Ms Laura Pabón leads the Directorate of Social Development in the National Planning Department in Colombia, and participates in the Technical Secretariat of the Equity Roundtable that brings together ten government entities to follow up on poverty reduction and other social indicators.

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) uses a multidimensional poverty approach for their work. In this interview, Lead Economist at Sida, Elina Scheja talks to Felipe Roa-Clavijo about this framework and the way in which it is operationalised in the field.

In this interview, Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director, talks about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways that countries could prevent and mitigate its impact on people living in multidimensional poverty – and in the end, make permanent change.

Due to the need of the Ministries of Finance and Ministry of Territory Administration and State Reform (MAT in Portuguese) to identify the level of poverty of each municipality and group them into technically sound and useful classifications for the distribution of the public budget (OGE in Portuguese), we contacted the National Institute of Statistics (INE) so that we could also calculate poverty on a municipal level.

In Angola, UNDP has established a solid and fruitful partnership with the National Institute of Statistics (INE), which has led to key results such as the first of Angola’s SDG baseline indicators reports and technical trainings for local governments on multidimensional poverty.