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DPRK / HUMANITARIAN AID
STORY: DPRK / HUMANITARIAN AID
TRT: 4.20
SOURCE: UNTV / WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 15 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – WFP - 19 AUGUST 2012, ANJU, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
1. Various shots, people building barricades with mud from flooded river
15 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghulam Isaczai, United Nations Resident Coordinator:
"What we are doing right now is to relaunch that same appeal to bring attention to the fact that the funding is still an urgent issue particularly when the political environment is very difficult so we need to remind and inform that the member states, the donors that there is a humanitarian need that should not be influenced by political imperatives.”
FILE – WFP - 19 AUGUST 2012, ANJU, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
3. Various shots, people building barricades with mud from flooded river
15 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghulam Isaczai, United Nations Resident Coordinator:
“We cannot deny the fact that given the recent events, the lack of progress on the political front does influence donors behaviour in terms of funding.”
20 AUGUST 2012, WONSAN, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
5. Various shots, making biscuits at the former Munchon Biscuit Factory
6. Various shots, cookies being baked
6. Med shot, children eating
15 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghulam Isaczai, United Nations Resident Coordinator:
“It does affect, for instance the World Food Program has to stop its biscuits factories, five of them because they could not provide the material, the ingredients such as milk, oil and ghee and other to basically to produce the biscuits which affects a lot of children, school going children and these are very rich in protein and other nutritional terms.”
19 AUGUST 2012, ANJU, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
8. Pan right, from man holding dry corn to dry corn field
15 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghulam Isaczai, United Nations Resident Coordinator:
“We need to expand the diversity of farming to include soy beans, protein rich agriculture products and produce vegetables, fruits in order to improve the nutrition value of their food chain and food supply.”
20 AUGUST 2012, WONSAN, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
8. Wide shot, exterior Wonsan Paediatric Hospital
9. Various shots, mothers with malnourished babies in clinic
15 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghulam Isaczai, United Nations Resident Coordinator:
“For us to maintain those gains in those areas and to further improve the situation we need to continue to provide humanitarian assistance because stunting is a major problem, I mean 28 percent is still a big number and is very visible on the streets of the country.”
20 AUGUST 2012, WONSAN, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
11. Various shots, children at Wonsan Kindergarten receiving biscuits
12. Various shots, children at Wonsan Kindergarten playing
15 AUGUST 2013, NEW YORK CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghulam Isaczai, United Nations Resident Coordinator:
“By providing funding for humanitarian purposes we are sending a very strong message to the Korean public that the world cares about them and that we are not going to mix it to agenda and I think that is very important because the populations are isolated. This is a very visible concrete evidence and demonstration of UN support and world support if they continue to do it and the public will see that the population, especially the most vulnerable people.”
20 AUGUST 2012, WONSAN, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
14. Various shots, DPRK landscape
The United Nations (UN) updated its plans today (15 August) to address critical humanitarian needs in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), calling for (USD)$98 million be used for food and agricultural support, health and nutrition services and water and sanitation interventions for the remainder of the year.
The humanitarian programmes being implemented by five UN agencies in DPRK remain drastically underfunded. Of the overall funding requirement of (USD)$150 million for 2013, (USD)$98 million is still urgently needed.
UN Resident Coordinator in the DPRK Ghulam Isaczai said that funding was an “urgent issue” and that it was important to remind and inform member states and donors that there is a humanitarian need that should not be influenced by political imperatives.
The humanitarian community in the DPRK has consistently argued that the provision of support should be based on humanitarian needs and not on political and security considerations, and that millions of people will continue to suffer without international assistance.
According to the United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) some 16 million people in the DPRK currently remain chronically food insecure and highly vulnerable to food production gaps. Over the past decade, the UN and its partners have seen a dramatic reduction in donor support to the country.
Isaczai said that the lack of funding had resulted in five of the World Food Program (WFP) biscuit factories to close. WFP could not provide ingredients such as milk, oil and ghee to produce the biscuits.
Most of the agriculture in the DPRK is made up of rice and corn, Isaczai said that the diversity of farming needs to be expanded to protein rich agriculture products like soy beans, vegetables and fruits in order to improve the nutrition value.
Chronic under-nutrition continues to be a public health problem in the country and is a major underlying cause of maternal and child mortality.
Last year's national nutrition survey malnutrition rates were lower than other years, but continue to be of "great concern", with a stunting rate among children under five at 27.9 per cent and 4 percent who are acutely malnourished.
Isaczai said that by relaunching the donor appeal, “we are sending a very strong message to the Korean public that the world cares about them and that we are not going to mix it to an agenda.”
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