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SOUTH SUDAN / GLOBAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / GLOBAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT
TRT: 2:22
SOURCE: UNMISS/UNDP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE:ENGLISH/NATS
DATELINE: 17 SEPTEMBER 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
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2. Med shot, troops marching
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Aggrey Tisa Sabuni, Minister of Finance and Economic Development,South Sudan:
“There are three areas we have chosen to focus on, which are quiet interrelated. We cannot choose to reduce conflict to induce vulnerability and not consider its effects on children, on the youth and adults in the different ways they affect these different categories of people. All forget issues of bread and butter.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Toby Lanzer, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General, UNMISS:
“Our pledge from the United Nations is to work with you minister and to work with the National bureau of statistics to help South Sudan get to a stage where there is a substantial body of data available so that it can feature in the human development”.
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. Jean –Louis de Brouwer, Director of operations-European Union Commission
“We expect the parties to abide to their commitments dating back to May for the most ancient of them to facilitate the regional solution for such a crises, but to facilitate the operations of the humanitarian organizations, to facilitate access and to ensure that indeed humanitarian Aid is dispatched to whoever needs it, where ever in the country independently and neutral way, independently, from all kind of criteria or consideration whether it is ethnicity location and so on and so forth.”
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14. Wide shot, people in hall
The outbreak of violent conflict in mid-December 2013 sparked by a political crisis has escalated and evolved into a humanitarian crisis and significantly eroded development gains, journalists were told at the launch of the Global Human Development Report in South Sudan’s capital Juba.
The global report focuses on reducing vulnerabilities and building resilience and argues that as crises spread globally, ever faster and further, understanding vulnerability is critical for securing gains and sustaining progress. The report underlines that financial crises, fluctuations in food prices, natural disasters and violent conflict significantly impede progress.
In the current Human Development Report of 2014, the Human Development Index of South Sudan is still missing. The data on income and education could not be provided on time due to the December crisis. UNDP is working together with the government, in particular the National Bureau of Statistics to ensure that the data are provided in time for the next HDR in 2015.
Before the crisis, South Sudan was making steady progress in key development areas. The National Bureau of Statistics measured economic growth in 2013 at 13.1%. Had the conflict not ravaged the country and oil production could have reached pre-shutdown levels, this high rate of growth would have likely continued.
After the December crisis, UNDP in South Sudan developed a crisis response programme focused on peace and reconciliation, early recovery and governance, so as to address the emerging needs of communities most affected by the violence.
UNDP’s aim was to support the development agenda of the government of South Sudan by facilitating early recovery in livelihoods, engender peace and reconciliation and ensure access to justice and rule of law; all critical for sustainable development.
As part of this Crisis Response Plan, earlier this year UNDP assisted in bringing together the peace bodies to form the National Platform for Peace and Reconciliation, and continue to support these bodies in the development and implementation of a joint peace and reconciliation plan.
The report being launched today very clearly states that development advances will be neither equitable nor sustainable unless vulnerabilities are addressed effectively, and all people enjoy the opportunity to share in human development progress.
The Human Development Report is a flagship report commissioned by UNDP every year to help countries promote sustainable human development. Since the first report in 1990, most countries have registered significant human development.
Meanwhile, speaking at a separate media briefing, the Director of Operations of the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department (ECHO), Mr. Jean- Louis de Brouwer, has called for security and unhindered access in various crisis affected regions in South Sudan.
SOUNDBITE (English) Mr. Jean –Louis de Brouwer, Director of operations-European Union Commission
“We expect the parties to abide to their commitments dating back to May for the most ancient of them to facilitate the regional solution for such a crises, but to facilitate the operations of the humanitarian organizations, to facilitate access and to ensure that indeed humanitarian Aid is dispatched to whoever needs it, where ever in the country independently and neutral way, independently, from all kind of criteria or consideration whether it is ethnicity location and so on and so forth.”
These calls from ECHO come after a two day visit to South Sudan, a country in which they highlighted currently has over a million people in an emergency and in need of food and aid with a quarter of these at risk of starvation. ECHO in the media briefing said the political and ethnic violence which is continuing to uproot people from their homes has taken a toll on the most vulnerable groups.
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