Engaging International Institutions in Multidimensional Poverty

这项提议的目的是分享ESRC-DFID最初赠款中产生的学术、可信和基于证据的信息，以改变联合国机构和相关国际机构衡量和报告贫困的方式。通过讨论、辩论和介绍研究成果，非洲发展倡议和合作者将参与讨论（改进的）指标，这些指标将在新的可持续发展目标中衡量贫困的各个方面。这项工作反过来将对全球贫困产生直接的经济和社会影响。因此，这一建议回应了行为者正在确定衡量可持续发展目标指标的独特时刻。ESRC- dfid在国家层面资助的研究使得OPHI去年被ESRC授予国际影响力奖。该提案将ESRC-DFIC赠款的目标影响对象从国家层面的决策者转移到国际层面，联合国统计司召集了一个机构间专家工作组，以确定未来15年衡量贫困（以及其他主题）的指标，作为可持续发展目标（sdg）的一部分。更具体地说，目标受众包括联合国统计司和组成该司的各国政府；可持续发展目标指标机构间专家工作组，世界银行，全球贫困衡量的牵头机构（该机构本身正在考虑新的全球贫困指标，OPHI担任其委员会顾问）；选定国家的外交部和联合国代表团以及可持续发展解决方案网络等全球贫困衡量的主要利益攸关方。这场辩论、讨论和决策的关键时间是2016年9月至3月。我们计划将这一研究成果传达给这些受众，以指导在可持续发展目标范围内衡量贫困的辩论和决策。计划的具体活动包括：-在联合国大会的会外活动中，与多维贫困对等网络的各国政府一道，讨论新的全球MPI及其作为可持续发展目标指标的相关性。-向目标受众传播非洲国家统计局编写的新出版的《开放的世界》图书，并促进与联合国和世界银行统计学家的研讨会讨论。-与世界银行、联合国、联合国国家代表和主要非国家利益相关者（如SDSN）的关键人物进行一对一讨论，讨论研究成果及其相关性。-至少举行两次MPPN国家工作组会议，讨论研究成果，以及如何将讨论扩大到各国外交部、联合国国家代表团、统计学家和其他参与可持续发展目标指标进程的人员。-在2016年3月联合国统计委员会年会上，各国将与其伙伴国家一起举办会外活动。这一会外活动在联合国关于指标的辩论和决策过程中可能是必不可少的。-在整个赠款期间，OPHI将通过适当渠道为这些研究用户编写和分发打包的结果。这些具体活动将有利于技术人员、统计人员和以证据为基础的决策者，他们将对多维贫困衡量方法及其政策实用性有更好的认识和理解。这将为他们制定新的可持续发展目标指标提供所需的工具。如果OPHI的研究结果被联合国采纳，它不仅会改变世界看待贫困的方式，还会以一种综合的、多部门的方式处理贫困问题，为未来几十年的国家公共政策提供信息。这将对全球极端贫困人口产生影响。

The objective of this proposal is to share the academic, credible, evidence-based information generated in the original ESRC-DFID grant to transform the way that the United Nations institutions and associated international institutions measure and report on poverty. Through discussion, debate and presentations of research results, OPHI and collaborators will engage in the process of discussing the (improved) indicators that will measure poverty in all its dimensions in the new Sustainable Development Goals. This work, in turn, will have a direct economic and social impact on global poverty. This proposal thus responds to a unique moment in time when actors are determining the indicators to measure the Sustainable Development Goals.The uptake of the ESRC-DFID sponsored research at the national level led to OPHI being awarded the International Impact award by ESRC last year. This proposal moves the ESRC-DFIC grant's targeted impact audience from national level policy makers to the international level, where the United Nations Statistics Division has convened an inter agency expert working group to define the indicators that will measure poverty (among other topics) over the next 15 years as part of the Sustainable Development Objectives (SDGs). More specifically, the target audiences include the UN Statistics Division and the Governments that make it up; the Inter-Agency Expert Working Group on SDG Indicators, the World Bank, the lead agency focused on global poverty measurement (which is itself considering new global poverty indicators with OPHI as an Advisor on its commission); the Foreign Affairs Offices and UN Missions of selected countries and key stakeholders in global poverty measurement such as the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The crucial time for this debate, discussion and decision-making is between September and March 2016. We plan to communicate this body of research to these audiences in order to educate the debate and decision-making on measuring poverty within the SDGs. The specific activities planned include: - Join with governments in the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network in a Side Event at the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the new global MPI and its relevance as an indicator in the SDGs. - Disseminate the new OPHI authored OUP book to the target audiences and promote seminar discussions with statisticians at the UN and World Bank. - One-on-one discussions with key figures at the World Bank, the UN, National UN representatives and key non-state stakeholders (such as the SDSN) to discuss the research findings and their relevance.- At least two meetings of a working group of MPPN countries to discuss the research findings and how to broaden the discussion to Foreign Ministries, national UN Missions and statisticians and others involved in the SDG Indicator process.- With its MPPN partner countries hold a side event at the UN Statistics Commission Annual Meeting in March 2016. This side event could be essential in the UN debate and decision making process on indicators.- Throughout this grant period, OPHI will prepare and disseminate results packaged for these research users through appropriate channels.These specific activities would benefit the technical staff, statisticians and evidence-based policy makers who would emerge with better knowledge of and understanding of the multidimensional poverty measurement methodologies and their practicality for policy. This would give them the tools needed as they set the indicators for the new SDGs.If the results of OPHI's research were to be adopted by the UN, it would transform the way the world not only views but also deals with poverty in an integrated and multi-sectoral manner, informing national public policies over the next few decades. The impact would be on the extreme poor at a global level.