UN / MDG REPORT WRAP

With the 2015 deadline for achieving the landmark Millennium Development Goals (MDG) less that 550 days away,  Ban Ki-moon launched the final push towards the United Nations targets – many of which have been met or are within reach – and urged a strong, ambitious successor blueprint “that will leave no one behind.” UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:00
• Production Date: 7 July 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF; UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FINANCING; DEVELOPMENT; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS; SECRETARY-GENERAL
• MAMS Id: 1130968

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STORY: UN / MDG REPORT WRAP 2014
TRT: 3.00
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 7 JULY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

RECENT - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior of the United Nations Headquarters

7 JULY 2014, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Wide shot, dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The United Nations 2014 MDG Report, which I am launching today, is the most up-to-date global scorecard. As it makes clear, the MDGs have helped unite, inspire and transform. Many key targets have been met or are within reach.”
5. Wide shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“At the same time, we know that achievements have been uneven between goals, among and within regions and countries, and between population groups. For the most marginalized and vulnerable in society, social exclusion and discrimination are among the greatest obstacles to progress. Unless these imbalances are addressed through bolder and more focused interventions, some targets will not be met.”
7. Wide shot, dais press conference room
8. Wide shot, presser
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Keiko Osaki-Tomita, Lead author of the MDG report, UN-DESA:
“Overall, there’s been a quite important progress –we observe- across all eight MDG goals. Specially in the area of poverty reduction, education and health sectors.”
10. Med shot, presser
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Keiko Osaki-Tomita, Lead author of the MDG report, UN-DESA:
“Unfortunately, the report again with the most recent data shows same areas where we really have to accelerate our efforts and we have to double up our efforts to a make final push to meet the deadline. That area, that we need more attention for instance, we still observe one in four children under age five are stunted; and also, in terms of schooling, education, we still find that 58 million children are still out of school. By the way, half of that population out of school we find in conflict-affected areas.”
12. Med shot, presser
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Holly Newby, Chief of the Data Analysis, UNICEF:
“I believe that we can have no meaningful development and no sustainable future without investing in children. They are the future farmers, lawyers, engineers, doctors, mothers and fathers. And if we all believe this, then we will invest in being able to measure these goals that we’ve set out for them. This is something that UNICEF does.”
14. Wide shot, zoom out dais.

Storyline

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) report makes clear that “many key targets have been met or are within reach.”

Presenting to member states at headquarters today (7 July) a major new report which he called the most up-to-date “global scorecard”, Ban said that those “achievements have been uneven between goals, among and within regions and countries, and between population groups. For the most marginalized and vulnerable in society, social exclusion and discrimination are among the greatest obstacles to progress.”

He warned that, unless these imbalances are addressed through bolder and more focused interventions, some targets will not be met.

Ban urged a strong, ambitious successor blueprint “that will leave no one behind.”

According to The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014, the world has already reached targets on reducing poverty, increasing access to improved drinking water sources, improving the lives of slum dwellers and achieving gender parity in primary school.

Later, the lead author of the MDG report Keiko Osaki-Tomita told reporters that the overall, there had been important progress across all eight MDG goals. Especially, she said, in the area of poverty reduction, education and health sectors.

She added “unfortunately, the report again with the most recent data shows same areas where we really have to accelerate our efforts and we have to double up our efforts to a make final push to meet the deadline.”

Osaki-Tomita also said “we still observe one in four children under age five are stunted; and also, in terms of schooling, education, we still find that 58 million children are still out of school.”

She stressed “half of that population out of school we find in conflict-affected areas.”

Holly Newby, the UNICEF chief of the Data Analysis said the only way to have meaningful development and a sustainable future was to invest in children.

She stressed “they are the future farmers, lawyers, engineers, doctors, mothers and fathers. And if we all believe this, then we will invest in being able to measure these goals that we’ve set out for them. This is something that UNICEF does.”