Using the Multidimensional Poverty Index to Track Progress in the SDGs (UNGA 72)
This official Side Event at the UN General Assembly in New York showcased how the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)—which reveals in stark detail the overlapping deprivations experienced by poor people—can energize a coordinated, effective, and multi-sectoral attack on poverty in all its dimensions, thus helping to make visible the connections across the SDGs as part of a poverty reduction strategy that aims to ‘eave no one behind’. High-level participants from 18 countries and international institutions highlighted their experiences or plans for developing and using MPIs to tackle poverty and track progress across the SDGs.
The event was organized by the Government of Honduras on behalf of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN), with the support of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).