Table 2. Use of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Method for Monitoring and Evaluation.

Advantages of the OPHI Method for Monitoring and Evaluation
-Expands dimension measures in critical areas including health
-Incorporates program specific detail in comparative evaluation
-Uses national comparisons for benchmarking and scale, and efficiency
-Isolates where the greatest impact is (and potentially unintended)
-Detects indirect benefits in poverty reduction from specific interventions
-Facilitates the collaboration between development policy makers who are increasingly measuring multidimensional poverty and development practitioners on the ground
-Allows for temporal and geographic comparisons