Measuring the interconnected dimensions of poverty to energize policy at 48th UN Statistical Commission
On 7 March 2017, the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) hosted a Side Event at the 48th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission in New York. The Commission is the key UN statistical entity, with participation from national and international statistical leaders from across the world.
The keynote address of Peter Thomson, President of the UN General Assembly, at the High-Level Forum ahead of the Statistical Commission stressed the importance of measuring progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our side event brought together leading statisticians at the forefront of innovations in poverty measurement, to discuss and share experiences with using multidimensional poverty measures for analysing poverty and as a governance tool for targeting, monitoring, and coordination of poverty reduction programmes.
The side event was enthusiastically and ably chaired by Pali Lehohla, Statistician-General for South Africa and a Steering Committee member of the MPPN. Directors of statistics from Colombia, Ecuador, the Philippines, South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Tunisia, Egypt, UNICEF and OPHI Director presented their ongoing work to measure and reduce multidimensional poverty.