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UNDP / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT WRAP
STORY: UNDP / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT WRAP
TRT: 5.40
SOURCE: UNDP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / KIKUYU / LINGALA / SWAHILI / PORTUGUESE / FRENCH
DATELINE: 4 NOVEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
4 NOVEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN HQ
2. Wide shot, crowds in launch or the Human Development Report
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General, United nations:
“Putting people first means tackling poverty, hunger, and disease. That approach is embodied in the MDGs. The HDR was designed to measure results. The MDGs set specific targets for a better world."
4. Various shots, audience
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator saying:
"Among the poorest countries we've seen some of the greatest human development gains. This report shows that the gap in health and education outcomes between developed and developing countries has narrowed significantly over the past four decades even though the income divide with a few notable exceptions has worsened."
FILE / RECENT / ABAETETUBA, BRAZIL
6. Various shots, river boats
7. Various shots, Alcindo Ribeiro Lobato at work in a brick factory
8. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Alcindo Ribeiro Lobato:
“A university was far from reality. Our reality, you know the reality of the people living along the river.”
9. Various shots, fish market
10. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Teresinha de Maria Ribeiro Resident:
“When I started school I was seven. I had to quit when I was twelve; whether I was learning or not.”
11. Various shots, Marineide Ribeiro Lobato cooking
12. Various shots, Lobato family eating
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jenny Klugman , Director of the Human Development Report:
“We see countries for example where twenty, thirty years ago only one or two out of ten kids were able to go to school when they reached four or five years of age. And now, even in the poorest countries of the world, we see that going up to eighty and ninety percent, which is a profound transformation, especially for girls.”
14. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Marineide Ribeiro Lobato:
“Now, here at the school 90% of the children are in the Bolsa Familia program (family stipend) Attendance is better, learning is better. And if the children come to school of course they will learn more.”
15. Various shots, fish market
FILE / KAMBAMULUMA DISTRICT, KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
16. Wide shot, View of Kambamuluma, near Kinshasa
17. Various shots, women carrying water
18. Med shot, people washing
19. Med shot, Alexi working in vegetable garden
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Kitela Alexi resident of Kambamuluma:
“I was in Kisangani town and I ran away due to rebellions.
Questions: Can you go back?
No, as you know when you run away from war tone, there is no way you can go back. We came to re-establish ourselves here.
21. Various shots, Zonga Elisa Alexi’s wife washing cloth
22. SOUNDBITE (Linglala) Zonga Elisa, Alexi’s wife:
“We just live, we don’t know anything, we don’t know where our help will one day come from, we thought that because we cast our votes, things will be better, our husbands will get jobs and our kids will go back to school but unfortunately nothing has changed. No hope for us.”
23. SOUNDBITE (French) Kitela Alexi resident of Kambamuluma:
“No my kids are not in school because I can’t afford their school fees.”
24.Various shots, Alexi’s children
25.Various shots, people fetching water
26.SOUNDBITE (French) Nzalakanda Itela Alexi’s eldest Daughter:
“First, life is difficult because of water. We fetch water with a lot of difficulties. We have to go there, fetch water. It is really difficult.
FILE / RECENT / KEINI ,KENYA
27. Wide shot, Mount Kenya
28. Various shots, trees and fields
29. Wide shot, irrigation of field
30. Various shots, school
31. SOUNDBITE (Kikuyu) Gerald Kingori:
“Life was harder then, there was no money, things are better, people are building wooden houses these days unlike the grass ones we had before”
32. Med shot, Anna Wanjiku, Gereld’s wife peeling potatoes
33. SOUNDBITE (Kikuyu) Anna Wanjiku:
“These days are better because there is progress”
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Jenny Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report:
35. Various shots, Paul Muriithi Kingori feeding cows
36. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Paul Muriithi Kingori:
“Biogas has helped me achieve my aim as a farmer. Things have improved, the money that I used to make form crops such as potatoes, would be used to buy fertilizers. These days I don’t spend anything on fertiliser. It’s improved life a great deal”
37. Various shots, Kingori working in farm
38. Various shots, Ruth Wanjiru Mureithi changing baby nappies
39. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Ruth Wanjiru Mureithi Paul’s wife:
“When I was a child we pretty much went to see traditional doctors, we were given remedies that were not very effective, but now, we have access to health care facilities and our children are treated for specific ailments and that has helped boost their health”
40. Various shots, clinic
41. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Paul Muriithi Kingori:
“I want them to get to university, even when we talk they tell me how they want to be engineers, doctors the vision I have to see them complete their studies will happen”
42. Various shots, Paul with children looking at old photos
The 20th anniversary edition of United Nations (UN) Development Programme’s (UNDP) annual Human Development Report (HDR), launched on Thursday November 4th in New York, shows extraordinary and often overlooked progress in health and education in most developing countries over the past four decades, as measured by the Report’s Human Development Index (HDI).
Though these advances have not been consistent or universal, children in most countries today can look forward to much longer, healthier and more productive lives than those enjoyed by their grandparents.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the report along with UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, who helped devise the HDI for the first HDR in 1990. Ban said that there was a direct link between the Report and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
"Putting people first means tackling poverty, hunger, and disease; that approach is embodied in the MDGs. The HDR was designed to measure results. The MDGs set specific targets for a better world," Ban Ki-Moon said.
UNDP Administrator Helen Clark said that some of greatest gains were in the poorest countries.
“This report shows that the gap in health and education outcomes between developed and developing countries has narrowed significantly over the past four decades even though the income divide with a few notable exceptions has worsened," Clark added.
Brazil, the giant of South America, has experienced a profound transformation over the past 40 years. The country saw a dramatic improvement in educational opportunities in every region of this vast nation.
In 1970 fewer than half of Brazilian children of school age were actually attending school; today that figure is 85%, and rising. Literacy among adults is above 90%; 40 years ago it was just two-thirds.
73 year old Teresinha de Maria Ribeiro, from Abaetetuba, in Northern Brazil, stopped attending school at the age of 12.
“When I started school I was seven. I had to quit when I was twelve. Whether I was learning or not,” Teresinha said.
In contrast, her 53 year old daughter Marineide, finished high school, and works as a teacher. She says that it was difficult for her to continue her studies.
“I realized that I had to keep studying; because I wanted to acquire more knowledge. It was really hard because I had to leave my family,” Marineide said.
The Director of the HDR Office and lead author of the report Jeni Klugman said that we have seen very impressive improvement over the past four decades.
“We see countries for example where twenty, thirty years ago only one or two out of ten kids were able to go to school when they reached four or five years of age. And now, even in the poorest countries of the world, we see that going up to eighty and ninety percent, which is a profound transformation, especially for girls,” Klugman added.
30 year old Alcindo Ribeiro Lobato, Marineide’s youngest son, works three jobs, with hopes to follow his mother’s example and work in education as well.
“Now, here at the school 90% of the children are in the Bolsa Familia program (family stipend) Attendance is better, learning is better and if the children come to school of course they will learn more,” Marineide said.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of just three countries in the world that have gone backwards in HDI terms since 1970 largely due to the consequence of a long history of corrupt governance, AIDS and other diseases, and, most notably, two decades of brutal civil war.
Average incomes plunged by two-thirds in the country over the past 40 years. And in contrast to world trends, historically low life expectancy and school enrolments rose only slightly.
The majority of African nations except the DRC, Zambia and Zimbabwe, have made major Human Development Index gains in the past 40 year.
Alexis and Elisa, who live with their children near Kinshasa, the capital, are survivors of their countries’ long turmoil. Their parents died during the worst of the civil war period in the 1990s.
Alexis worked as a civil servant in Kisangani, but fled in 1997 due to war. He remains unemployed.
Elisa sells bread. None of their children go to school. Living standards have begun to improve since UN peacekeepers helped end open warfare in most of the country over the past decade, but the DRC remains one of Africa’s and the world’s greatest development challenges.
And in Kenya rural communities remain poor compared to world standards, but life is better for most small farmers now, than it was 40 years ago. New irrigation systems have improved crop yields, better roads and communications have opened wider market possibilities, and new schools offer opportunities to children in these rural communities that their parents never had.
The Murithi family who own a small farm in the Keini district near Mount Kenya, have benefited sees itself as a beneficiary of these changes. The father, 42 year old Paul Murithi Kingori supports the family with his crop earnings.
His parents grandparents Gerald and Anna Kingori say that life is better for there grandchildren.
“Life was harder then, there was no money, things are better, people are building wooden houses these days unlike the grass ones we had before,” said Kingori recalling his youth.
Paul Murithi Kingori introduced a small biogas facility to the farm and this he says has greatly improved there lives.
“Biogas has helped me achieve my aim as a farmer. Things have improved, the money that I used to make form crops such as potatoes, would be used to buy fertilizers. These days I don’t spend anything on fertilizer, its improved life a great deal,” said Paul Muriithi Kingori.
His wife 35 year old wife Ruth Wanjiru Mureithi, says that she had no access to health clinics or schools as a child, in contrast to the facilities for young people in their community today.
“When I was a child we pretty much went to see traditional doctors, we were given remedies that were not very effective. But now, we have access to health care facilities and our children are treated for specific ailments and that has helped boost their health,” said Ruth Wanjiru Mureithi
Today her children attend local schools and aspire to continue to university, a realistic dream for many academically minded young Kenyans.
“I want them to get to university, even when we talk they tell me how they want to be engineers, doctors. The vision I have to see them complete their studies will happen.” Paul Muriithi Kingori said.
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