In February 2022, Citigroup and SOPHIA Oxford launched a report presenting a robust social metrics framework for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing and impact assessment using a multidimensional poverty approach.

MSI Reproductive Choices is made up of 9,000 team members working across 37 countries to deliver compassionate, high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare for all. We currently serve more than 75,000 people daily with services and products, and an estimated 34 million women and girls worldwide use a method of contraception provided by us.

Nyawala, 52, and her young granddaughter, 9, fled a crisis in Southern Sudan and live in a refugee settlement in Northern Uganda. In the mornings Nyawala takes her granddaughter to play with other children in the settlement and takes a reflective walk.

Cameroon has witnessed substantial economic growth in the new millennium, but what has happened with poverty? A recent OPHI Working Paper has indicated that monetary and multidimensional poverty decreased in Cameroon between 2001 and 2018, albeit slowly and to varying degrees across the different demographic, socio-economic, and spatial groups of the population.

Last October, OPHI and the United Nations Development Programme launched the latest edition of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index, containing data disaggregated by gender, ethnicity, race and caste – key information to leave no one behind. In this edition of Dimensions, Kelly-Ann Fonderson briefly describes the main findings of this report.