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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced that they will travel together to the Sahel region in an effort to help tackle the region’s challenges, which, Ban said, “respect no borders and neither should our solutions” UNTV
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STORY: UN / BAN-KIM
TRT: 2.36
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 1 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

1 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walks up to the dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Today, we are here to announce that we will team up once again and travel next week to the Sahel region of Africa.”
5. Med shot, photographer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“First, the crisis in Mali has underscored the need to do more than fight fires in the region. We need to clear away the problems that could ignite conflict and instability. Second, we must take a regional approach. The challenges in the region respect no borders, neither should our solutions.”
7. Wide shot, dais with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on video screen
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group:
“The Secretary-General and I will hear first hand from Sahelian leaders next week. We know their nations suffer from many interrelated problems. Many of these countries have chronically low economic growth which lies behind the urgent need for job creation. The severe impacts from climate change threaten hard won gains in poverty reduction. As the Secretary-General mentioned, volatility in the price and supply of food, now leaves millions at risk of hunger.”
9. Wide shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“All throughout our development projects that good governance and transparency and accountability are key words and key priorities for the United Nations and all the rest of the international community. It is important that the money pledged and invested must be used for the true purpose and principles - with oversight, with accountability and with transparency. ”
11. Wide shot, dais with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on video screen
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group:
“Corruption is quite simply stealing from the poor. That’s how I view it. That’s how this organization, the World Bank Group, has viewed it for a very long time. We have multiple mechanisms in place to ensure that money is not diverted. Every single one of our projects is audited and we have a multi-tiered system in the World Bank and at the country level to prevent corruption.”
13. Med shot, journalist
14. Zoom out, end of press conference

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced today (1 November) they are teaming up for a trip to the Sahel next week to address pressing issues in the vast African region such as pervasive poverty, food insecurity and conflict.

Ban in a joint press conference in New York said the crisis in Mali “has underscored the need to do more than fight fires in the region” and instead “we need to clear away the problems that could ignite conflict and instability.”

He underlined the need for a regional approach, as “the challenges in the region respect no borders, neither should our solutions.”

Earlier this year, Ban and Kim travelled together to Africa’s long troubled Great Lakes region in support of a new peace framework agreed by leaders there. It was the first joint visit by a UN Secretary-General and a President of the World Bank. The new trip seeks to build on joint efforts, foster international support, and spotlight the challenges currently facing the Sahel.

Kim, via video conference, told journalists that together with the Secretary-General, they “will hear first hand from Sahelian leaders.”

Kim said their nations “suffer from many interrelated problems” including “chronically low economic growth which lies behind the urgent need for job creation” and the “severe impacts from climate change” which “threaten hard won gains in poverty reduction.”

Also, he added, “volatility in the price and supply of food, now leaves millions at risk of hunger.”

He stressed that the World Bank’s new approach to the Sahel will entail working side by side with the region’s Governments, the UN and other development partners and will promote greater stability, resilience and sustainable development in the five core countries of the region: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.

Asked about the high levels of corruption in the region and the danger that resources will be diverted, Ban said “good governance and transparency and accountability are key words and key priorities for the United Nations and all the rest of the international community” and added that “it is important that the money pledged and invested must be used for the true purpose and principles - with oversight, with accountability and with transparency.”

Kim said “corruption is quite simply stealing from the poor” and pointed out that the World Bang Group has “multiple mechanisms in place to ensure that money is not diverted”

He noted that “every single one of our projects is audited and we have a multi-tiered system in the World Bank and at the country level to prevent corruption.

The Sahel has suffered three major droughts in less than a decade. More than 11 million people are at risk of hunger and 5 million children under five are at risk of acute malnutrition. In addition, political instability and unconstitutional changes in Governments have had significant economic and social consequences in the region and terrorist acts, as well as organized crime, have threatened the region’s stability.

The region stretches from Mauritania to Eritrea, including Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan, a belt dividing the Sahara desert and the savannahs to the south.

The joint visit will start from Mali and continue to Niger, Burkina Faso and Chad.
Mr. Ban and Mr. Kim will be joined by Mr. Ban’s Special Envoy to the region, Romano Prodi, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, President of the African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka, and Commissioner for Development of the European Union Andris Piebalgs.

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