UNDP / MARK BOWDEN

Mark Bowden, the UNDP Resident Representative for Somalia says that the United Nations will need to be dealing with the emergency in the Horn of Africa region "at least till next July." UNDP

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:01
• Production Date: 24 September 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; NUTRITION; HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS
• MAMS Id: U110924b

Description

STORY: UNDP / MARK BOWDEN
TRT: 1.01
SOURCE: UNDP / WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE

DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, Mark Bowden at his office
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Bowden, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, UNDP Resident Representative for Somalia:
“This is not a short term crisis. We need to be there dealing with the emergency at least till next July but also there has to be better long term development support across the board. There are development opportunities that can help to address the recurrent droughts that the region is facing and its time to really invest solidly in them to stop Africa and the Horn of Africa getting through this continued cycle of drought.”

FILE / WFP / 18 SEPTEMBER 2011, HAMMER JABJAB DISTRICT, CENTRAL MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

3. Wide shot, women and children waiting to enter nutrition clinic
4. Med shot, baby being weighed

18 SEPTEMBER 2011, WABERI DISTRICT, CENTRAL MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

5. Various shots, hot meals distribution

18 SEPTEMBER 2011, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

10. Various shots, unloading of high energy biscuits and supplementary plumpy nut at Mogadishu Port
11. Various shots, peanut based nutritional product at WFP warehouse

Storyline

Mark Bowden, the United Nations (UN) Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, and the UN Development Program’s (UNDP) Resident Representative for Somalia commenting on the famine and drought situation in the Horn of Africa said yesterday (23 September) that the present situation was “not a short term crisis”. And that the organization needs to be in the region dealing with the emergency “at least till next July”. Bowden added that there also has to be a better long term development support across the board.

He also said that there were development opportunities that could help to address the recurrent droughts that the region was facing “and its time to really invest solidly in them to stop Africa and the Horn of Africa getting through this continued cycle of drought”, Bowden said.