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Talks are aimed at professionals from the Regional Directorates of Energy and Mines of all regions and specialists from the DGPSM of the sector. The Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) began a cycle of training aimed at professionals from the Regional Directorates of Energy and Mines (DREM) and members of the General Directorate of Mining Promotion and Sustainability called: Importance of measuring multidimensional poverty as a management instrument for the social sustainability of mining and energy operations and projects.
These trainings consist of two sessions: the first shows progress at a global level regarding the measurement of multidimensional poverty; and in the second, participants are trained in the calculation of the Multidimensional Poverty Index, according to the Alkire - Foster methodology of the University of Oxford (England).
Minister Romulo Mucho has indicated that his administration is making progress in giving greater impetus to mining and energy investment, because it is the correct path to achieve the countrys economic growth and defeat poverty, giving more Peruvians job opportunities and closing gaps. of access to basic services.
The training began last June 11 in the city of Cerro de Pasco and will continue in the following weeks with the personnel of the different regional directorates.
It should be noted that the Government declared a national priority the development and approval of the official measurement of multidimensional poverty, complementary to the measurement of monetary poverty, within the framework of the implementation of the National Development and Social Inclusion Policy (PNDIS) to the 2030, through Supreme Decree No. 002-2023-MIDIS of July 2023.
Multidimensional poverty - unlike monetary poverty - considers several dimensions such as health, education, housing and environment, basic services, energy, employment and social security, security and connectivity. In the aforementioned legal device, the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) is in charge of constructing the Multidimensional Poverty Index at the national level.
The MINEM considers that the measurement of multidimensional poverty in the areas of influence of mining and energy operations will allow not only to objectively identify the causes of poverty but also to optimize public investment in these territories, since it considers that the best way to evidence The contribution of mining is generating territorial development with the taxes paid by mining companies and the resources they generate.
