GENEVA / PLEDGING EVENT YEMEN
27-Feb-2023
00:01:57
The UN's Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths appealed for USD 4.3 billion to assist 17.3 million of Yemen’s most vulnerable people, after years of grinding war and economic hardship. UNTV CH
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STORY: GENEVA / UKRAINE WAR
TRT: 1:57
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 FEBRUARY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
TRT: 1:57
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 FEBRUARY 2023, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot, Palais des Nations flag alley, nations’ flags flying, a bright day
2. Wide shot, TV cameras in foreground, podium speakers to rear, Press photographer, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“By any standards, it's enormously important. We're looking at 21 - more than - 21.7 million people this year in Yemen in need of humanitarian assistance. And of those we're targeting in this humanitarian response plan, about 17 million.”
4. Med shot, video camera showing Martin Griffiths in viewfinder, the UN official is also to rear and the presser signal is broadcast on a large TV screen
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Last year, the 2022 plan, we received, thanks to the generosity of governments like those here and others, over USD 2.2 billion on a USD 4.3 billion budget. Again, we're looking for about the same amount this year: USD 4.3 billion.”
6. Wide shot, press room, journalists and light panels, TV cameras
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Studer, Assistant Director General, Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland:
“I think it is crucial that we maintain our support for Yemen in particular at this point in time and to also reach the people that we have not reached, for example before the truce.”
8. Med shot, press room, Press photographers, podium speakers
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Studer, Assistant Director General, Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland:
“We call on all parties to the conflict to refrain from obstructing, restricting or interfering in humanitarian operations and we ask specifically for female aid workers to be allowed to access women and girls in need.”
10. Med shot, journalists and podium speakers, other participants following proceedings
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, Deputy Director-General, Head of Department for Multilateral Partnerships, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden:
“In the last year, humanitarian efforts have managed to improve the hunger situation for two million Yemenis, averting famine. And this despite the global food security impact of the Russian aggression. At the same time, we also know that there needs to be an improved humanitarian operating environment, so that assistance is even more effective, that we can do more with each dollar.”
12. Med shot, podium speakers, side shot
13. Med shot, participants looking on
14. Close-up, journalist’s hand holding pen, writing notes in notepad
15. Wide shot, journalists and participants, seated
2. Wide shot, TV cameras in foreground, podium speakers to rear, Press photographer, journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“By any standards, it's enormously important. We're looking at 21 - more than - 21.7 million people this year in Yemen in need of humanitarian assistance. And of those we're targeting in this humanitarian response plan, about 17 million.”
4. Med shot, video camera showing Martin Griffiths in viewfinder, the UN official is also to rear and the presser signal is broadcast on a large TV screen
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“Last year, the 2022 plan, we received, thanks to the generosity of governments like those here and others, over USD 2.2 billion on a USD 4.3 billion budget. Again, we're looking for about the same amount this year: USD 4.3 billion.”
6. Wide shot, press room, journalists and light panels, TV cameras
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Studer, Assistant Director General, Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland:
“I think it is crucial that we maintain our support for Yemen in particular at this point in time and to also reach the people that we have not reached, for example before the truce.”
8. Med shot, press room, Press photographers, podium speakers
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Studer, Assistant Director General, Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland:
“We call on all parties to the conflict to refrain from obstructing, restricting or interfering in humanitarian operations and we ask specifically for female aid workers to be allowed to access women and girls in need.”
10. Med shot, journalists and podium speakers, other participants following proceedings
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, Deputy Director-General, Head of Department for Multilateral Partnerships, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden:
“In the last year, humanitarian efforts have managed to improve the hunger situation for two million Yemenis, averting famine. And this despite the global food security impact of the Russian aggression. At the same time, we also know that there needs to be an improved humanitarian operating environment, so that assistance is even more effective, that we can do more with each dollar.”
12. Med shot, podium speakers, side shot
13. Med shot, participants looking on
14. Close-up, journalist’s hand holding pen, writing notes in notepad
15. Wide shot, journalists and participants, seated
STORYLINE
The UN's Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths appealed today (27 Feb) for USD 4.3 billion to assist 17.3 million of Yemen’s most vulnerable people, after years of grinding war and economic hardship.
Speaking in Geneva ahead of the High-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, Griffiths highlighted how Yemen continues to teeter on the brink of catastrophic food insecurity, with two in three people in need of help.
“By any standards, it's enormously important,” he said. “We're looking at 21 - more than - 21.7 million people this year in Yemen in need of humanitarian assistance. And of those we're targeting in this humanitarian response plan, about 17 million.”
Griffiths urged support for the appeal, co-hosted by Switzerland and Sweden: “Last year, the 2022 plan, we received, thanks to the generosity of governments like those here and others, over USD 2.2 billion on a USD 4.3 billion budget. Again, we're looking for about the same amount this year: USD 4.3 billion.”
Although UN aid coordination office OCHA described Yemen as being “neither in a war of full-scale military offensives”, no formal peace has been declared either, after fighting escalated in March 2015, between the Government and opposition forces that control the capital, Sana’a.
And despite the positive impact for civilians of the truce from 2 April to 2 October last year that led to a 76 drop in conflict-related displacement, victims of landmines and explosive remnants of war increased by 160 percent, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“I think it is crucial that we maintain our support for Yemen in particular at this point in time and to also reach the people that we have not reached, for example before the truce,” said Andrea Studer, Assistant Director General, Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) - Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.
The need for safe aid access throughout Yemen remains crucial for communities struggling to feed themselves, find work and resist flooding linked to the climate crisis. According to OCHA, an estimated 5.4 million—25 percent—of the people in need across Yemen are affected by aid access constraints.
These are most numerous in northwest Yemen, where they are largely bureaucratic impediments, the UN office said. It noted with concern, too, that carjackings, kidnappings and other violence are on the increase, particularly across areas primarily under the control of the internationally recognized Government of Yemen.
“We call on all parties to the conflict to refrain from obstructing, restricting or interfering in humanitarian operations and we ask specifically for female aid workers to be allowed to access women and girls in need,” Studer said.
Today, in the absence of a comprehensive political settlement, continued displacement, the economic situation, and lack of capacity of state institutions, are likely to remain a key driver of needs, OCHA warned.
One of the biggest challenges is displacement estimated at 4.5 million people, or 14 per cent of the population.
“In the last year, humanitarian efforts have managed to improve the hunger situation for two million Yemenis, averting famine,” said Carl Skau, Deputy Director-General, Head of Department for Multilateral Partnerships, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden.
He continued, “And this, despite the global food security impact of the Russian aggression. At the same time, we also know that there needs to be an improved humanitarian operating environment, so that assistance is even more effective, that we can do more with each dollar.”
Speaking in Geneva ahead of the High-Level Pledging Event for the Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen, Griffiths highlighted how Yemen continues to teeter on the brink of catastrophic food insecurity, with two in three people in need of help.
“By any standards, it's enormously important,” he said. “We're looking at 21 - more than - 21.7 million people this year in Yemen in need of humanitarian assistance. And of those we're targeting in this humanitarian response plan, about 17 million.”
Griffiths urged support for the appeal, co-hosted by Switzerland and Sweden: “Last year, the 2022 plan, we received, thanks to the generosity of governments like those here and others, over USD 2.2 billion on a USD 4.3 billion budget. Again, we're looking for about the same amount this year: USD 4.3 billion.”
Although UN aid coordination office OCHA described Yemen as being “neither in a war of full-scale military offensives”, no formal peace has been declared either, after fighting escalated in March 2015, between the Government and opposition forces that control the capital, Sana’a.
And despite the positive impact for civilians of the truce from 2 April to 2 October last year that led to a 76 drop in conflict-related displacement, victims of landmines and explosive remnants of war increased by 160 percent, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“I think it is crucial that we maintain our support for Yemen in particular at this point in time and to also reach the people that we have not reached, for example before the truce,” said Andrea Studer, Assistant Director General, Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) - Europe Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.
The need for safe aid access throughout Yemen remains crucial for communities struggling to feed themselves, find work and resist flooding linked to the climate crisis. According to OCHA, an estimated 5.4 million—25 percent—of the people in need across Yemen are affected by aid access constraints.
These are most numerous in northwest Yemen, where they are largely bureaucratic impediments, the UN office said. It noted with concern, too, that carjackings, kidnappings and other violence are on the increase, particularly across areas primarily under the control of the internationally recognized Government of Yemen.
“We call on all parties to the conflict to refrain from obstructing, restricting or interfering in humanitarian operations and we ask specifically for female aid workers to be allowed to access women and girls in need,” Studer said.
Today, in the absence of a comprehensive political settlement, continued displacement, the economic situation, and lack of capacity of state institutions, are likely to remain a key driver of needs, OCHA warned.
One of the biggest challenges is displacement estimated at 4.5 million people, or 14 per cent of the population.
“In the last year, humanitarian efforts have managed to improve the hunger situation for two million Yemenis, averting famine,” said Carl Skau, Deputy Director-General, Head of Department for Multilateral Partnerships, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden.
He continued, “And this, despite the global food security impact of the Russian aggression. At the same time, we also know that there needs to be an improved humanitarian operating environment, so that assistance is even more effective, that we can do more with each dollar.”
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