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A Smarter Way to Measure What Matters
Wellbeing as Strategy, Not Option
Understanding and improving the wellbeing of your workforce, suppliers, and communities is now a strategic imperative—not just a nice-to-have.
Smarter Decisions Through Data
Multidimensional wellbeing metrics help target social investments, optimize resource allocation, and enhance overall business performance.
Beyond the Workplace
Support not just employees, but entire households—creating safer, more resilient environments and strengthening brand trust.
Thrive Together
Whether it’s compliance, engagement, or stability—businesses flourish when their ecosystem does. It’s about doing things right and doing the right thing.
Our Relationship with Oxford University
Wise Responder was created by Sophia Oxford, an incubator from Oxford University and its research center OPHI, known for pioneering multidimensional poverty and wellbeing measurement. Over the past decade, OPHI’s approach has been adopted by the UNDP, the World Bank, and over 30 countries as an official poverty metric. Now, Wise Responder brings this globally recognized methodology to private-sector companies across both developed and emerging markets.
Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), developed by OPHI, offers a more accurate way to measure poverty beyond income alone. It recognizes that poverty involves multiple, simultaneous deprivations, such as poor health, lack of education, or inadequate living standards. This approach reveals not just who is poor, but how they are poor.
The global MPI, created by OPHI and the UNDP in 2010, measures acute poverty in over 100 developing countries and is published annually. Additionally, many countries have adapted the methodology to develop their own national MPIs, tailored to local contexts and fully owned by their governments, integrating them into national policy and governance systems.
Business Multidimensional Poverty Index (BMPI)
The Business Multidimensional Poverty Index (BMPI) is a rigorous methodology from Oxford University, considered the world’s leading tool to assess the wellbeing and challenges of employees and their families. Through a questionnaire and measurement system, it identifies which employees live in poverty and pinpoints specific deprivations—such as housing, health, or education—guiding targeted action to improve lives.
Drawing on national MPIs in Latin America and private sector experience, Sophia Oxford has developed a regional BMPI that helps companies standardize efforts across countries and fosters public-private collaboration in poverty reduction. Sophia Oxford is the exclusive licensee of the BMPI.