OPHI, the MPPN and the Government of Colombia host special side-event at Cartagena Data Festival

OPHI, the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) and the Government of Colombia hosted a special side event at the Cartagena Data Festival on 21 April 2015. The event presented a new multidimensional poverty measure that can help to “end poverty in all its forms everywhere” – a key component of the first goal of the final Open Working Group proposal for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Featuring a high-level dialogue among eminent panelists, the special event highlighted the Colombian national Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and the newly proposed regional MPI for Latin America. It also showed how a Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (the MPI 2015+), supported by a data revolution, as part of the core poverty indicators of the SDGs can help to eradicate extreme poverty after 2015. The MPI 2015+ complements income poverty measures and shines a high-resolution lens on poverty, showing who is poor and how they are poor, helping to ensure that the SDGs “leave no one behind”.

Speakers included:

• Tatyana Orozco, Director, Department for Social Prosperity, Colombia
• Xavier Mancero, Senior Statistician, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
• Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford

Further information

Find out more about the Global MPI 2015+ and the Colombian MPI.