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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / RAPID RESPONSE MECHANISM
TRT: 2:16
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: FILE
UNICEF - 18 AUGUST 2014, KIECH KUON, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Med shot, WFP plane dropping sacks of relief food
2. Wide shot, sacks falling on the ground
3. Wide shot, field with sacks, people coming
WFP - 2 APRIL 2014, KULE REFUGEE CAMP, GAMBELLA, ETHIOPIA
4. Wide shot, tents
5. Med shot, women with babies
6. Tracking shot, refugees arriving
UNICEF - 23-25 JULY 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
7. Wide shot, mothers with their children in treatment center
8. Med shot, mother holding baby being screened for severe acute malnutrition
UNICEF - 29 JULY 2014, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
9. Med shot, women walking with water containers on their heads
10. Tracking, women and children walking to the registration area
11. Wide shot, people walking on dirt road
UNICEF - 23-25 JULY 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
12. Med shot, muddy road with people in a distance
13. Med shot, UN peacekeepers in front of tank
WFP – DATE UNKNOWN, KIECH KUON, SOUTH SUDAN
14. Wide shot, helicopter landing in Kiech Kuon
15. Med shot, luggage inside the helicopter
16. Med shot, UNICEF team receiving supply documents from the pilot
17. Med shot, villagers helping to unload UNICEF nutrition and WASH supplies from helicopter
18. Various shots, RRM team walking to the registration area carrying chairs and tables
19. Wide shot, women and children walking to the registration area
20. Med shot, controller talking on radio
UNICEF - 23-25 JULY 2014, MALAKAL, SOUTH SUDAN
21. Wide shot, UN POC camp through barbed wire
22. Wide shot, heavy rain
UNICEF - 29 JULY 2014, BENTIU, SOUTH SUDAN
23. Wide shot, WFP Helicopter about to take off
WFP – 1 APRIL 2014, NYAL, SOUTH SUDAN
24. Wide shot, areal of flooding
25. Various shots, RRM team meeting the village leaders
26. Wide shot, women and children queuing
27. Wide shot, people standing in one long queue
28. Close up,UNICEF health Specialist preparing a measles vaccine
29. Various shots, children receiving two drops of polio vaccine
30. Med shot, boxes being off loaded from helicopter
31. Wide shot, children seated presentation how prevent cholera
32. Close up, child being screened for severe acute malnutrition
33. Med shot, men repairing the only functional bore in the area
34. Close up, men repairing the only functional bore in the area
35. Med shot, women and their children during infant and young child feeding lesson
36. Wide shot, children walking home with WASH materials
37. Close up, children being vaccinated against polio
38. Pan right, from breast feeding materials to mother
39. Med shot, children being taught how to wash their hands using soap or ash
40. Tilt down, woman carrying a child sleeping in a handmade Moses basket
UNICEF - 18 AUGUST 2014, KIECH KUON, SOUTH SUDAN
41. Various shots, food distribution
WFP – 1 APRIL 2014, NYAL, SOUTH SUDAN
42. Wide shot, people carrying sacks of sorghum
43. Med shot, young woman holding baby
44. Close up, woman holding baby
UNICEF and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are stepping up joint missions to reach desperate people in remote areas of South Sudan where the number of children at risk of death from malnutrition-related causes has increased dramatically.
Across the country, an integrated Rapid Response Mechanism is in place so that teams of emergency workers and supplies can fly into remote areas to provide urgent humanitarian aid to people who have had little or no access to humanitarian assistance.
The situation is most dire in the three conflict-affected states of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile where data indicates as much as 60 to 75 percent of the population is severely food-insecure.
An estimated 235,000 children under the age of 5 will require treatment for severe acute malnutrition this year; twice as many as last year. Furthermore, some 675,000 children will require treatment for moderate severe acute malnutrition.
So far, due to the challenging conditions, the humanitarian community has only been able to reach about 10 per cent of these children with the required treatment.
Teams deployed to remote locations register people and supply life-saving food assistance, usually via air-drops and airlifts. The teams treat children suffering from malnutrition, provide water, sanitation and hygiene supplies and services, identify children who have become separated from their families and provide basic education services where possible.
Furthermore, specialty nutrition supplements are provided to children under 5 who are not yet malnourished, in order to prevent them from becoming so.
To date, there have been joint missions to 15 locations, reaching more than 200,000 people, including 70,000 children under 5. In addition WFP teams have reached a further 14 locations, helping approximately 350,000 more people. Once access to these locations is open, partners are often able to provide ongoing assistance.
WFP initiated the innovative Rapid Response Mechanism missions in January, with UNICEF and other agencies joining in March to help increase capacity and provide a more complete package of assistance. Teams are currently operating around Koch and Nihaldu in Unity State reaching 58,700 people who have not previously had access to any form of assistance.
The appalling condition of people on arrival in Bentiu triggered joint assessment missions to find the areas from where they originated. Initial reports from the teams indicate extremely high levels of malnutrition among children under 5. Further immediate missions are planned for other targeted areas in Unity State. And then over the coming months UNICEF, WFP and partners will undertake additional missions to cover 30 hard-to-reach sites every month in Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile.
The conflict in South Sudan has displaced some 1.5 million people from their homes. Over 1.1 million – more than half of them children – are living in makeshift shelters within South Sudan with limited or no access to humanitarian assistance. Four million people are facing emergency levels of food insecurity and UNICEF warns that 50,000 children under 5 are likely to die this year unless they can be reached with treatment for severe acute malnutrition. This crisis has also severely impacted humanitarian access as well as health and water and sanitation services.
