The Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) is hosting a webinar on the transformative power of official multidimensional poverty statistics for social development. Directors of government statistics departments across the globe and international organisations, will share their experiences of how MPIs that are rigorous, transparent, and regularly updated have policy traction – and why this matters, especially in fiscally-constrained times. The aim of the event is to foster dialogue, build capacity, and strengthen cooperation to make progress towards sustainable development.

Understanding interlinkages across poverty-related deprivations, and responding with high-impact integrated policies, is pivotal in order to accelerate progress towards poverty eradication – SDG1. The Pact for the Future placed poverty eradication at the heart of efforts to achieve the 2030 Agenda, and called for measures that fully capture progress on sustainable development, and go beyond GDP. And this is the first theme of the World Summit on Social Development in Qatar. So how can statistics contribute vigorously now, in new and powerful ways?

Register to join this webinar via the Zoom link below. You can find out more information about the event on the OPHI website: ophi.org.uk/event/transformative-power-multidimensional-poverty-statistics-social-development