Addressing multidimensional poverty in developing nations through measurement & policy applications

Scaling & Sustaining Impact winner at the 2025 Social Sciences Impact Awards. Discover more incredible stories of social sciences impact at https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/impact-aw...

Since 2021, OPHI has partnered with 15 countries to release new national Multidimensional Poverty Indices as official poverty statistics for the first time: data that enables nations to develop the targeted public policies to address the causes of poverty. 

Through extensive collaboration with policy actors and meaningful capacity building, OPHI’s work has now informed public policy activities in over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, opening up opportunities for better outcomes for over 3 billion people - delivering impact on a truly international scale. 

The Impact Awards are supported by the University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, in partnership with Oxford Brookes University.