GENEVA / YEMEN UPDATE

The UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen said that “Yemen crisis is a very severe crisis—a catastrophe—and it’s been overlooked because of what is happening elsewhere in the Middle East.” UNTV CH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:46
• Production Date: 19 February 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 1567779
• Parent Id: 1567779
• Alternate Title: unifeed160219d

Description

STORY: GENEVA / YEMEN UPDATE
TRT: 02:45
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 19 FEBRUARY 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, Palais des Nations
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Syria is obviously on the TV screens, on every major channel. We find it difficult to get the humanitarian story out in a way that brings attention to it. I believe that the Yemen crisis is a very severe crisis—a catastrophe—and it’s been overlooked because of what is happening elsewhere in the Middle East. I don't think it’s helpful to compare, you know, crisis for crisis, but I would say that Yemen is as difficult and as dangerous, and is a challenge for humanitarians as Syria is. Maybe not in terms of scale but in terms of intensity.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The most critical needs we have at the moment are the fact that there are over 14 million people who are food insecure. And of those 7.6 million people who are severely food insecure. It's a very terrible situation that has befallen the country of Yemen. And the people struggle on a daily basis to actually survive. The economic sector, the banking sector, has all but collapsed. The basic services in the community are falling apart. There is over 14 million people who lack access to adequate health care and there are over 3 million women and children who need nutritional support.”
6. Close up, journalist
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“1.8 billion is for, to serve, address the needs of some, of over 8 million people who are requiring assistance. Of those its mostly food and the target for WFP is to try and reach by the end of the year some 7.6 million people on a regular basis and that's the number that’s been identified by the humanitarian needs overview as being the one most severely requiring support.”
8. Close up, journalist
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jamie McGoldrick, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen:
“The numbers of health facilities that have been either hit or damaged is around 600. Of those who have been effected in terms of how they opened—there's 100 that have been hit by shells or airstrikes. The other ones have been damaged for other reasons. They're not working because people don't receive salaries or some of the facilities are occupied by people who are displaced. Or in some cases some military parts are there as well.”
10. Wide shot, journalists

Storyline

The UN humanitarian coordinator for Yemen said that the crisis in Yemen was a "very severe crisis—a catastrophe—and it’s been overlooked because of what is happening elsewhere in the Middle East.”

Speaking to reporters today (19 Feb) in Geneva, Jamie McGoldrick said that the country crisis “is as difficult and as dangerous” as the crisis in Syria, even though it is not as widely covered by media.

The UN humanitarian response plan launched on Thursday (18 Feb) under the title 2016 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan (YHRP) -- brings together over 100 aid organizations in an appeal for US$ 1.8 billion to meet the needs of 21.2 million people – four out of five Yemenis – who are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.

McGoldrick said that “the most critical needs we have at the moment are the fact that there are over 14 million people who are food insecure. And of those 7.6 million people who are severely food insecure. It's a very terribly situation that has befallen the country of Yemen. And the people struggle on a daily basis to actually survive. The economic sector, the banking sector, has all but collapsed. The basic services in the community are falling apart. There is over 14 million people who lack access to adequate health care and there are over 3 million women and children who need nutritional support.”

The humanitarian response plan aims at four strategic objectives which are to save lives, protect civilians across all sectors, promote equitable access for women and men and support resilience and sustainable recovery.