UN / CASH FOR WORK

Briefing on the cash-for-work program, assistant administrator for UNDP Jordan Ryan says that 20 million cubic yards of rubble needs to be removed from Port-au-Prince. UNTV / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:06
• Production Date: 4 February 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; DEVELOPMENT; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100204c

Description

STORY: UN / CASH-FOR-WORK
TRT: 2:06
SOURCE: UNTV/ FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 4 FEBRUARY 2010, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

4 FEBRUARY 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Med shot, reporters listening
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jordan Ryan, Assistant Administrator and Director for the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“First phase really emphasizes on the clearing rubble. According to USAID preliminary estimates indicate presence of up to 20 million cubic yards of rubble to be removed from Port-au-Prince alone, and so in response of cleaning roads, if you have roads open, obviously humanitarian supplies can get through, if roads are open, public infrastructures cleared, you have an opportunity of having people back to work.”
5. Wide shot, over the shoulder of Ryan
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jordan Ryan, Assistant Administrator and Director for the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“Those types of activities in an early recovery programme they can reduce social tension and to the extent that it provides the ability with the learning process may be not in first few days, but when you move into beginning to tie to vocational training cash-for-work you have an opportunity for people to have new skills that would come from those programmes.”
7. Wide shot, journalists listening
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jordan Ryan, Assistant Administrator and Director for the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“I think the importance of targeting women is both with food distribution as we found in Haiti and elsewhere often when they have cash in their pockets it goes to helping their children, their family members, and so emphasis of building solidarity by engaging women from the very out start of reconstruction something very important building back better.”

FILE – 24 JANUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

9. Various shots, pole clearing rubble as part of the UNDP Cash-for-Work programme

FILE – 22 JANUARY 2010, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

10. Wide, crane clearing rubble

Storyline

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said today that according to preliminary estimates, up to 20 million cubic yards of rubble needs to be removed from Port-au-Prince.

Speaking to reporters at headquarters in New York, the director for UNDP’s bureau for crisis prevention and recovery Jordan Ryan said that only after the removal of the rubble which is part of the UNDP’s Cash-for-Work programme, will Haitians move to the rehabilitation of essential social infrastructure, such as street repairs and electricity.

He said that those types of activities in an early recovery programme can reduce social tension, adding it would also provide an opportunity for people to learn new skills that would come from these programmes.

The project gives priority to female-headed households, particularly those with destroyed housing and those with deceased family members.

The Cash-for-Work programme was launched two weeks ago with the intention of hiring Haitians on a day-to-day basis to help clear rubble and clean the streets. Currently the programme employs Haitians at the legal minimum wage of 150 gourdes or $4, for half a day’s labour.