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STORY: GA / MDGs WRAP
TRT: 2.45
SOURCE: UNTV / UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
23 SEPTEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
3. Med shot, dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“Success in many areas and many countries is within reach. Poverty has plummeted, health has begun to improve and literacy has soared. What first seemed fanciful and naïve to some has become achievable. Clearly our progress remains incomplete and many MDG targets are yet to be met.”
5. Wide shot, dais
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Group President:
“Much of the low-hanging fruit has been harvested. What remains are the toughest challenges. The inclusion of women, minorities groups traditionally excluded, promoting effective governance, establishing peace and stability, achieving sustainable growth and implementing cross-sector solutions, such as the connections between agriculture, water and nutrition that are so important to progress. The challenge before us remains large. It’s larger than the capabilities of any single institution. It goes beyond the capacity of most governments alone. We need productive partnerships among governments, the private sector and civil society to accelerate progress.”
7. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council
8. Med shot, dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“Achieving MDG 5 targets A and B is not expensive, especially compared to many other development commitments, but it requires far more resources than are currently available. It is one of the best investments we can make, with almost incalculable returns. We can save hundreds of thousands of lives every year and we can spare lasting injury and disability for as many as 17,000,000 women and adolescent girls.”
FILE – UNICEF - 26 AUGUST – 31 AUGUST 2013, OKURA, ETHIOPIA
10. Close up, baby at health post
11. Wide shot, women at health post
12. Wide shot, health worker talking to patient
FILE – UNICEF - 7–12 April 2013, CHIVI DISTRICT, MASVINGO PROVINCE, ZIMBABWE
13. Wide shot, of mother tending to baby
FILE – UNICEF - 2 SEPTEMBER 2013, BANGLADESH
14. Wide shot, operating room
15. Med shot, operating room
16. Med shot, woman getting inoculated
With just over 800 days left to achieve the most ambitious anti-poverty programme the world has ever seen, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gathered today at UN Headquarters heads of State and representatives of business, civil society and philanthropic organizations to fuel a final push to propel the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) across the finishing line.
Ban said “success in many areas and many countries is within reach” noting that “poverty has plummeted, health has begun to improve and literacy has soared.”
Nevertheless, he acknowledged that progress remains incomplete in reaching the eight Goals agreed by world leaders at a UN summit in 2000, which aim to slash extreme poverty and hunger, ensure access to universal health care and education, achieve gender equality, cut maternal and child mortality, secure environmental stability, reduce HIV/AIDS and forge a global partnership for development, all by the end of 2015.
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim told the meeting that “much of the low-hanging fruit has been harvested” but “what remains are the toughest challenges.”
Kim said the challenge is “larger than the capabilities of any single institution” and “goes beyond the capacity of most governments alone.”
He stressed that “we need productive partnerships among governments, the private sector and civil society to accelerate progress.”
Kim announced that the Bank Group projects at least $700 million in financing through the end of 2015 to help developing countries reach the MDGs on women’s and children’s health, with new funding coming from the International Development Association (IDA), the Bank Group’s fund for the poorest countries to enable a national scale-up of successful pilot reproductive, maternal, and child health projects.
Another major new commitment came from the IKEA Foundation, the Swedish furniture, home appliances and accessories giant with $80 million pledges over the next five years to fund UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) programmes in India to improve child survival, education and protection.
Ban later spoke at another high-level meeting to review progress in the achievement of MDG 5, which deals with improving maternal health.
The Secretary-General said more resources are required but it is “one of the best investments we can make, with almost incalculable returns.”
He said “we can save hundreds of thousands of lives every year and we can spare lasting injury and disability for as many as 17,000,000 women and adolescent girls.”
Today’s meetings come ahead of a General Assembly Special Event on Wednesday to consider what remains to be done to meet the 2015 MDG deadline.
The events pave the way for the UN, Governments, civil society, the private sector and citizens everywhere to forge a sustainable development agenda beyond 2015 that builds on the successes and lessons of the MDGs.