WFP / YEMEN FUNDING

World Food Programme (WFP) urgently needs USD 570 million to feed twelve million of the most vulnerable and food insecure Yemenis for the next six months. Some twenty million Yemenis – or 70 percent of the population – would be severely food insecure without humanitarian food aid. WFP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:11
• Production Date: 22 February 2019
• Asset Language: Arabic; English
• Corporate Name: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME - WFP
• Subject Topical: CONFLICT SITUATION; FOOD CROPS; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: YEMEN
• MAMS Id: 2360217
• Parent Id: 2360217
• Alternate Title: unifeed190222b

Description

STORY: WFP / YEMEN FUNDING NEEDS
TRT: 3:11
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ARABIC /ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE:4-18 FEBRUARY 2019, VARIOUS LOCATIONS, YEMEN

Shotlist

8 FEBRUARY 2019, ROAD BETWEEN SANAA AND HODEIDAH, YEMEN

1.Tracking shot, mountainous countryside

6 FEBRUARY 2019, HAJJAH, YEMEN

2. Wide shot, exterior, hospital in Hajjah
3. Pan left, medics carrying a man on a stretcher
4. Tracking shot, mothers with kids in hospital room
5. Med shot, Safia with her malnourished daughter Mouaid
6. Close up, Mouaid
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Safia, Mouaid’s mother
“She was sick and we always tried to treat her. Her health condition became worse and she turned to skin on bones.”
8. Various shots, Mouaid
9. Med shot, severely malnourished Jaber Ahmed
10. Med shot, medics giving WFP supplied special fortified food to patients
11. Med shot, mother feeding her child with special fortified food

8 FEBRUARY 2019, BAJIL, YEMEN

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Anderson, Country Director, WFP Yemen:
“We know from our information that we had collected last year that our food assistance actually helped prevent a famine and in a number of very hard hit districts the food security situation improved. So, we know that we are on the right track, but we desperately need resources. This year alone we need about 1.5 billion dollars.”

12 FEBRUARY 2019, ADEN, YEMEN

13. Various shots, WFP Biometric Registration

18 FEBRUARY 2019, SANA’A, YEMEN

14. Med shot, woman working on computer
15. UPSOUND (Arabic) operator talking on the phone:
“Can you find someone who can read to check the expiration date on the date bar for me?”

4 FEBRUARY 2019, SANA’A, YEMEN

16. Various shots, food distribution

8 FEBRUARY 2019, SANA’A, YEMEN

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Anderson, Country Director, WFP Yemen:
“We have a very elaborate system of monitoring at multiple levels to ensure that the right people are first and foremost targeted but then that we confirm that they have actually received the assistance and we find out more about the impact.”
18. Various shots, displaced family from Hodeidah sharing a meal

Storyline

World Food Programme (WFP) urgently needs USD 570 million to feed twelve million of the most vulnerable and food insecure Yemenis for the next six months. Some twenty million Yemenis – or70 percent of the population – would be severely food insecure without humanitarian food aid.

Mouaid Alquattni is 18 months old. Weighing only 3 kilos, he is severely malnourished. Several weeks ago his mother, Safia, brought his four-year-old sister, Worood (“Flowers”) to the same hospital where she recovered enough to be discharged. But a few days after coming home, Worood relapsed and died. Safia is now terrified that Mouaid will die.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Safia, Mouaid’s mother
“She was sick and we always tried to treat her. Her health condition became worse and she turned to skin on bones.”

Severely malnourished Jaber Ahmed is 3months old and weighs only 2.5 kilograms instead of 6.5 which would be normal for his age. His mother brought him to the hospital by bus from a small village 60 kms away, where doctors are treating the malnourished children with the WFP-supplied special fortified food.

In 2019, WFP is aiming to feed 12 million of the most vulnerable and food insecure people a month – a 50 percent increase over 2018 targets. This level of response is essential to prevent the food security situation deteriorating.

SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Anderson, Country Director, WFP Yemen:
“We know from our information that we had collected last year that our food assistance actually helped prevent a famine and in a number of very hard hit districts the food security situation improved. So, we know that we are on the right track, but we desperately need resources. This year alone we need about 1.5 billion dollars.”

WFP is rolling out its most ambitious biometric registration scheme to date in Yemen. This process has already begun in southern Yemen and the agency is hoping to begin registration in the north in the coming months. This will give a huge boost to the transparency and accountability of our operations and help ensure that the right food reaches the right people at the right time on a consistent basis.

WFP also operates call centers in Sana’a and Amman that allows people to make complaints, report errors of difficulties receiving assistance.

SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Anderson, Country Director, WFP Yemen:
“We have a very elaborate system of monitoring at multiple levels to ensure that the right people are first and foremost targeted but then that we confirm that they have actually received the assistance and we find out more about the impact.”

WFP’s average monthly requirements in 2019 have increased to around US$176 million a month as we scale up our operations in Yemen. Apart from urgently needing USD 570 million to ensure uninterrupted assistance for the next six months, the agency is facing an unmet need of US$1.5 billion for all of 2019.