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UN / MDG MATERNAL SANITATION WRAP
STORY: UN / MDG MATERNAL / SANITATION WRAP
TRT: 4.00
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: NEW YORK CITY, USA 21-22 SEPTEMBER 2010
NEW YORK, 22 SEPTEMBER 2010
1. Various shots, UN panel on water and sanitation
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, Chair, UN Advisory Board:
“We urge all countries to join us to make sustainable sanitation five year drive to 2015 an international effort and a global success.”
3. Various shot, UN panel on water and sanitation
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Otero, US Under Secretary of State:
“Our progress is too slow. As we often say in the United States, we have the technology, we have the knowhow. This is not rocket science.”
5. Various shots, UN panel on water and sanitation
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“A few weeks ago I went to Pakistan and there I saw with devastating clarity what the real stakes are in people’s lives. Surrounded by the floodwaters, children had almost no clean water to drink. What I did see was everywhere fear. Fear was rampant, fear of cholera and dysentery, diarrhea.”
7. Various shots, UN panel on water and sanitation
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
“Despite the critical role of sanitation, water and hygiene, MDG 7 play in enhancing progress in all other areas in Africa, the sector is under discussed ,under prioritized and therefore under resourced.”
NEW YORK, 21 SEPTEMBER 2010
9. Various shots, UN panel on education
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. K.C.S Malefho, Permanent Secretary, Botswana Ministry of Health:
“Botswana Government had a very simple understanding that it would be pointless to save babies and let their mothers die. So our program for the prevention of mother-child transmission was from the beginning linked to the safe motherhood programmes.”
NEW YORK, 22 SEPTEMBER 2010
11. Various shots, UN panel on education
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, Qatar Found for Education, Science and Development:
“The other MDGs cannot be met unless education for all girls is given top priority across all regions including those torn by natural disasters and brutal conflict.”
13. Various, UN panel on education
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Rudd, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs:
“For these reasons in Australia we have said for the next five years we will make a predictable commitment of five billion dollars purely for education initiatives around the world.”
15. Various shots, UN panel on education
At a high level UN breakfast, at the Millenium Development Goal Summit the Crown Prince of the Netherlands led the call to save millions of people whose lives are in danger because they don’t have clean water and sanitation.
SOUNDBITE (English) Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, Chair, UN Advisory Board:
“We urge all countries to join us to make sustainable sanitation five year drive to 2015 an international effort and a global success.”
Although it is key to achieving all the MDGs, funding for water and sanitation receives the lowest priority of all the social sectors.
SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Otero, US Under Secretary of State:
“Our progress is too slow. As we often say in the United States, we have the technology, we have the knowhow. This is not rocket science.”
The lack of clean water shows most cruelly in Africa, where diarrhea is the number one killer of children under five.
And UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake described how extreme weather emergencies are making the need even more urgent worldwide.
SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, UNICEF Executive Director:
“A few weeks ago I went to Pakistan and there I saw with devastating clarity what the real stakes are in people’s lives. Surrounded by the floodwaters, children had almost no clean water to drink. What I did see was everywhere fear. Fear was rampant, fear of cholera and dysentery, diarrhea.”
African nations asked for support for their own efforts to make dramatic change in the next five years.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Liberia:
“Despite the critical role of sanitation, water and hygiene, MDG 7 play in enhancing progress in all other areas in Africa, the sector is under discussed ,under prioritized and therefore under resourced.
Maternal mortality is another MDG that is not making sufficient progress—and although sub Saharan Africa and south Asia are bearing the brunt of this tragedy countries like Botswana are showing that concentrating on the health of both mothers and babies can have dramatic results in fighting AIDS.
SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. K.C.S Malefho, Permanent Secretary Botswana Ministry of Health:
“Botswana Government had a very simple understanding that it would be pointless to save babies and let their mothers die. So our program for the prevention of mother-child transmission was from the beginning linked to the safe motherhood programs.”
As 2015 grows closer, UNICEF and its sister UN agencies are concentrating on the poorest as the most effective way to prevent more unnecessary deaths of mothers and children.
Education is also bedrock issue for the MDGs—and a distinguished panel looked at ways to extend this basic right to all children—especially in emergencies
SOUNDBITE (English) Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned Qatar Found for Education, Science and Development:
“The other MDGs cannot be met unless education for all girls is given top priority across all regions including those torn by natural disasters and brutal conflict.”
Panellists stressed that consistent and predictable funding is key to universal education.
SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Rudd, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs:
“For these reasons in Australia we have said for the next five years we will make a predictable commitment of five billion dollars purely for education initiatives around the world.”
Participation urged governments to give more priority to education, particularly to serving the needs of the most vulnerable.
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