FANTEAKWA NORTH DISTRICT
The MPI report underscore critical challenges that needed to be addressed to ensure inclusiveness and sustainable growth. This report will provide a roadmap for our interventions, highlighting priority areas that require immediate and focused action. The goal of this exercise is to disseminate the report of multidimensional poverty with respect to Fanteakwa North District.
The District Coordinating Director called on the District Statistician in the person of Cyril Edem Dumoga to present the report.
The District Statistician then gave an overview of what multidimensional poverty was. He stated that when we talk of poverty, most often we relate it to one’s income. Income and poverty are inversely related. The higher one’s income the lower the incidence of poverty and vice versa but multidimensional poverty seeks to look at a wide range of factors other that income that determines whether an individual is multidimensionally poor or not.
He stressed that this approach of measuring poverty was developed be the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. Multidimensional poverty recognizes the fact that poverty is not just about money but also lack of access to basic services such as education health care and other services of life. In other words, MPI talks about all forms of deprivations that people face or suffer other apart from income.
