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ZOELLICK / HORN OF AFRICA
STORY: ZOELLICK / HORN OF AFRICA
TRT: 3:06
SOURCE: WORLD BANK / OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 JULY 2011, WASHINGTON, DC / RECENT
RECENT – OCHA - DOLO CAMP, ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA BORDER
1. Tilt down, from mother to child walking in desert like area
2. Wide shot, child scrapping empty pot for food
3. Wide shot, Mark Bowden with refugees
4. Med shot, refugees on the go
WORLD BANK - 25 JULY 2011, WASHINGTON, DC
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank:
"We have been able to move promptly with over 500 million dollars of support, some 12 million we hope to be able to devote to immediate needs, working with the FAO, the Food Agricultural Organization and the UN that has some ongoing programs in Somalia including in some of the areas that have been hard to reach. But equally important to the short-term is the need to be able to build medium and long term support which is what the Bank does with its development efforts.”
RECENT - WFP - 23 JULY 2011, WAJIR, DADAAB, KENYA
6. Various shots, mothers with emaciated children at Giz Hospital in Dadaab
WORLD BANK - 25 JULY 2011, WASHINGTON, DC
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank:
“The good news is that we can put some additional programs in countries such as Ethiopia and Kenya and Djibouti where we already have some basic safety net programs. But also to try to make sure there is an ongoing basis for agricultural production, to help with livestock, overtime to be able to help with more climate resistant seeds, and irrigation support. Because while the understandable focus today is on the humanitarian side, we want to be able to help people take care of themselves overtime. And so we can support the humanitarian agencies by trying to build the infrastructure for agriculture for some of the areas that have been hard hit.”
RECENT - WFP - 23 JULY 2011, WAJIR, KENYA
8. Various shots, carcasses of cows and goats (herders have lost 50 % of their livestock)
WORLD BANK - 25 JULY 2011, WASHINGTON, DC
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Zoellick, President, World Bank:
“The estimates are that it is the worst crisis in the horn of Africa in some 60 years. And we have at least 12 million people at risk. And the danger in these situations, as people move across borders, they can destabilize countries that are already under threat. So the more we on the development side can work with people on the humanitarian side so that we have a combined effort to try help people maintain their livestock, add to some of their ability to keep crops growing if they lose their seed to be able to plant for the next year so that a humanitarian crisis doesn't become a perpetual crisis.”
RECENT – UNHCR - 18 JULY 2011, GALKAYO, SOMALIA
10. Various shots, settlement in Galkayo, Somalia
11. Various shots, woman making makeshift shelter
World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick announced on Monday (25 July) that the World Bank will provide $500 million to assist drought victims in addition to $12 million in immediate assistance for those hardest hit by the crisis.
Immediate relief is the first priority but Zoellick noted that long term solutions
for economic recovery and drought resilience are key so “that a humanitarian crisis doesn't become a perpetual crisis.”
More than 11 million people in the region have been hit by one of the worst droughts in 60 years, resulting in widespread hunger, deaths, and the loss of subsistence crops and livestock. Rising food prices and deteriorating livestock prices have exacerbated the situation, and the United Nations (UN) is warning of worsening conditions in the coming months.
The International Development Association (IDA) which serves as the World Bank's Fund for the Poorest, and the donor-funded Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) are making these funds available with more than $500 million coming from restructuring of existing projects and immediate reallocation and fast track processing of new projects, including with funding from IDA's new Crisis Response Window, subject to approval by the Board of Executive Directors.
Another $12 million will be immediately available in GFDRR financing to rehabilitate rural livelihoods; build drought resilience; assist farmers to resume planting in time for the next harvest through cash transfers, seeds, fertilizer, and farming tools. In Somalia, the support program will be implemented building on previous rapid response operations and partnership with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and on their presence and ability to deliver in Somalia’s most affected areas, where circumstances permit.
The GFDRR funds are also immediately available to support regional drought resilience planning based on a regional needs assessment and developing regional capacity in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.
Following decades of recurring droughts in the Horn of Africa, several World Bank-financed projects have established contingency and risk financing mechanisms that will be used to immediately scale up response to drought affected communities.
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