UN / HAITI UPDATE

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters in New York that the World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday “was able to provide hot meals to about 13,000 displaced people,” but said “this service in Port-au-Prince might be shut down next week if new funding is not secured.” UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:01:44
• Production Date: 14 March 2024
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS INTEGRATED OFFICE IN HAITI - BINUH
• Subject Topical: PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCIES; ETHNIC CONFLICT; PEACE AND SECURITY
• Geographic Subject: HAITI
• MAMS Id: 3184735
• Parent Id: 3184735
• Alternate Title: unifeed240314d

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STORY: UN / HAITI UPDATE
TRT: 01:44
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters

14 MARCH 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric at the podium
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Yesterday, the World Food Programme (WFP) was able to provide hot meals to about 13,000 displaced people. But the World Food Programme tells us that this service in Port-au-Prince might be shut down next week if new funding is not secured. WFP urgently needs $10 million to be able to sustain this life-saving program. Overall funding this year for the humanitarian response plan is inching up - very slowly but it is inching up - it is now 3.2 per cent funded with about $21.6 million in the bank. Needless to say, much more is needed to meet Haiti’s humanitarian needs for this coming year.”
4. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), through their national partners, are providing medical assistance via mobile clinics at several sites for displaced people, as well as other key assistance such as water and psychosocial assistance.
As you heard, we are reconfiguring our presence in the country, while remaining fully committed to delivering life-saving assistance to the people of Haiti. The United Nations has authorized the temporary relocation of some internationally recruited personnel from Haiti, while others, who are crisis specialists and humanitarian personnel, will be coming in to help with the operations on the ground.”
5. Wide shot, Dujarric walks away

Storyline

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric today (14 Mar) told reporters in New York that the World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday “was able to provide hot meals to about 13,000 displaced people,” but said “this service in Port-au-Prince might be shut down next week if new funding is not secured.”

Dujarric said, “WFP urgently needs $10 million to be able to sustain this life-saving program. Overall funding this year for the humanitarian response plan is inching up - very slowly but it is inching up - it is now 3.2 per cent funded with about $21.6 million in the bank. Needless to say, much more is needed to meet Haiti’s humanitarian needs for this coming year.”

The spokesperson told reporters that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), “are providing medical assistance via mobile clinics at several sites for displaced people, as well as other key assistance such as water and psychosocial assistance.”
He also said, the United Nations is reconfiguring its presence in the country, “while remaining fully committed to delivering life-saving assistance to the people of Haiti” and “has authorized the temporary relocation of some internationally recruited personnel from Haiti, while others, who are crisis specialists and humanitarian personnel, will be coming in to help with the operations on the ground.”