MPPN Side Event at 49th UN Statistical Commission 2018
"Disaggregating the Multidimensional Poverty Index to Break Silos of Poverty"
On 7 March, 2018, the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) hosted a side event at the 49th United Nations Statistical Commission on “Disaggregating the Multidimensional Poverty Index to Break Silos of Poverty”.
The side event was chaired by Pali Lehohla, former Statistician-General of Statistics South Africa and Steering Committee member of the MPPN. Speakers included Directors of Statistics from Nepal, Philippines, Ecuador, South Africa, Tanzania, Mongolia, Uganda and Tunisia, with representatives also from Colombia, Rwanda and Egypt, as well as UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia and OPHI.