4 May 2022 UNICEF Consensual Approach to Poverty Measurement - D Gordon, S Nandy, G Reese

Presenters:
David Gordon - Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and Professor of Social Justice at the University of Bristol, UK

Shailen Nandy - Professor of International Social Policy in the School of social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK

Discussant: Gwyther Rees, Social & Economic Policy Manager, Office of Research, UNICEF

Chair: Enrique Delamónica, Senior Adviser Statistics and Monitoring, Data and Analytics Section, DAPM, UNICEF

Abstract:
The SDGs require countries to report on progress in tackling poverty in all its dimensions for children and adults. Valid and reliable child and family multidimensional poverty measurement requires the collection of some new data to supplement and complement the traditional UBN (Unmet Basic Needs) deprivation indicators. The Consensual Approach provides a means to do this in an effective and policy relevant way. This talk sets out (briefly) the what, the why and the how of the Consensual Approach.

Bios:

David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and Professor of Social Justice at the University of Bristol, UK. He has worked with UNICEF for over 20 years on child poverty measurement and in 2006 and 2007, he was given the tremendous honour of addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations about child and youth poverty on behalf of UNICEF and UN DESA.

Shailen Nandy is a Professor of International Social Policy in the School of social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. His research focuses on how better indicators of child poverty can be developed to inform anti-poverty policies.