UN General Assembly Side Event 2019
"Call for action: Using multidimensional poverty indices to lead progress in the SDGs" On 25 September at the UN Headquarters in New York, OPHI held a Side Event during the SDG Summit at the 74th UN General Assembly for 19 high level speakers to share their experiences of using multidimensional poverty indices to lead progress in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 1: end poverty in all its forms everywhere. The Side Event was hosted by the President of Costa Rica on behalf of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN), with support from the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford.
2:42 - H.E. Carlos Alvarado, President of Costa Rica
19:27 - H.E. Eugene Rhuggenaath, Prime Minister of Curaçao
26:11 - H.E. Barry Faure, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Blue Economy, Seychelles, delivering a message on behalf of H.E. Danny Faure, President of Seychelles
32:08 - Luis Felipe Lopez Calva. Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, UNDP delivering a message on behalf of Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
37:54 - H.E. Teodoro Ribera Neumann, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chile
47:23 - H.E. Jackson Mthembu, Minister in the Presidency, South Africa
54:34 - H.E. Tandi Dorji, Foreign Minister, Bhutan
1:00:35 - H.E. Shamsul Alam, Member (Senior Secretary), National Planning Commission, Bangladesh
1:05:31 - H.E. Sania Nishtar, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, Pakistan
1:12:30 - H.E. Ghada Fathi Wali, Minister of Social Solidarity, Arab Republic of Egypt
1:19:41 - H.E. Hajiya Sadiya Umar Faruk, Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Nigeria
1:26:28 - H.E. Rosemarie G. Edillon, Policy and Planning Group, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Republic of the Philippines
1:30:28 - Ms Trudi J. Renwick, Assistant Division Chief, Economic Characteristics, Social Economic and Housing Statistics Division, US Census Bureau
1:32:56 - Ms Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary, UN – Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
1:39:52 - H.E Ahmed Aboul Gheit – Secretary General of the League of Arab States. Delivered by H.E Hayfaa Abu Ghazaleh, Assistant Secretary–General, Head of Social Affairs Sector
1:40:27 - Ms. Carin Jämtin, Director General Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
1:41:14 - Ms. Vidhya Ganesh, Director of Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM), UNICEF With thanks to the UN Multimedia AV Library for the footage.
If you would like to watch previous MPPN events at UNGA please see the links below:
2018 http://webtv.un.org/search/using-the-...
2017 http://webtv.un.org/search/using-the-... [English] http://webtv.un.org/search/using-the-... [original]
2016 http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/o...
2015 http://webtv.un.org/search/anchoring-...