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UNICEF emergency funding appeal 2024 - 15 December 2023
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STORY: Emergency Funding Appeal 2024 - UNICEF
TRT: 2:25”
SOURCE: UNTV CH
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
ASPECT RATIO: 16:9
DATELINE: 15 December 2023 - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
SHOTLIST
- Exterior wide shot: UN building with UN flag, UN Geneva.
- Medium shot, press briefing room with moderator UN Geneva
- SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director: “Earlier this week, UNICEF launched the 9.3 billion emergency funding appeal to reach at least 94 million children in 155 countries. Yet at a time where humanitarian needs and protection needs have never been greater, we are approaching 2024, facing an increasingly bleak funding forecast. Flexible funding, which allows us to respond that speed, scale and nimbleness is shrinking, restricting our ability to respond quickly.”
- Cutaway: Wide shot, press briefing room with journalists, UN Geneva
- SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) – Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director: “At a time when humanitarian protection needs have never been greater, we are concerned that our ability to meet these needs is going to come under increasing strain. Among the most critically underfunded emergencies right now, we have Sudan, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Haiti, Ethiopia, Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Bangladesh.”
- Cutaway: Medium shot, press briefing room with spokesperson and speaker on podium and journalists, UN Geneva
- SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) - Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director: “What we're seeing is increased need in a fiscally tight space affected by, you know, increasing the instability because of conflict i climate, the overhang of COVID and the economic consequences of COVID, if you will. It's a triple threat that children around the world are facing.”
- Cutaway: Medium shot, journalists listening, UN Geneva
- SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) - Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director: “Immunization continues to be available, that primary health care continues to function, that children have access to treatment against severe acute malnutrition, and that some of the basics around child protection, psycho-social support, mental health, addressing grave violations against children, recruitment of children by armed groups, as well as education, which is a life saving intervention in emergencies, that all those continue to exist.
- Cutaway: Medium shot, camerawomen looking at their cell phones, UN Geneva
- Cutaway: Wide shot, press briefing room with journalists and camera women, UN Geneva
- Cutaway: Medium shot, journalists listening, UN Geneva
- Cutaway: close up, journalists listening, UN Geneva
Teleprompter
Earlier this week, UNICEF launched a 9.3 billion emergency funding appeal to reach
at least 94 million Children in 155 countries.
Yet at a time where humanitarian and protection needs have never been greater,
we are approaching 2024 facing an increasingly bleak funding
forecast.
Flexible funding, which allows us to respond at speed, scale and nimbleness,
uh, is shrinking, restricting our ability to respond quickly
at a time when humanitarian protection needs have never been greater.
We are concerned that our ability to meet
these needs is going to come under increasing strain
among the most critically underfunded emergencies.
Right now we have Sudan, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar,
Haiti, Ethiopia, Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Bangladesh.
What we're seeing is increased need,
uh, in a fiscally tight space,
uh, affected, uh, by, uh, you know, increasing, uh,
the instability because of conflict and climate
Uh, the the overhang of covid.
Uh, and, uh, the economic consequences of covid, if you will.
It's a It's a triple threat that, uh, Children around the world,
uh, are facing
immunisation.
Uh, continues to be, uh, available that primary health care continues to function,
Uh, that Children have access to treatment against severe acute malnutrition.
Um, and that, uh, some of the basics,
uh, around child protection, psychosocial support, uh, mental health.
Uh uh, uh.
Addressing grave violations against Children recruitment, uh,
of of Children by armed groups?
Um, uh, A as well as, uh, education, which is a life saving, uh,
intervention and emergency that all those continue,
uh, to exist.