New York/Cape Town, South Africa, 14 June 2010—To kick-off the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassadors, Didier Drogba and Zinedine Zidane, launched an anti-poverty TV spot appealing for the world to live up to the challenge and join the team that will beat poverty. “There can be no spectators in the fight against poverty,” said Chelsea striker Drogba, and Cote d’Ivoire national team captain. “We all need to be on the pitch to improve the lives of millions of poor people in this world.”

The multilingual public service announcement will be broadcast during the tournament in South Africa and aims to bolster efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight internationally-agreed targets which aim to reduce poverty, hunger, maternal and child deaths, disease, inadequate shelter and gender inequality by 2015.

“The World Cup brings people around the globe together to support their national teams, and we need the same kind of passion to end poverty and hunger,” said Zidane, former French national team captain. “The 2015 target for the Millennium Development Goals is a few years away, so the time to make a difference is now.”

Zidane and Drogba’s video can be viewed on UNDP’s new football site, www.kickoutpoverty.org, which gives people the opportunity to join the fight against poverty. This spot was produced by UNDP with the creative vision of Mark Titus at August Island Pictures in Seattle, USA. All production costs were covered pro-bono thanks to August Island Pictures and Freestudios in Geneva.

Official FIFA Partner, Sony Corporation, will be assisting with the broadcasting of the public service announcement. The new anti-poverty website was produced pro-bono for UNDP by the HUGE digital agency in New York, USA. Other key partners include Major League Soccer USA, Seattle Sounders Football Club and the UN Foundation.

UNDP would also like to recognise the time and effort contributed by the following: Bad Animals, Blue Goose Productions, Colehour + Cohen, Hotel Intercontinental Geneva, Hotel du Golf Sonnenmoser, Jason Brown Worldwide, Lenz Erwin Design, Light Press, PegLeg Pictures, Pump Audio, and Red Jet Films,

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UNDP - Haiti Conference Port au Prince, Haiti / UN, New York Recent (9 March 10) / 30 March 10
Natural with English and Creole
Source: UNDP
Restrictions: None
3.15 minutes

SHOTLIST: Port au Prince, Haiti (March 9, 2010) (UNDP - ACCESS ALL)
. Various of collapsed building with children.
2. Ministry of Justice building destroyed and close-up paper on Ministry of Justice letterhead.
3. Various of destruction, collapsed buildings New York (March 30, 2010) (UNDP - ACCESS ALL)
4. Jordan Ryan, UNDP Assistant Administrator, at work in his office
5. Soundbite: (Englsih) Jordan Ryan, UNDP Assistant Administrator saying "The donor conference on the 31st of March, co-hosted by the United Nations and the United States, will offer an opportunity for the government of Haiti to present its vision of the future in light of the earthquake, specially focused on the reconstruction needs. This conference is a pledging conference so what we hope to achieve is that donors and member states, all of whom have been invited, will actually pledge the resources that are needed to kick start the recovery in Haiti" Port au Prince, Haiti (March 9, 2010) (undp - ACCESS ALL)
6. Various shots of UNDP Cash-For-Work program in St. Martin, Port-au-Prince
7. Soundbite: (Creole) Marisol Léveillé, resident of St. Martin, Port-au-Prince saying: "With the money from Cash-for-Work I bought my children shoes since they were barefoot."
8. Marisol working in the Cash-For-Work program
9. Soundbite: (Creole) Marisol Léveillé "I bought food and some to save for later. When I can earn more money, I'll save it and try to make it grow to see if I can go back to my small business, since it’s my only source of income.";
10. Roger Guarda , UNDP Haiti Senior Country Director at work in his office
11. Roger Guarda, UNDP Haiti Senior Country Director saying "Little by little we're looking to making this more of a capacity-building program where people will learn skills, we will move into creating jobs that will be permanent so people can learn skills and have more permanent income, and making it more of a real development tool really."
12. Various shots market
13. Various shots Internally displaced people camp

Story: To boost support for Haiti's long-term recovery after the devastating Earthquake that hit the Caribbean country on Jan 12th, hundreds of government officials from 136 countries will take part of the International Donors' Conference at the UN Headquarters in New York on March 31st.

Jordan Ryan, UNDP Assistant Administrator said that the conference needs to raise more then 3 billion dollars "The donor conference on the 31st of March, co-hosted by the United Nations and the United States, will offer an opportunity for the government of Haiti to present its vision of the future in light of the earthquake, specially focused on the reconstruction needs. This conference is a pledging conference so what we hope to achieve is that donors and member states, all of whom have been invited, will actually pledge the resources that are needed to kick start the recovery in Haiti." Ryan said Following the humanitarian assistance provided by over 140 donors so far, the Conference Towards a New Future in Haiti will focus on pledges of assistance for the country's effective recovery and sustainable development.

The people and Government of Haiti have a vision for Haiti's future and a plan to make it a reality. They will lead the development of Haiti tomorrow. The goal of the donor conference is to secure the foundation for Haiti's recovery and reconstruction through pledges from all sources - public, private, non-governmental and multilateral institutions - to meet the $3.8 billion required over the next two years.

Eight days after the strongest earthquake in 200 years hit Haiti, UNDP started a cash-for-work programme to jumpstart the local economy - injecting urgently needed cash and helping small businesses and trade resume activity.

Working with the Haitian National Government, local municipalities and civil society organizations, the initiative provides short-term jobs to Haitians to clear rubble and rehabilitate essential social infrastructures, such as street repairs and electricity.

The programme empowers affected populations, helping them earn a living and cover for the basic necessities of their families. Currently, 40 per cent of the workers are women.

Marisol Léveillé a resident of one of the poorest Neighborhoods in Port au Prince said that she lost everything in the earthquake. "I bought food and some to save for later. When I can earn more money, I'll save it and try to make it grow to see if I can go back to my small business, since it's my only source of income."; Léveillé said over the past few months, UNDP has been working with the Haitian Government, providing technical advice on preparing for the oncoming hurricane season and operating an aid management platform to track all aid flows to the country.

In conjunction with the World Bank, the European Commission and the Inter-American. In cooperation with the Government of Haiti, the United Nations and the United States are co-hosting the Conference. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon; the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton; Haitian President René Préval and the UN Special Envoy for Haiti, former President Bill Clinton and UNDP Administrator Helen Clark will be among the speakers during the morning sessions. The Conference will be co-chaired by Brazil, Canada, the European Union, France, and Spain as leading donors to Haiti. The Government of Haiti will set the priorities for support. Ends

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Following a period of preparation that involved securing equipment and setting up systems of recruitment and payment, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Cash-for-Work initiative in Haiti is expanding rapidly. The number of workers doubled over the weekend to 31,885 and is expected to double by the end of the week. “Expansion at first was constrained by the need to coordinate with local authorities and ensure that systems were in place for things like payments and for the transparent and accountable management of the finances,” said UNDP Country Director Eric Overvest. Another challenge was obtaining the boots, gloves, shovels, pickaxes, wheelbarrows and trucks needed to remove the waste, added Cash-for-Work Programme Manager Abdullah Al-Laham. “At the end of the programme, all this material will be given to the poor and vulnerable to help sustain their livelihoods.” Al-Laham said UNDP is in the process of partnering with 15 national and international non-governmental organizations to facilitate the expansion of the programme into other areas of the city. These organizations are being selected through a call for proposals and a vetting of qualifications and will be announced before the end of the week. The programme, co-ordinated by the UNDP as part of its Emergency Relief and Recovery Framework, is working to put 100,000 workers on the street as quickly as possible, ideally doubling that further as conditions and funds allow. The workers are paid 180 gourdes, or roughly US$4.50 at current rates of exchange, for six hours’ labour. The work includes removing building rubble from the streets, crushing and sorting of reusable material and disposal of debris. The purpose is to restore essential public facilities, such as light rehabilitation and repairs of public infrastructure, access to water and protection of water sources, markets, communal washing areas, community centers, among others. These will help lay the foundations for mid-term recovery and development. Money for the programme is coming from a wide variety of sources, including, for example, the governments of Italy, Japan, Norway and Spain. In a demonstration of south-south solidarity, the governments of Brazil, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, and Mexico also have contributed to or have expressed interest to the programme. As of today, US$13.2 million have been pledged and US$6.1 million have been received. “The cash for work programme is bringing immediate results to restore livelihoods and dignity to the people of Haiti,” said UN Humanitarian Coordinator Kim Bolduc. “But to succeed it has to reach many more people, and this requires sustained international support from partners.”

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UNDP - Match Against Poverty Lisbon, Portugal January 25th 2010 Natural with French Source:


UNDP Restrictions: None 2.30 Min approx.
 

Shotlist :

1. Various of Match Against Poverty, various of Zinadine Zidane shaking hands with UNDP officials
2. Soundbite: (French)UNDP goodwill ambassador Zinadine Zidan:
3. Soundbite: (english) UNDP soccer player Kaka:
4. Various of Match Story: The UNDP-organised Match Against Poverty took place in Lisbon yesterday with the "Friends of Ronaldo and Zidane " playing against a "Benfica All Stars team” . Sixty international football players hailing from teams across the world competed in the two star-studded teams. For the past seven years, UNDP’s Match Against Poverty has raised funds for global efforts to reduce poverty while at the same time shining a much needed spotlight on those efforts. In the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti recently, the organizers and players have pledged that all proceeds from this year’s game will go toward relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti.


The Amount of the proceeds raised will be communicated in the coming days Zinadine Zidane, UNDP goodwill ambassador and organizer of the match said that he thinks that raising awareness for the people of Haiti is very important. “I think that as is the case every year the important thing is to mobilize people and we can't stress this enough (SOUNDBITE 01) the important thing is to mobilize people for the ongoing projects we have with UNDP and also think about the disaster that just occurred in Haiti. that's pretty much it. the important thing is to mobilize people and be present. and hope that every time we get together we can help and make a difference. we realize that people often wait for something to happen. there are things and places where we have to be.” Zidane said. Kaka, from the Real Madrid club, and who represented Ronaldo added that he was proud to be part of this game. “I’m very happy to be part of this game.

This a personal invitation from Ronaldo . I would pay in any case even if it is not in this situation, but when Ronaldo invited me I was very very happy because this cause, this charity at this time is very important. I think Haiti needs everybody now. In all the world there a lot of problems but the most urgent problem is Haiti now and because of that I am very happy to be part of this game tonight and represent Ronaldo in this game.” Kaka Said The Match also focused attention on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted in 2000.

They seek to halve world poverty by 2015. The Match Against Poverty is supported by the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The players, brought together through the efforts of UNDP Goodwill Ambassador’s Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane, included two rising Haitian players from the Portuguese Football Clubs, Jean Sony and Joseph Peterson, representing their recently devastated nation. The Brazilian midfielder Kaká (Real Madrid) represented Ronaldo who, unfortunately, was unable to attend the Match as he starts, on 24 January, the Brazilian football season with his Club Corinthians.

Other football stars participating in the match included Pavel Nedved (Czech Republic), Michael Laudrup (Denmark), Thierry Henry Fabien Barthez and Christophe Dugarry (France), Edgar Davids and Phillip Cocu (Netherlands), Luis Figo, Fernando Couto, and Pauleta, Rui Costa, Nuno Gomez (Portugal), Gheorghe Hagi and Gheorghe Popescu (Romania), Lucas Radebe (South Africa) and Fernando Hierro (Spain),

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UNDP - Cash For Work /Match Against Poverty Port au Prince, Haiti January 24th 2010 Natural with English Source: UNDP Restrictions: None 2.30 Min approx. Shotlist : 1. Various of people clearing rubble as part of the UNDP Cash for work program 2. Various of rubble being cleared 3. Soundbite: Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator saying: 4. Various of people clearing rubble 5. UNDP staff with people clearing rubble 6. Various of rubbe being cleared Story: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is employing over 4,000 Haitians in cash-for-work activities to jump start the local economy and facilitate the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance. The work focues on clearing of rubble from the port au Prince streets. Emphasis is also put on cleaning During the second phase, the program will focus on reconstruction activities and skills training. UNDP’s Match Against Poverty, a soccer match that will be played on January 25th in Lisbon between "Friends of Ronaldo and Zidane " and the Portuguese "Benfica All Stars team” will dedicate all proceeds from the game to the UNDP Cash for work program. For the past seven years, UNDP’s Match Against Poverty has raised funds for global efforts to reduce poverty while at the same time shining a much needed spotlight on those efforts. In the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti recently, the organizers and players have pledged that all proceeds from this year’s game will go toward relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti. As the co-ordinator of the UN early recovery team, UNDP is also working with the Government of Haiti and other partners to assess damages and needs, devise plans for rebuilding, and begin these immediate responses. The first phase of the cash-for-work programme will focus on Carrefour-Feuilles, a neighborhood just south of Port-au-Prince. The initiative will soon be rolled out in other earthquake-stricken locations, including Leogane and Jacmel. Once fully operational, the project will employ 220,000 people, indirectly benefitting around 1 million Haitians. UNDP Administrator, Helen Clark said that the Cash for work program is very important in the early relief efforts in Haiti. Past UNDP cash-for-work programmes in Haiti have laid the groundwork for this current initiative. After the 2008 hurricanes that killed 800 people and left 165,000 families homeless in Haiti, UNDP worked closely with the Haitian Government on reconstruction efforts, particularly focusing cash-for-work initiatives and watershed rehabilitation.

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Port au Prince, Haiti:  The cash-for-work programme was launched Tuesday


Natural with English and French
Restrictions: None
Source: UNDP
2.30 approx

Shotlist:
1. Various shots of destruction
2. Wide shot overlooking the Port-au-Prince.
3. Various shots people cleaning up rubble.
4. Soundbite: Patrick Masena, President of Accion Sanitarie saying:
"Given the difficult circumstances working in a community that's been ravaged...devastated homes, families out of work, everything's at a standstill but thanks to the funds made available by the un we're able to start recovery operations and hire 700 people on top of the 389  people who are already working. We’ve split the work into two groups working 6am - 12pm and 12pm - 6pm so that we can clean up the whole area. This is something that we're able to do as a community. The recruiting has been going on since this early morning. We’re able to do a lot with very little. There are two recruitment criteria.  You have to be the head of a household and you have to have lost an immediate family member to the earthquake."
5. Various shots people working in rubble recycling
6. People waiting on line to be recruited.
7. UNDP worker greeting local children.
8. People singing "Haiti will never die" in back of truck.
9. Wide shot of Port-au-Prince.

Story:
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) employed nearly 400 Haitians in cash-for-work activities to jump start the local economy and facilitate the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian assistance.  By the end of the week, this programme will expand to include another 700 people working on rubble removal and the rehabilitation of essential social infrastructure, such as street repairs and electricity.


As the co-ordinator of the UN early recovery team, UNDP is also working with the Government of Haiti and other partners to assess damages and needs, devise plans for rebuilding, and begin these immediate responses.
The first phase of the cash-for-work programme will focus on Carrefour-Feuilles, a neighborhood just south of Port-au-Prince. The initiative will soon be rolled out in other earthquake-stricken locations, including Leogane and Jacmel. Once fully operational, the project will employ 220,000 people, indirectly benefitting around 1 million Haitians.
Patrick Masena said that this program helps the local population.
 

"Given the difficult circumstances working in a community that's been ravaged...devastated homes, families out of work, everything's at a standstill but thanks to the funds made available by the un we're able to start recovery operations and hire 700 people on top of the 389  people who are already working. We’ve split the work into two groups working 6am - 12pm and 12pm - 6pm so that we can clean up the whole area. This is something that we're able to do as a community. The recruiting has been going on since this early morning. We’re able to do a lot with very little. There are two recruitment criteria.  You have to be the head of a household and you have to have lost an immediate family member to the earthquake." Masena added.



Past UNDP cash-for-work programmes in Haiti have laid the groundwork for this current initiative. After the 2008 hurricanes that killed 800 people and left 165,000 families homeless in Haiti, UNDP worked closely with the Haitian Government on reconstruction efforts, particularly focusing cash-for-work initiatives and watershed rehabilitation.



The cash-for-work programme launched Tuesday builds on UNDP’s Briquettes Project, a cash-for-work programme designed to combat climate change and reduce poverty.  To speed up the rubble clearing process, UNDP, as a first step, used the resources and staff previously employed by the Briquettes Project.  But UNDP is currently in the process of selecting the additional 700 people to be employed by the end of this week.

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UNDP-Brazil-CFC Rio De Janeiro/ Sao Goncal /Curitiba/ Sao Paola/ Brasilia, Brazil Recent Natural with English and Portuguese Source: UNDP – Access All Restrictions: None 5.24 Minutes SHOTLIST: Northern Brazil (File) (UN – Access all) 1. Arial shot of Brazil rain forest Curitiba, Brazil 2. Various of traffic 3. Various of buildings UN, New York (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 4. SOUNDBITE: (English)Yannick Glemarec, Director of UNDP’s Environment Finance saying: “When you speak about climate change, how much time is left? UNDP believes we must cut emissions by 50% by 2050.” Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 5. Various of CFC in lab 6. CFC being extracted from gas container UN, New York (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yannick Glemarec, Director of UNDP’s Environment Finance saying: Refrigerants contained in these fridges have a huge global warming potential. In addition to the ozone destruction potential they have a huge huge global warming potential. If you take all the refrigerants contained in all the domestic appliances if you take all this ODS (ozone depleting substances) is about 18 giga ton of carbon dioxide equivalent, this 3 to 4times the Kyoto protocol so you have a huge huge time bomb there” Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 8. Various of CFC in lab UN, New York (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 9. SOUNDBITE: Suely Carvalho, Chief, UNDP Montreal Protocol and Chemicals Unit saying: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 10. Various of streets 11. Flag of Brazil Curitiba, Brazil (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 12. Various of manufacturing of refrigerators 13. Various of refrigerators on production line Sao Goncal, Brazil (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 14. Various of Indiai at work in her kitchen 15. Various of Indiai’s old refrigerator 16. Various of new refrigerator being delivered 17. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Indiai a low income household receiving a new refrigerator saying: It is almost my birthday now on the 30th and there is already a new refrigerator! Thank you Lord!” 18. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Antônio Afonso Gomes Ampla employee saying: “We would rather not send our team out every month to cut off the family’s energy supply. We prefer that the family consume less, but pays their energy bill on time” 19. Various of Indiai’s old refrigerator being removed 20. Exterior of CFC extraction workshop 21. Various of extraction of CFC 22. CFC free compressors being stored in workshop Curitiba, Brazil (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 23. Various of refrigerator doors being carried 24. Various old refrigerators waiting for dismantling Brasilia. Brazil (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 25. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Danilo Furtado, Brazil Ministry of Mines and Energy Portuguese saying :): “The Brazilian refrigerator replacement program on the large scale focused on replacing 10 million refrigerators in 10 years has surpassed its initial” Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (Recent) (UNDP – Access All) 26. Beach STORY: Brazil, a land of great beauty and even greater potential. It is an economic engine of Latin America and the fourth most populous democracy in the world But with this great potential comes an even greater danger as the specter of climate change looms large on the horizon. “When you speak about climate change, how much time is left? UNDP believes we must cut emissions by 50% by 2050.” Yannick Glemare, UNDP’s Director of Environment Finance said. In 1992, UNDP became involved in one of the most ambitious CFC elimination efforts in the world. After China, Brazil is the second largest consumer of hydro chlorofluorocarbon gas, better known as CFC. CFCs are found primarily in Refrigeration and other cooling devices, and virtually all homes in Brazil have one. But CFCs are deadly to the environment. One ton of CFC has the potential to warm the atmosphere 10,000 times more than one ton of CO2. Refrigerants contain in the refrigerators have a huge huge global warming potential, and so you have a huge huge time bomb there. Glemare added. Brazil, along with 195 other countries, signed on to the Montreal Protocol in 1987, which called for the total elimination of all CFCs. New laws in Brazil prohibited the manufacturing and import of CFC gasses and only allowed for industry to use existing CFCs. Whirlpool, like other appliance companies, had to adapt to the new reality. UNDP worked with Whirlpool, Brazil’s largest appliance maker, in developing and manufacturing new But this was only the beginning of the solution. Brazil’s millions of poor cannot afford a new refrigerator. And yet it is the poor who benefit the most from energy efficient CFC-free refrigeration. On average, a new refrigerator will cut their energy bills down by as much as 20%. In 2000, Brazil passed a law requiring power distributors to increase energy efficiency in poor households. UNDP, working with the private sector, connected these power companies to manufacturers of new, CFC-free refrigerators. One of these power companies, AMPLA, quickly realized these new refrigerators were not only good for the environment but would ensure that low income customers would be able to pay their bills on time. Indiai (Indjai) lives in a small house with her family of 5 in a poor neighborhood in the city of Sao Goncal. She is one of thousands of low income recipients of new refrigerators distributed by AMPLA through this program. “It is almost my birthday now on the 30th and there is already a new refrigerator! Thank you Lord!” Indiai said after receiving the new fridge from Ampla “We would rather not send our team out every month to cut off the family’s energy supply. We prefer that the family consume less, but pays their energy bill on time.” Antônio Afonso Gomes who works for Ampla said. Indiai’s old refrigerator is just beginning its long journey. Its disposal is no simple matter since the trapped CFCs will eventually leak into the atmosphere if they are simply discarded in a landfill. UNDP, working with the Government, supplies reclamation shops like this one with special recovery toolkits and the training needed to safely extract the CFC from the refrigerators’ compressor. As a result of all these efforts, a new, greener economy is being developed in Brazil that takes advantage of opportunities like carbon financing and a brand new market for reclaimed CFCs. With the possibility of new international agreements regulating climate change gasses on the horizon, Brazil, like other countries, has its work cut out for it. With this project, which can be replicated in other countries, UNDP is helping Brazil connect to international financing needed to get this effort going. It is bringing in the technical know-how and training to make these projects sustainable. And, perhaps most importantly, UNDP is using its vast network of public, private, international and local partners to construct a chain that begins with a new, CFC-free refrigerator for people like Indiai and her family, and ends with the total elimination of CFC-emissions in Brazil. ENDS

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HDR09-  Jeni Klugman Interview

New York , USA

Recent

English

Source: UNDP

Restrictions: None

 ****** STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 03:00  GMT (10:00 am  IN BANGKOK) 5 OCTOBER 2009 ******

Shotlist: New York, USA (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

1. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “I think there are three core messages.  The overarching one is that migration can be good for human development, as you've already mentioned. Secondly, that there are important barriers to movement, which prevent people from moving and mean that people often move in unsafe conditions and dangerous conditions are not well treated upon arrival, and thirdly, and relatedly, that there's a role of much greater policies to improve these outcomes.”

2. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “The overarching message of this report is that migration can be good for human development.  It can bring large gains to people's incomes, to their educations, to their general empowerment in many in many respects.  Secondly, however, there are very important barriers to movement, and those barriers both reduce the possible benefits and also mean that people are unfairly treated and subject to risks and costs that are unnecessary. Thirdly and relatedly, there's a role of much better policies to improve the outcomes from migration for human development.”

3. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “An initial key myth is that of the myth of invasion. You know that hordes of people are moving from poor developing countries to rich countries. There’s much more movement than in the past to developed countries, but less than 4 in 10 are international migrants are moving from developing to developed countries and for example, fewer than 1% of all Africans move to Europe.  So that's one important myth.  A second important myth is that internal migration is not important, in fact we find that there are 4 times as many internal migrants, people moving within the borders of their own country, in the world relative to international migrants.  And finally, and I think also importantly, the share of international migrants in the world overall has not increased at all in the last 50 years. As a share of the population the number is the same about 3%, of course the number has grown as the population has grown.”

4. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “Internal migrants can reap important gains. I mean, typically they're moving as well to better off areas, china is a nice example of that, but we also found that in cases like Bolivia as well.  Clearly the costs of moving are lower, the differences upon arrival are less.  At the same time, they also face important constraints. And we found surprisingly a large number of countries either prevent or limit people from moving within their own country or deny access to services upon arrival.”

5. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “Oh yes, certainly.  I mean the differences in order of magnitude in terms of wages for example I think are 4 - 5 times on average, normally better access to health services and education services and so on.  Partly this is reflecting the differences between urban and rural provision.”

7. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “Internal migrants are certainly better off than they would have been if they had stayed where they were. In part because they are able to get better jobs in the new place, they're able to get better access to services, mirroring the differences often between urban and rural areas.  Of course, there are certain exceptions in the case of people who are internally displaced, for example, moving under duress, but in general they're better off.”

8. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “The abuses and vulnerabilities faced by migrants is a very important and very real issue. I think measures can be taken on several sides.  Firstly on the side of governments in origin places making sure that people are aware of their rights before they leave. There are important responsibilities on the part of the governments in the places that migrants go to ensure against abuse.  Certainly employers have a very important role to play.  Unions have an important role to play as well as civil society.

9. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “There are important reasons why governments in which places migrants go should be involved (awk). Firstly because migrants who have assistant in adjusting to the new situation, for example learning the language are much better able to access jobs, access the labor market and do well in those places. Secondly because there are cases where their credentials for example, their degrees from overseas are not being recognized, so governments have a role in recognizing those qualifications to allow them to contribute productively to the new place.”

10. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “A key initial difficulty is that of language. Although what we do find in the report is that about half of all migrants moved to places within the neighborhood and to places with similar languages. But for those who move further afield, clearly language is an important barrier, and can constrain access to jobs. Another key barrier in many places is access to services. Being able to send kids to school, being able to have children immunized for example, is another key key challenge. What we've also found in the context of the recession, is that migrants are much more likely to be laid off. So migrants are losing their jobs disproportionately relative to locals and that's clearly creating hardship as well.”

11. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “Migration is expensive and what we found is that it's actually more expensive for poor people than it is for better off people and so people can spend up to half a year's salary simply on the fees to enable them to move and even prior to that one needs a birth certificate, we know that over 50 million kids around the world don't even have a birth certificate so it's difficult for them to get a passport. To get a passport, for example, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, costs almost as much as annual income, so those sorts of paper walls are very important barriers to moving.”

12. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “I think there are sort of two main dimensions of action, which are very important at this point. Firstly is to liberalize and to simplify access, conditional on the availability of jobs to allow people to come when jobs are available to seek work and realize opportunities. Secondly, to ensure equity of treatment, access to basic services on the same basis as citizens.

 “Well, irregular status brings enormous costs for many migrants. In many countries they're denied access to services as a result. They’re vulnerable to exploitation by employees b/c they're fearful of deportation. It also creates costs for the community at large b/c there are numbers of people there who are not present lawfully and that can undermine the sense of the rule of law. So regularization is very important, it can happen in different ways. One is to expand access to entry so that people actually come on a legal basis, and that is clearly preferable to people moving illegally. A second way is so called through regularization, or amnesties whereby people can earn the right to be able to stay in a country based on for example their job record, their lack of criminal conviction and over time be integrated fully into the society. 

 “Well you've got situations where it's economic duress which has driven the movement and people are not formally entitled to refugee status clearly they have to get by on their owns, and often times they're already moving to other developing countries which already have overburdened services so it's hard. And it's difficult both for the communities and the societies, which are receiving the migrants, it's a challenge for the governments, but what we've found in a number of the large developing countries, which do have significant influx of people, is that they are trying to secure access to basic services.  Thailand is a good example of that where it's by no means one of the richest countries in the world but it's clearly making an effort to ensure that the people who come have access to services and I think south Africa since the events of early in 2009 2008, is making more efforts now to ensure that people can have regular status and can have access to basic services but there certainly is no quick fixes to these issues.”

13. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “The ideal scenario would be dealing with the constraints to access in a constructive way and that would involve looking forward, opening up, and allowing people to come to seek jobs or obtain jobs in the economy or in the society, at the same time addressing the challenge of the people that are already in the country without regular status who are denied access to important protections and benefits and are vulnerable in different ways by undertaking something like amnesties which have been done in many countries quite successfully in the past and for those that are there and unable to take advantage of the amnesty, enforcing the laws and regulations in ways that are humane and in accordance with international law.

“What I hope from this report is that based on a bit of sense of the underlying facts and the dimensions of the nature of mobility and the potential gains that it can bring for development and human development, that policy makers will be encouraged to move forward on what is really quite a tough agenda and would do so on two broad fronts: one would be to liberalize access and simplify access, so that low skilled people in particular can move, and secondly would ensure equity of treatment for those who do move.” 

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Thailand – Migrant Workers

Bangkok /Vieng Mung, Thailand

Recent

Nat ,Thai and English

Source: UNDP

Restrictions: None

5:01 Min

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Shotlist: Vieng Mung, Northern Thailand (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

1.      Various Street Scenes/ Pushcarts

2.      Various of textile factory workers

3.      SOUNDBITE (Thai): Pikul Klom, Cambodia Migrant saying: “I came here because I wanted to work.”

4.      Pikul, Cambodia Migrant, working

5.      SOUNDBITE (Thai): Pikul Klom, Cambodia Migrant saying: “Living there was pretty tough.  As a farmer, it’s pretty unpredictable.  Sometimes we got a good harvest, sometimes a bad one.  The harvest was only once a year, and there were no other jobs for the rest of the year.”

6.      SOUNDBITE (Thai): Kom Tong, Pikul’s Husband, saying: “I was a construction worker in Cambodia.  Harder work with much less pay.  I couldn’t make the ends meet.  Here I get higher salary, free accommodation and food.  I can even send some money back home.”

7.       Various of Market

8.      People in line for window clerk

Bangkok, Thailand (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

9.      SOUNDBITE (Thai): Amporn Nitisiri, Thailand Department of Labor and Welfare saying: “Thai law states that all migrant workers have the right to be treated as equal to Thai workers regardless of nationality, gender, age, or religion.  That includes an equal standard of salary and benefits as well.

New York, USA (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

10.  SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “Irregular status brings enormous costs for many migrants.  In many countries, they’re denied access to services as a result.  They’re vulnerable to exploitation by employers because they’re fearful of deportation.  It also creates costs for the community at large because there are numbers of people there who are not present normally, and that can undermine the sense of the rule of law.  So regularization is very important.  It can happen in different ways.  One is to expand access to entry; so people actually come on a legal basis.”

Vieng Mung, Thailand (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

11.  Various of ironing shop.

New York, USA (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

12.  SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “Thailand I think is a good example of the where it’s by no means one of the richest countries in the world, but it’s clearly making an effort to insure that the people who come have access to services.”

Vieng Mung, Thailand (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

13.  Man in hospital waiting room

14.  Various of Pikul Klom, Cambodia Migrant, in the hospital

15.  Pikul Klom, Cambodian Migrant undergoing a medical check up

16.  SOUNDBITE (Thai): Pikul Klom, Cambodia Migrant saying: “First, I came and worked illegally, but afterwards I enrolled in the foreign employee registration to become legal.”

17.  SOUNDBITE (Thai): Kwin Trizart, Silkscreen Factory Owner saying: “They are loyal, they can keep up with my instructions, and lastly, they don’t complain much about the living condition I offer.”

Bangkok, Thailand (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

18.  SOUNDBITE (Thai): Amporn Nitisiri, Thailand Department of Labor and Welfare saying: “Thailand strongly believes in and applies to a policy of human rights and human dignity.  We believe that if we take care of good migrant workers, we will get a better workforce and higher quality products.”

Vieng Mung, Thailand (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

19.  Workers sitting in television room

20.  Various of Pikul Klom preparing food

21.  Various of food being prepared

22.  Workers eating.

 

Story:

Allowing for migration – both within and between countries – has the potential to increase people’s freedom and improve the lives of millions around the world, according to the 2009 Human Development Report launched here today.

We live in a highly mobile world, where migration is not only inevitable but also an important dimension of human development. Nearly one billion – or one out of seven – people are migrants. The report, Overcoming Barriers: Human mobility and development, demonstrates that migration can enhance human development for the people who move, for destination communities and for those who remain at home.

In Thailand migrants are encouraged to register and can then receive access to services like health and education.

Pikul Klom, a migrant worker living in the village of Vieng Mung in Northern Thailand that came to seek better employment opportunities across the border says that she was often unemployed at home.

“Living there was pretty tough.  As a farmer, it’s pretty unpredictable.  Sometimes we got a good harvest, sometimes a bad one.  The harvest was only once a year, and there were no other jobs for the rest of the year.”Khon adds.

Because Thai law makes it clear that every worker need to be treated equally Khon and her husband can make a living here and send money home to their families.

Contrary to commonly held beliefs, migrants typically boost economic output and give more than they take. Detailed investigations show that immigration generally increases employment in host communities, does not crowd out locals from the job market and improves rates of investment in new businesses and initiatives. Overall, the impact of migrants on public finances – both national and local – is relatively small, while there is ample evidence of gains in other areas such as social diversity and the capacity for innovation.

Amporn Nitisiri, Thailand Department of Labor and Welfare says that migrants have equal rights in Thailand.

“Thai law states that all migrant workers have the right to be treated as equal to Thai workers regardless of nationality, gender, age, or religion.  That includes an equal standard of salary and benefits as well.” Nitisiri said.

Jeni Klugman the author of the 2009 Human Development Report says that regularization of migrants is fundamental to increased human development.

“Irregular status brings enormous costs for many migrants.  In many countries, they’re denied access to services as a result.  They’re vulnerable to exploitation by employers because they’re fearful of deportation.  It also creates costs for the community at large because there are numbers of people there who are not present normally, and that can undermine the sense of the rule of law.  So regularization is very important.  It can happen in different ways.  One is to expand access to entry; so people actually come on a legal basis.” Klugman Said.

Migration can raise a person’s income, health and education prospects. Most importantly, being able to decide where to live is a key element of human freedom, according to the Report, which also argues that large gains to human development can be achieved by lowering barriers and other constraints to movement and by improving policies towards those who move. 

 

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India – Internal Migrants

Calcutta

Recent

Nat, Hindi, Eng

Source: UNDP

Restrictions: None

3:43 min

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Shotlist: Calcutta, India (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

1.       Various of train with passengers

2.       Taxi drivers

3.       Various market scenes

4.       Train tracks with people

5.       Crowded pedestrians

6.       Traffic

7.       Man selling in his market stand

8.       Various of Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner selling from food stall

9.       SOUNDBITE (Hindi): Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner saying: “We’re doing good here.  We can earn Money”

10.   Beren Prepares food

11.   SOUNDBITE (Hindi): Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner saying: “We don’t have any kind of pain.  If we had all the facilities in Bihar, we wouldn’t have come to Bengal.  Her I can make money, do business.  Here we can run our livelihood.”

12.   Various of Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner tending to food stall.

UN, New York (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

1. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “Internal migrants are better off than they would have been had they stayed where they were in part because they’re able to get better jobs.  In the new places, they’re able to have better access to services, mirroring the differences often between urban and rural areas.  Of course, there are important exceptions in the cases of people who are internally displaced, for example moving under duress.  But in general, they’re better off.”

Calcutta, India (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

1.       GVs streets

2.       GVs tenements

3.       Various of Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner, and family at home

4.       SOUNDBITE (Hindi): Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner saying: “While coping with all the hurdles and problems, we are trying to educate our children, so they can gain knowledge, become smart and clever.”

5.       Beren Shaw’s child doing school work.

6.       SOUNDBITE (Hindi): Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner saying: “I think that in the future my son will be educated, and we are very happy about that, and we can have a better standard of living.”

7.       Beren Shaw, Internal Migrant/Food Stall Owner, watching his son read.

New York, USA (Recent) (UNDP – Access All)

1. SOUNDBITE (English): Jeni Klugman, Director of the Human Development Report Office, UNDP saying: “We find that here are four times as many internal migrants, people moving within the borders of their own country, in the world relative to international migrants.”

 

Calcutta, India (Recent) (UNDP – Access All

1.       Indian flags hanging in front of a clock tower

2.       Street scene, market place

 

Story:

Migrants typically boost economic output and give more than they take, according to the 2009 Human Development Report launched in Bangkok today.

The Report, Overcoming Barriers: Human mobility and development, casts new light on some common misconceptions about migration. Most migrants to not cross national borders but instead move within their own country, searching for new and better opportunities for themselves and their families. In fact, seven out of ten migrants move within the borders of their own country.

In India, the number of people who move within the country is more than twice the number of people who emigrate to other countries.

Beren Shaw is a food stall owner in Calcutta who moved his family to Bihar to seek a new life.

“If we had all the facilities in Bihar, we wouldn’t have come to Bengal. Here I can make money, do business. Here we can run our livelihood.”

The Report’s detailed investigations show that immigration usually increases employment in host communities, does not crowd out locals from the job market and improves rates of investment in new businesses and initiatives. At the same time, internal migrants stand to gain increased wages and better access to crucial services like health care and education.

While Beren Shaw has had his fair share of challenges in building a new life for himself and his family, he believes his son now has opportunities he never would have had back in Bihar.

“While coping with all the hurdles and problems, we are trying to educate our children, so they can gain knowledge, become smart and clever … I think that in the future my son will be educated, and we are very happy about that, and we can have a better standard of living.”

As long as differences exist between rural and urban areas, people will continue moving from one part of their country to another in order to take advantage of better schools and social services, higher income opportunities, cultural amenities, new modes of living, technological innovations and links to the world.

 

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