Launch of 'How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Using the MPI to inform the SDGs'

In this event, OPHI and the United National Development Programme (UNDP) launched a handbook entitled 'How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Using the MPI to inform the SDGs' at a Side Event of the High-Level Political Forum at the UN.

Speakers: 

• Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Policy and Programme Support Bureau 
• H.E. Ms Gloria Alonso, Minister of National Planning, Government of Colombia
• Ms Sanyukta Samaddar, Adviser-SDGs at NITI AAYOG, Government of India 
• Mr Riaz Fatyana, Convener, National SDG Parliamentary Task Force and Chairman of Standing Committee on Human Rights and Law, National Assembly of Pakistan. 
• Professor James E. Foster, Oliver T. Carr Jr. Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University 
• Dr Sabina Alkire, Director of OPHI
   
• Download How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI): Using the MPI to inform the SDGs
• Read summary of the event
• Watch recording of the event