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NIGERIA / LOWCOCK STEINER VISIT
STORY: NIGERIA / LOWCOCK STEINER VISIT
TRT: 02:58
SOURCE: OCHA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 OCTOBER 2018, BAMA AND NGWOM / BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
06 OCTOBER 2018, BAMA IDP CAMP, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
1. Wide shot, Lowcock and Steiner arriving at Bama IDP camp
2. Med shot, Lowcock and Steiner in registration tent
3. Med shot, SEMA chief, Ya Bawa Kolo, talking about new arrivals to the camp
4. Traveling shot,, internally displaced people
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Lowcock, Under Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“So Achim Steiner and I have come here together both to see the humanitarian crisis – huge numbers of displaced people, huge numbers of children especially suffering from malnutrition – but also to see the way people are thinking about and planning for recovery. What we don’t want to see is people being stuck in this camp for years, after years, after years.”
6. Med shot, displaced child
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Lowcock, Under Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator:
“We have seen fantastic work being done both by the local authorities, the State Emergency Management Agency, and by UN agencies, and by lots of NGOs. Th stories people have told us are very shocking. They tell us stories of people having escaped from the insurgency, of having been forced to be sex slaves for Boko Haram fighters. You can see behind me a group of women who are getting counseling and other psychological and social support, and income-generating activities as part of their recovery.”
8. Close up, IDP woman, listening.
9. Med shot, Head of SEMA with Lowcock and Steiner talking
10. Med shot, baby chewing on mother clothes
11. Med shot, Steiner and Lowcock talking about the baby
12. Close up, baby’s mother laughing
13. Wide shot, girls jumping with skipping rope
14. Wide shot, girls jumping with skipping rope
15. Wide shot, Lowcock and Steiner sitting with group of adolescent girls
16. Wide shot, Lowcock and Steiner sitting with group of adolescent girls
17. Med shot, adolescent girl explaining she was captive of Boko Haram in the Sambisa forest
18. Pan, groups of girls talking and smiling
06 OCTOBER 2018, NGWOM VILLAGE, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
19. Wide shot, Steiner and Lowcock walking into Ngwom community
20. Med shot, women sitting and listening to speeches
21. Med shot, Lowcock and Steiner cutting blue ribbon during inauguration of a new school funded by UNDP in Ngwom
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator:
“Mark Lowcock and I are here in the north-east of Nigeria where, essentially, we are trying to look at how the United Nations family and the Government of Nigeria, NGOs, the international community, are helping people who have been affected by the violence in this region. This morning we visited one of those camps where 27,000 internally displaced people have fled from violence and trying to survive; and are looking forward to their future. This afternoon we have come together to the village of Ngwom, here, that three years ago was completely destroyed by Boko Haram, leading to over 300 families having to flee. Today, we have inaugurated a new school, we visited a health clinic, and over 327 families have returned to their old village and are starting to rebuild their lives.”
23. Close up, man playing local drum
24. Wide shot, man and woman dancing
25. Med shot, man playing local trumpet
26. Med shot, woman dancing.
United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock visited Nigeria on 5 and 6 October.
On 6 October, they visited projects in Bama town and Ngwom community in Borno, the state most affected by the ten-year conflict, where humanitarian and development workers are providing life-saving assistance and implementing development programmes. The two officials heard first-hand testimonies from people affected by the Lake Chad Basin crisis who are trying to rebuild their lives.
Lowcock and Steiner jointly called on national and international partners to reinforce joint efforts to address the dire humanitarian needs in the conflict-affected north-eastern Nigerian states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, while at the same time speed up the recovery of livelihoods.
The Government of Nigeria has launched recovery initiatives and efforts in north-east Nigeria aimed at rapid stabilization. Early recovery and livelihood activities implemented by UN agencies and international and local NGOs seek to address the underlying causes of the conflict, lay the foundations for sustainable development and prevent aid dependency.
The humanitarian crisis in Nigeria’s north-east has spilled over into the Lake Chad region. It remains one of the most severe in the world today with 7.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in the worst-affected states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe alone. Food security and the nutrition situation remains extremely fragile across the north-east, particularly given the high levels of aid dependency, compounded by the lack of access to land or other livelihood opportunities. Up to 3 million people are estimated to suffer from critical food insecurity. Almost a million children aged from 6 months to 5 years are acutely malnourished, with 440,000 facing Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM).
Steiner and Lowcock are continuing their trip together and will visit Chad on 6 and 7 October. They will meet with officials and visit a nutrition center in N’Djamena where UN agencies and NGOs are treating children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
The visit follows an international donor conference held in Berlin in early September during which international donors pledged US$2.5 billion for humanitarian, stabilization and recovery projects in the Lake Chad region.
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