The Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations, UNDP’s Regional Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC), and the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) are hosting a high-level Side Event at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2025 to encourage knowledge sharing and collective efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This event will bring together ministers, high-level government officials, and representatives from international agencies to discuss how Multidimensional Poverty Indices (MPIs) can accelerate the achievement of the SDGs and shape the agenda beyond 2030.

Our speakers will include Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), as well as high-level representatives from Ethiopia, Uruguay and UNDP’s Regional Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Format

This side event to the HLPF, hosted by the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations, UNDP RBLAC, and the MPPN, will be a 1.5-hour dynamic discussion with interventions from a panel of Ministers and high-level officials from different organisations.

Welcome remarks

• Gabriela González, Deputy Permanent Representative, Uruguay

Panel 1: Multidimensional measurement for poverty alleviation and wellbeing, global, regional and national commitments

• Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Africa
• Khalid Abu-Ismail, Senior Economics Affairs Officer, Poverty and Development Challenges, UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

Panel 2: Multidimensional poverty and the Second World Summit for Social Development

• Sabina Alkire, Director of OPHI
• Almudena Fernández, Chief Economist, UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean 
• Ana Helena Chacón, former Vice President of Costa Rica, MPI Inaugural Ambassador

Panel 3: The key role of MPIs and multidimensional poverty in national policies, and its implementation for policy

• Marcelo Bisogno, Director, National Institute of Statistics, Uruguay
• Bereket Fesehatsion, Minister of State, Ministry of Planning and Development, Ethiopia
• Gonzalo Hernández Licona, former Executive Secretary National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy of Mexico, MPI Inaugural Champion 
• Sola Afolayan, former MPI Coordinator in Nigeria, MPI Champion 

Final remarks

• Isabel Saint Malo, former Vice President of Panama, MPI Ambassador 

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