SDGs forum tasks FG on alignment national plan with poverty index
4 years agoL-R: Sadiq Usman, Director, Flour Mills Nigeria; Rushman Murtaza, Deputy Representative, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); Sola Afolayan, National Coordinator, Multidimensional Poverty Index; Semiu Adeniran, Statistician-General of the Federation; Yosola Akinbi, National Coordinator, Core Working Group on Human Capital Development at an interactive panel on ‘Multidimensional Poverty’ organised by the High-Level Forum on SDGs on the sidelines of Nigerian Economic Summit 28 (NES 28) in Abuja
As President Muhammadu Buhari gets set to launch the result of the Multidimensional Poverty Index, (MPI), today amidst concerns about growing poverty, economic experts at the High-Level Forum on the Social Development Goals, (SDGs), have called on the federal government to align its national plan and interventions with multi-dimensional poverty index.