OPHI and MPPN hosted a Side Event at UN Statistical Commission 50th Session
On March 5, 2019, 1:15-2:30pm, the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) hosted a side event at the UN Statistical Commission at the UN Headquarters in New York. The theme of the side event was: “Multidimensional Poverty: Measurement for Action”
The event was chaired by Mr Risenga Maluleke, the Statistician-General of South Africa and head of Statistics South Africa (Stats SA).
Confirmed speakers included:
- Camilo Simão Ferreira de Ceita, Director General, National Institute of Statistics, Angola
- Nour Goukouni Nour, Director General, National Institute for Statistics, Economic and Demographic Studies (INSEED), Chad
- Juan Daniel Oviedo Arango, Director General, National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE), Colombia
- Zachary Mwangi, Director General, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics
- Abdella Zidan Allag, Chairman, Bureau of Statistics and Census, Libya
- Mohd Uzir Mahidin, Chief Statistician, Department of Statistics, Malaysia
- Julio Santaella, President, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), Mexico
- Ariunzaya Ayush, Chairperson, National Statistics Office, Mongolia
- Suman Raj Aryal, Director General, Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal – Yemi Kale, Statistician General, National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria
- Ola Awad, President, Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics – Lisa Grace Bersales, National Statistician, Philippines
- Babacar Ndir, Director General, National Agency of Statistics and Demography (ANSD), Senegal
- Imelda Madgalene Atai, Acting Executive Director, Uganda Bureau of Statistics
- Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
The MPPN has hosted side events annually at each of the four most recent UNSC Sessions. As in previous years, this side event provided an opportunity for leading statisticians and MPPN members at the forefront of innovations in poverty measurement to discuss and share their experiences using multidimensional poverty measures.
The 50th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission took place from 5-8 March 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Agenda items included: data and indicators for Agenda 2030, open data, national accounts, regional statistical development, education statistics, household surveys and statistical capacity building, among others.