Martín Burt was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to give a lecture on his poverty eradication programs.
At the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos next week, Burt will be one of the panelists at the event called: “Rethinking Politics for a New Era of Poverty,” which aims to take stock of the most recent data to create a picture of what poverty means today and explore the implications for public policy and private sector strategies.
Martín Burt will be part of the panel, on Tuesday, January 17, along with Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS; Vilas Dhar, President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation; Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand; and Gargee Gosh, President of Global Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
On the occasion, the experts will try to provide answers, based on their experiences, to the following questions: Is poverty today the same as before, or is there something new about it in the contemporary context, while we face the continuous effects of the pandemic of covid-19 and the so-called global ‘polycrisis’?; What are the limitations in the way we understand and talk about poverty today?
EUROPEAN TOUR
Likewise, once his participation in Davos has concluded, Martín Burt will travel to Brussels, Belgium, invited by the European Commission, which requested his support for the vulnerable Roma (previously known as Gypsy) communities in Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia.
To end the tour, the Municipality of Genoa, Italy, also extended a special invitation to speak about the implementation of the Poverty Elimination Stoplight in that city.
Martín Burt is the founder of Fundación Paraguaya and creator of the Stoplight for the Elimination of Poverty, a tool that allows families to measure their own multidimensional poverty. Using a simple application, it allows a survey that raises 50 indicators for families to make their own diagnosis by marking in green where they are doing well; in yellow, where they need to improve; and in red where they are wrong. The Stoplight not only identifies the strengths and weaknesses of families in a state of vulnerability, but also proposes an action plan so that each member improves or greens their yellows and reds, through training, financial incentives, and motivation.
The traffic light is implemented in more than 50 countries around the world.
