The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) develops national and global measures for multidimensional poverty and wellbeing based on the Alkire-Foster method. This is a statistical method grounded in Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach that creates a counting-based index which can be broken down into an information platform telling us more about the nature of people’s lives.
OPHI's aim is to foster the multidimensional understanding and practice of measuring poverty and well-being. By monitoring poverty indicators across a range of dimensions, such as a household's health, education and living standards, it is possible to gain a greater understanding of the overlapping deprivations poor people face.
OPHI works towards a world with zero poverty by:
-Advancing the methodology of measurement
-Building capacity worldwide
-Monitoring global multidimensional poverty
-Raising awareness: OPHI's work is shared in journals; publications; courses; international seminars; and, digital, print, broadcast and social media. OPHI also acts as the secretariat of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN).
