SOMALIA / WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Efforts to provide essential services for internally displaced children and youth and breaking down barriers to youth employment anchored a visit to Baidoa today by the United Nations envoy to Somalia, James Swan. UNSOM

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:05:13
• Production Date: 9 March 2020
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: JAMES SWAN
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ASSISTANCE MISSION IN SOMALIA - UNSOM
• Subject Topical: GENDER EQUALITY; WOMEN
• Geographic Subject: SOMALIA
• MAMS Id: 2539134
• Parent Id: 2539134
• Alternate Title: unifeed200309b

Description

STORY: SOMALIA / WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
TRT: 5:13
SOURCE: UNSOM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 8 MARCH 2020, BAIDOA, SOMALIA

Shotlist

1. Aerial shot, Baidoa, Somalia.
2. Wide shot, Swan diosembarking
3. Wide shot, Guard of honour by AMISOM forces
4. Wide shot, Swan inspecting the guard of honour
5. Tracking shot, tents
6. Various shots, Swan and UNICEF Representative, Werner Schultink at a UNICEF funded IDP school
7. Various shots, Swan visiting vocational training center working on basic electronic work, plumbing and soap making.
8. SOUNDBITE (English) James Swan, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia:
“We also visited a vocational training centre where 200 young people have been trained in a variety of skills to enter the work-force – like plumbing, basic electronics, solar panel installations and building of latrines. Both young women and young men are learning these skills – breaking down gender barriers and underscoring that women are not limited in what they can do. there are no boundaries.”
9. Various shots, women at a clean water point at an IDP camp
10. Tracking shot, women celebrating International Women’s day at an IDP camp
11. Various shots, girls at the vocational training center.
12. Zoom in, President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed ‘Laftagareen.’ meeting Swan and delegation.
13. Zoom out, Swan and President talking
14. SOUNDBITE (English) James Swan, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia:
“The UN family is celebrating International Women’s Day, which highlights the need for gender equality. Of particular relevance for Somalia is the importance of women’s political participation. In this respect, I congratulate the South West State administration for its efforts to promote women’s empowerment and political representation. This was illustrated during the recent District Council formation in Dinsoor. I hope that the Dinsoor model, in which women now hold 10 of 21 seats, can set the standard for other upcoming political processes in Somalia.”
15. Med shot, vocational training center

Storyline

Efforts to provide essential services for internally displaced children and youth and breaking down barriers to youth employment anchored a visit to Baidoa today by the United Nations envoy to Somalia, James Swan.

While in the administrative capital of South West State, the UN official was accompanied by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative, Werner Schultink, and visited an Alternative Basic Education programme that is providing vital learning opportunities to the most vulnerable and marginalized children of Somalia in the Hagarkaa iyo Madi Geri camp for internally displaced persons.

In Baidoa alone, more than 3,000 children are enrolled in UNICEF-supported Alternative Basic Education schools and by the Ministry of Education and partners.

The education programme visit was followed by a tour of a vocational training centre, managed by GRRN, a UNICEF partner, at which 200 young people have been trained in a variety of skills to enter the work-force, such as plumbing, basic electronics, solar panel installations and building of latrines.

“Both young women and young men are learning these skills – breaking down gender barriers and underscoring that women are not limited in what they can do and there are no boundaries,” Swan said.

The UN envoy also noted that his visit coincided with International Women’s Day, celebrated globally on 8 March with the aim of highlighting women’s empowerment and the need for gender equality, and highlighted South West State’s progress in the area of women’s political participation.

While in Baidoa, the UN Special Representative also met with President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed ‘Laftagareen.’ On the topic women’s political participation in Somalia, Swan congratulated the South West State administration for its efforts to promote women’s empowerment and political representation.

The UN envoy also welcomed the South West State’s efforts to form – as per the state’s constitution – a new regional Assembly that will be properly selected and represent the various South West State communities. The United Nations has supported this assembly-formation process through training of the state’s Technical Selection