Webinar: The Poverty Stoplight: A New, Poverty Metric & Coaching Methodology

Posted by Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal on December 11, 2018

In this Webinar Dr. Burt explains how technology today allows the poor to easily self-diagnose their level of poverty and develop a plan to overcome poverty permanently. Instead of relying only on government indexes, the Poverty Stoplight uses dashboards constructed by poor families themselves as they reflect on their strengths and weaknesses and come up with priorities. Poverty sometimes is caused by lack of money; in other cases, lack of money is a consequence of other issues. Customized, bottom-up, family based plans are easy to construct and powerful for the poor.

Participants will learn about multidimensional poverty, bottom-up approaches, how to adapt poverty indicators to their communities, and how to develop an inventory of local available solutions and strategies.

Thu, December 20, 2018
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-poverty-stoplight-a-new-poverty-metric-coaching-methodology-tickets-52679974221

Presented By: Dr. Martin Burt

Dr. Martin Burt is founder (1985) and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, a 33-year old non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of entrepreneurship and economic self-reliance to eliminate poverty around the world.

He is a pioneer in applying microfinance, microfranchise, youth entrepreneurship, financial literacy and technical vocational methodologies to address chronic poverty around the world. He has developed one of the world’s first financially self-sufficient agricultural and tourism high schools for the rural poor. He is co-founder of Teach a Man to Fish, a global network based in London (3000 members-150 countries) that promotes “education that pays for itself” and which is partnering with more than 50 organizations from 27 countries to establish self-sufficient schools, mostly in rural areas.

He has also developed the Poverty Stoplight, a new poverty measurement tool and coaching methodology that assists families to self- diagnose their level of multidimensional poverty and develop customized plans to eliminate poverty. This new metric is now being implemented in more than 30 countries, including the US and the UK.

Dr. Burt is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum and of the Global Foodbanking Network. In public service, he has served as Chief of Staff to the President of Paraguay, was elected Mayor of Asunción, and was appointed Vice Minister of Commerce.

Dr. Burt has books published on economics, development, municipal government, poetry, and education and has received numerous awards. He holds a PhD from Tulane University Law School and is a Visiting Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the American University of Nigeria.

Dr. Martin Burt was born in Asunción, Paraguay in 1957 where he resides with his family.