanzania, and the Seychelles shared their ongoing work building MPIs. Next, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, and Costa Rica discussed how they were using MPIs to facilitate policy coordination and budget allocation. Finally, Felipe Roa-Clavijo presented the current MPPN communications materials, particularly Dimensions magazine and the new policy briefing series, engaging with participants about ideas for future issues. Presentations are available here.

The last day began with international agencies presenting on child poverty, conceptualizations of multidimensional poverty, Africa’s movement out of poverty, and regional MPIs. Participants then enjoyed an interlude session with videos and brochures showing how countries are communicating their MPI to policymakers, the media, and the public. IPRCC also shared their online platform for South-South knowledge sharing. Pali Lehohla, Statistician General of Statistics South Africa, gave a rousing keynote on the need to tilt MPI towards planning and the SDGs. In closing, Minister Dlamini of South Africa shared South Africa’s policy initiatives and reiterated their plans to host the 2018 meeting and her hopes for the Network in the future. The meeting concluded by finalising the communiqué and plans for the MPPN for the coming year and sharing commitments for action during the coming year.

The representatives approved the three-point communiqué, which:

  • Calls for channels of SDG reporting for National and Global MP
  • Endorses MPIs as a tool to meet poverty-related SDGs
  • Promotes the use of research to innovate in response to demand

 

Important information:

 

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.

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UN Statistical Commission side event 2017