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STORY: UN / POPULATION DAY ADVANCER
TRT: 1.32
SOURCE: WHO / UNTV / UNMIS / ONUCI
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: FILE
FILE - WHO - SEPTEMBER 2004, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
1. Aerial shot, city view
2. Pan right, shantytown
FILE - UNTV - 2009, YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA
3. Wide shot, traffic in Yogyakarta
FILE - UNTV - 30 APRIL, 17 MAY 2010, JAKARTA
4. Wide shot, Central Jakarta traffic roundabout
5. Wide shot, census workers walking in central Jakarta neighborhood
6. Med shot, census worker Fitri Diansari walking into house
7. Med shot, census worker asking questions
8. Close up, census form
9. Wide shot, census team walking
10. Wide shot, census team interviewing cell-phone retailer
11. Med shot, census team interviewing older man
12. Close up, census worker and homeless women by railroad tracks
13. Close up, census worker talking to homeless young woman under overpass
FILE - UNMIS - 22 APRIL, 2008, ED DAMAZIN, SUDAN
14. Med shot, candle burns
15. Med shot, enumerators writing on census paper
16. Med shot, enumerator with homeless person Hassan Adallah writing down his information
17. Close up, enumerator's hand writing on paper
18. Med shot, Hassan Abdallah and CBS Director while filling his details
19. Close up, census paper
FILE - ONUCI - 4 NOVEMBER 2008, ABIDJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE
20. Various shots, fingerprints being taken on an electronic device
This year World Population Day, marked on 11 July, highlights the importance of data for development. The focus is on the 2010 round of the population and housing census, data analysis for development and United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) lead role in population and development.
Good demographic data is critical for planning schools, health systems and public transportation, for designing policies based on future population projections, for monitoring the effectiveness of service delivery and much more.
According to Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Executive Director of UNFPA, good data is critical for evidence-based policies and programmes for improving people's lives. She noted that while timely and reliable data is routine in richer countries, many resource-constrained developing countries struggle to conduct the censuses and surveys that they need for effective planning.
In 2009, UNFPA supported 77 governments' national population and housing censuses and paved the way for other censuses in 2010. Some 60 countries are collecting data and counting people as part of the 2010 census process.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a statement, said that "access to good data is a component of good governance, transparency and accountability" and helps leaders and policy-makers to make informed decisions about policies and programmes to reduce poverty and hunger, and advance education, health and gender equality.
World Population Day was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.
