MPPN Side Event to the 54th United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC)
'Multidimensional Poverty Data: Post-Pandemic Insights and Policy Applications'
The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) is hosting a side event at the 54th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC). The Commission is the key UN statistical entity, with participation from national and international statistical leaders from across the world.
Amidst rising global economic crises and instability, effective and sustained policies and statistically-informed political momentum are vital to reduce poverty in all its dimensions, especially amongst the more vulnerable. The number of countries who report their own context-specific national Multidimensional Poverty Indices to guide policymaking and track and report progress on multiple SDG indicators (including 1.2.2) continues to increase. In keeping with the 2023 UNSC theme of ‘Data and Indicators for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, this event will convene Statistician Generals from over ten countries to share insights and experiences. Interventions will also touch on geospatial merging with environmental or conflict data; MPIs for refugee and IDP populations, and case studies of policy uses of MPIs.
The most recent UNDP-OPHI global Multidimensional Poverty Index report raised an urgent call for the data revolution not to leave household survey-based poverty data behind. Speakers will share improvements or nuances on post-pandemic data collection and on the inclusion of MPI indicators in this census round. Governments, agencies and other interested stakeholders will benefit from this knowledge exchange to work towards better data for better lives.
This side event to the UN Statistics Commission, hosted by the MPPN and taking place at the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 828 2nd Ave, New York, will be a 1.5-hour dynamic discussion with interventions from a panel of lead statisticians from national governments. The event is open for all to attend.