On March 7, 2018, the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) will host a side event at the 49th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission at the UN Headquarters in New York. The theme of this side event will be: «Disaggregating the Multidimensional Poverty Index to Break Silos of Poverty». It will explore how the MPI can be used to show the disaggregated information (by rural/urban areas, sub-national regions, age groups, gender etc.) necessary to track progress in the Sustainable Development Goals and encourage policies that leave no one behind.
Ambassadors and high level representatives of the Embassies of eight Central American countries visited the OPHI offices at the University of Oxford. El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic already have national measures of multidimensional poverty. Each measure is unique and used to shape policies that impact poverty directly.
A roundtable titled, ‘The Way Forward of the UN Development System on MICs,’ took place on 31 January 2018, in New York, US. Governments discussed the needs of Middle Income Countries (MICs) in the context of the ongoing process of reform of the UN development system, aimed at aligning it with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.