Webinar: Using the MPI as a tool for crafting government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic

28^th May 1pm UK (BST+1)  – Webinar in English

Connect to the Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/user/OPHIOxford/featured

 

The Covid-19 has posed unprecedented challenges to all levels of society. As it has been highlighted, there will be many more ‘new poor’ or ‘differently poor’ people as a result of Covid-19. This virus is already exacerbating inequalities in society globally in ways perhaps that we had not predicted. This webinar will feature responses to the Pandemic. It will highlight the case the Statistical Office of Colombia and it will present the Vulnerability Index developed at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.

 

Speakers

Juan Daniel Oviedo – Director of the National Statistic Office. Colombia

Sabina Alkire – Director. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. University of Oxford

Monica Pinilla – Co-Director of Metrics and Policy. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. University of Oxford

 

Moderator

Gonzalo Hernandez Licona. Executive Director of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network.

 

Agenda

Opening Remarks by Gonzalo Hernandez Licona. Executive director of the MPPN

Presentation by Sabina Alkire and Monica Pinilla – Vulnerability Index in response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Presentation by Juan Daniel Oviedo – Colombia’s response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Q&A

Final remarks. Gonzalo Hernandez Licona

 

 

28th May 1pm UK (BST+1) corresponds to

07:00 Kingston 08:00 Washington, New York 12:00 Dakar 13:00 Abuja 14:00 Paris, Rome, Berlin, Cape Town, Lusaka 15:00 Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, Istanbul 16:30 Kabul 17:00 Islamabad 17:30 New Delhi 17:45 Kathmandu 19:00 Hanoi, Bangkok, Jakarta 20:00 Beijing