UN / DRC HUMANITARIAN

The Government and the humanitarian community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today launched the country’s Humanitarian Response Plan for 2022 which is seeking “1.88 billion USD to provide humanitarian assistance to 8.8 million vulnerable people,” according to a spokesperson. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:37
• Production Date: 17 February 2022
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
• MAMS Id: 2709927
• Parent Id: 2709927
• Alternate Title: unifeed220217d

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STORY: UN / DRC HUMANITARIAN
TRT: 1:37
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 17 FEBRUARY 2022, NEW YORK CITY

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FILE – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, UN headquarters exterior

17 FEBRUARY 2022, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, spokesperson at dais
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Today, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Government and the humanitarian community launched the country’s Humanitarian Response Plan for 2022. The Plan is seeking 1.88 billion USD to provide humanitarian assistance to 8.8 million vulnerable people.
The humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate in the country, particularly in the eastern provinces of the country, due to a volatile security situation. As we have reported, attacks against civilians, including internally displaced people, have increased over the past year, especially in Ituri and North Kivu provinces.
Today, more than 27 million people in DRC are facing severe and acute food insecurity, with nearly 5.5 million displaced people, forced to move, sometimes several times, and half a million men, women and children, refugees and asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, are hosted in the country.
Humanitarian operations last year were the least funded in the last four years. The limited funding – 39 per cent of the amount needed for the 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan - was of course insufficient for humanitarian organizations to cover the basic needs of the 9.6 million people identified as being the most vulnerable.”
5. Wide shot, spokesperson leaving press room

Storyline

The Government and the humanitarian community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today (17 Feb) launched the country’s Humanitarian Response Plan for 2022 which is seeking “1.88 billion USD to provide humanitarian assistance to 8.8 million vulnerable people,” according to a spokesperson.

Speaking to reporters in New York today (17 Feb), UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the humanitarian situation in the DRC continues to deteriorate, “particularly in the eastern provinces of the country, due to a volatile security situation.” He said attacks against civilians, including internally displaced people, have increased over the past year, especially in Ituri and North Kivu provinces.

Dujarric said, “Today, more than 27 million people in DRC are facing severe and acute food insecurity, with nearly 5.5 million displaced people, forced to move, sometimes several times, and half a million men, women and children, refugees and asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, are hosted in the country.”

The UN spokesperson said humanitarian operations in the DRC last year were the least funded in the last four years. “The limited funding – 39 per cent of the amount needed for the 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan - was of course insufficient for humanitarian organizations to cover the basic needs of the 9.6 million people identified as being the most vulnerable.”