Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena typically known as upon all policy-makers, together with the personal sector and civil society, to make the most of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) formulated by the United Nations Enchancment Programme (UNDP) to know and implement measures to assist change Sri Lanka away from vulnerability and poverty ultimately.
He talked about this when UNDP Resident Advisor Azusa Kubota typically known as on him on the Temple Bushes immediately (Aug 31) along with the members of the UNDP specialists crew Dr Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Enchancment Initiative (OPHI), College of Oxford and Prof Siri Hettige, Professor in Sociology at hand over the UNDP MVI MPI Analysis.
The Prime Minister thanked the Oxford Poverty and Human Enchancment Initiative, the UNDP SURGE Information Hub, and the Citra Social Innovation Lab, which is anchored contained within the Prime Minister’s Workplace in Sri Lanka for the preparation of the data base which may very well be of terribly helpful to effectively design nationwide insurance coverage protection insurance coverage insurance policies for these weak teams.
Ms Kubota outlined that the data for the report was collected from a nationwide stage survey capturing insights from 25,000 households masking the problems associated to weight-reduction plan, teaching, family debt or dangers of disasters.
Dr Alkire talked concerning the MVI MPI present a sturdy proof base to raised perceive the challenges confronted by weak teams and to help policymakers in formulating centered and setting pleasant insurance coverage protection insurance coverage insurance policies.
Prof Hettige talked concerning the data base on poverty and vulnerability may very well be helpful for the federal authorities to effectively plan its safety programmes to ship Sri Lanka as soon as extra on monitor and onto an additional sustainable progress pathway.
Secretary to the Prime Minister Anura Dissanayake, Advisor (Media) Sugeeswara Senadhira and UNDP Workforce Chief Fadhil Bakeer Markar have been furthermore current on this event.
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