Working Session on SDG Reporting and Advocacy Seychelles, 2 July 2019

1. Working Session on SDG Reporting and Advocacy Seychelles, 2 July 2019

2. Avenues for Engaging the SDGsDirectly advancing Agenda 2030 • 1. MPI indicators may be related to SDG indicators. • - So reducing the MPI advances the SDGs • 2. MPI makes visible interconnected deprivations • - poor are being left behind in multiple ways • 3. MPI and its indicators are disaggregated by age, region • - this fulfills the SDG emphasis on disaggregation • 4.MPI evidence for integrated multi-sectoral policies • - to break policy silos, coordinate, and accelerate • 5. MPI maps can also be overlaid on environment etc. • - to see if poverty and environmental threats overlap

3. Avenues for Reporting on MPI in the SDGs • Voluntary National Reviews – report on MPI • National SDG Reports / Plans • Cover MPI in SDG events / speeches • Report MPI as indicator 1.2.2 • Report global MPI to track global trends

4. High Level Political Forum: follow up on SDGs 2015 2017 2018 2019 2016 Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies Goal 6 Goal 7 Goal 11 Goal 12 Goal 15  Goal 17 Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world Goal 1 Goal 2 Goal 3 Goal 5 Goal 9 Goal 14 Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality Goal 4. Goal 8. Goal 10. Goal 13. Goal 16.  Goal 17. September at UNGA: SDG Summit Review of SDGs and way forward Adoption of the SDGs First HLPF since the adoption of the SDGs Full cycle of revision of SDGs. Therefore a key moment to reflect on lessons learned and think of innovative ways of reporting in the next cycle of revision

5. Voluntary National Reviews • Facilitate the sharing of experiences, including successes, challenges and lessons learned, with a view to accelerating the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. • Seek to strengthen policies and institutions of governments and to mobilize multi-stakeholder support and partnerships for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. • Serve as a basis for the regular reviews by the high-level political forum (HLPF), meeting under the auspices of ECOSOC. • Voluntary, state-led, undertaken by both developed and developing countries, and involve multiple stakeholders.

6. 27 countries have used the MPI to report progress on SDG1 in the Voluntary National Reviews 2016-2019 Bangladesh  Belize  Bhutan  Chile  Colombia  Costa Rica   Dominican Republic  Ecuador  Egypt  El Salvador  Guatemala  Honduras  India  Indonesia  Jamaica  Jordan  Mexico   Nepal Panama  Philippines  Rwanda  Sierra Leone  Sri Lanka Tajikistan Tonga  Vietnam Zimbabwe 

7. HLPF 2017 Colombia: In recent years, Colombia has seen that the MPI has been, undoubtedly the most effective and efficient tool that we have to coordinate better the states’ work in the country and better focus it on those in need. UNICEF’s Tony Lake: Poverty is disproportionately about children. They comprise nearly a third of the world’s population, but half of all of the multidimensionally poor people. Sudan: There’s income poverty, there’s multidimensional poverty. These indicators …give us the evidence that we need so that everyone can benefit from efforts to eradicate poverty.

8. HLPF 2017 Chile: Chile is deeply committed to the integrated, indivisible nature of Agenda 2030 and the 17 SDGs. Against this backdrop, we believe that it is crucially important to have a multidimensional poverty measure which complements the measurement of poverty by income. Vikas Swarup, Moderator, in closing: • Multidimensional Poverty Indices based on the solid evidence of household’s own deprivation profiles provide a clear monitoring framework and are powerful tools for policy. Many countries are already reporting or intend to report a multi-dimensional poverty measure using [OPHI’s] counting technique for the SDG’s, and the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network now has 53 participating countries and 12 agencies creating a South-South space for leadership and cross-learning. Let’s not be moderate. Let’s be bold. Let’s finish what we started.

9. Bangladesh (2017) writes of plans “for introducing a Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measurement in future” (page 13). Bhutan (2018) mentioned its national MPI and the Child MPI as tools to help eradicate poverty (SDG1): “While multidimensional poverty has reduced significantly rural poverty is much higher than urban poverty: 8.1 per cent compared to 1.2 per cent and children between 0-9 years of age are found to be poorest age group in Bhutan” (page 28). In Chile (2017), the national MPI identifies 20.9% of the population as poor. Chile’s MPI is disaggregated by subnational regions, rural-urban, gender, age cohort, indigenous status. And policy reflects not just the level but also the composition of poverty in terms of education, health, work, housing and environment, and social networks.  In Chile’s consultations preparing for the VNR, they found that one of the most relevant challenges was Poverty in all its dimensions – monetary, and multidimensional.

10. India(2017) made a significant move towards addressing multidimensional poverty by using a multidimensional targeting approach, in order to leave no one behind. Indonesia (2017) flagged multidimensional Poverty as an ‘emerging issue’ that is related to education, health, living standards. Indonesia is working “to ascertain multidimensional poverty in order to improve poverty alleviation programs to be effective in identifying the roots causes of poverty, which are different in each region” (pages 19 and 20). Jamaica (2019) indicates that “A critical next step for Jamaica is the development of a tailored multidimensional poverty index for the country. The approach being considered departs from the conventional, as it seeks to engage community participation in determining the indicators most relevant to the country” (page 25).

11. MPPN 2018 Communique Asked Secretariat to follow up on the reporting channel of indicator 1.2.2 in the SDGs. Target 1.2:by 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions. Indicator 1.2.2:the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions.

12. SDG Indicator 1.2.2 (Tier 2)Only SDG indicator for whichCustodian Agency = National Government At present it is still not possible for Natoinal Governments to report their MPI national MPI, or if they do not have it global MPI or another (regional etc) https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/iaeg-sdgs/tier-classification/

13. SDG Indicator 1.2.2 e-Handbook

14. SDG Indicator 1.2.2Metadata online in Respository

15. SDG Indicator 1.2.2No Data Contact

16. 2018 UNSG’s Report on the SDGs(no mention of non-monetary poverty – nor of poverty in all its forms and dimensions)

17. 2018 SDG Report – Goal 1 mentions 1) $1.90/day poverty 2) coverage social protection cash benefit3) economic losses due to disasters

18. Visibility of MPI in SDGs: • . • . • . • . 1. Voluntary National Reviews of many countries include MPI Does your country’s VNR include it? 2. In 2017, the HLFP had a session on multidimensional poverty with participation by Colombia, China, UNICEF Executive Director, among others. 3. SG’s global SDG report 4. SDG Indicator 1.2.2

19. Supporting Agencies to 1.2.2 – UNDP, UNICEF, and World Bank Supporting agencies met initially with OPHI on behalf of MPPN, since 11/2017. But this is unfunded so progress is slow. As of this week: “We have designed a software system to collect the data. We are finalizing this and we will soon contact IAEG to get their opinion and direction on how to proceed. In the fall IAEG meeting we will present and subsequently launch.”

20. Our actions: Prepare, and Advocate • Pretend that today the supporting agencies present the window at the InterAgency Expert Group of SDG Indicators. • How could the MPPN countries on IAEG comment proactively on this proposal and engage to pilot it?

21. Our actions: Prepare, and Advocate • Pretend that today, an online window is launched whereby countries can upload their MPI, metadata, disaggregate detail, etc. • How could the Secretariat support countries that have an official national MPI now?

22. Our actions: Prepare, and Advocate • Pretend that today, an online window is launched whereby countries can upload their MPI, metadata, disaggregate detail, etc. • How could the Secretariat support countries that do not have an official national MPI? • To report the global MPI • To report their draft national MPI • To report something else

23. Our actions: Prepare, and Advocate • How could the MPPN countries on IAEG comment proactively on this proposal and engage to pilot it? • How could the Secretariat support countries that have an official national MPI now? • How could the Secretariat support countries that do not have an official national MPI? • To report the global MPI • To report their draft national MPI • To report something else

24. Our actions: Prepare, and Advocate • Given that this mandate is unfunded, and has been repeatedly delayed, how can we encourage the supporting agencies to make this deadline? • Given that the SDG database still in 2019, has empty column for 1.2.2, should countries with MPIs send them directly to UNSD as Costa Rica did? • How else can we open a reporting channel for MPI in the SDGs?