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Sustainable and Targeted Poverty Solutions: Using the Multidimensional Poverty Index (UNGA 79)

UN General Assembly Side Meeting
Tuesday 24th September 2024
11:00 - 13:00 EDT
Conference Room 2, UN Headquarters, New York

The Federal Republic of Somalia and the MPPN will co-host a High-Level Side Meeting on multidimensional poverty at the 79th UN General Assembly. 

Eradicating poverty in all its dimensions is the greatest global challenge, threatening and jeopardising sustainable development for all, with a greater impact on the most vulnerable. The Political Declaration of the 2023 UN General Assembly restated the vital importance of accelerating progress to reduce poverty in all its forms, prioritizing those experiencing interconnected deprivations and reversing widening inequalities. 

This High-Level Side Meeting will bring together global leaders, senior government officials and international organisations to share their experiences and commitments to using MPIs to accelerate poverty reduction. Leaders will share how they have used MPIs to inform and develop innovative policy actions in the wake of the pandemic and in the context of political uncertainty and fiscal constraints. The event will underscore the significance of political leadership in achieving poverty reduction goals during this crucial time. 

The discussion will be moderated by Professor Sabina Alkire, Director and Dr Ricardo Nogales, Senior Researcher at OPHI. 

Tentative agenda

Opening Remarks: Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director

Leadership Panel:

  • Yussuf Hassan Isaak, Director General of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs on behalf of Minister Mohamed Elmi Ibrahim, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Somalia
  • H.E. John Briceño, Prime Minister of Belize 
  • Michelle Muschett, UN Assistant Secretary-General & UNDP Director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean 
  • José Wellington Barroso de Araújo Dias, Minister of Social Development, Brazil 
  • Sidi Ahmed Ould Bouh, Minister of Economy and Finance, Mauritania
  • Javiera Toro Cáceres, Minister of Social Development and Family, Chile 
  • Lyonpo D. N. Dhungyel, Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Royal Government of Bhutan
  • Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Egypt
  • Marie-Céline Zialor, Minister for Youth, Sports and Family of Seychelles
  • Beatriz Carles de Arango, Minister of Social Development, Panama
  • Obeth Kandjoze, Director General of the National Planning Commission of Namibia 
  • Pável Ernesto Isa Contreras, Minister of Economics, Planning and Development, Dominican Republic
  • Yanchun Zhang, Chief Statistician, United Nations Development Programme on behalf of Achim Steiner, Administrator of United Nations Development Programme  
  • Augustino Ting Mayai, Statistician General, National Bureau of Statistics of South Sudan, on behalf of the Minister Marial Dongrin Ater, Minister of Finance and Planning
  • Fatima Haram Acyl, Deputy Minister of Economy, Planning and International Affairs, Chad
  • Alejandra Botero Barco, Planning and Development Impact Manager, CAF Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean 
  • Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, Director of the Department of Social Inclusion at the Organization of American States (OAS)

Interventions from the floor:

  • Hon Ambassador Marie-Antoinette Rose Quatre, Chief Executive Officer, Africa Peer Review Mechanism
  • Jamie Coats, CEO of Wise Responder 
  • Ana María Marín Morales, OPHI Global Engagement and Events Manager, on behalf of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network 
  • James Foster, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at The Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University

Closing Remarks: Sabina Alkire, OPHI Director

Note for attendees 

Please note that all attendees, both UN Ground Pass holders that require a secondary ticket and non-UN Ground Pass Holders, should collect their ticket for this event at 46th St and 3rd Ave on the day of the event, 24th September, from 9:30 – 10:30am. The pass collection inside the UN Headquarters is no longer available. 

A member of our team, with a banner of the event (please see the image on this webpage), will have your ticket ready and will be able to escort your through the 46th St gate / 2nd Ave checkpoint to the 27th St gate entrance. 

Livestream

For those unable to attend in person, the event will be livestreamed on UN Web TV here. 

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