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The Rohingya Crisis: Providing security and choices for local and refugee communities

Duration 8m54s

Edit Version International

Video Type Video News Release (VNR)

Date 04/27/2018

File size 953.52 MB

Unique ID UF2T53

All editorial uses permitted

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UNFAO Source FAO Video

Shotlist LOCATIONS: Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

DATE: 19-25 March 2018

SOUND: Natural / English / Rohingya/ Chittagonian

LENGTH: 9’01”

SOURCE: FAO

ACCESS: ALL

1. Various b-roll of Kutupalong refugee camp

2. various Rohingya kids in the camp

3. Various Rohingya people walking inside camp

4. Various Saleha Begum from host community cleaning rice

5. Saleha Begum cooking

6. Various Rohingya people chopping and stacking wood

7. Various Rohingya man carrying wood

8. Various b-roll of Kutupalong refugee camp

9. A Rohingya woman and a kid

10. Rohingya kids inside camp

11. Various Rohingya women

12. Close up of a water pump pumping water out

13. Pan from FAO staff talking to people to men using water pump

14. A man operating a power tiller

15. Close up of packets of seeds

16. A woman, a beneficiary, planting seeds

17. Top shot workers stacking water pots

18. Workers loading food containers on truck

19. Close of food containers

20. A beneficiary receiving food container and supplies

21. A kid onlooking

22. Wide of a woman receiving a food container and water pot, tilt down to water pot

23. Various people carrying food containers and water pots on the road

24. Various FAO workers talking to beneficiaries

25. Various FAO workers and beneficiaries examining plants in field

26. Saleha Begum from host community working in the farm

27. A man ploughing land

28. Saleha Begum and a man ploughing land

29. Close up cutting vegetable

30. Low shot a woman cooking

31. Nur Bahar, a Rohingya refugee adding spice on a dish

32. Close up of fire in oven

33. Nur Bahar, a Rohingya refugee cooking

34. A woman opening the lid of a food container

35. Various of woman taking out grains from food container

36. Close up of hand spreading grains on a plate

37. A woman planting seeds

38. Nur Bahar, a Rohingya refugee ploughing land

39. Close up packets of seeds

40. Nur Bahar, a Rohingya refugee, watering land with a wáter pot

41. Various Nur Bahar, a Rohingya refugee, eating food with her kids

42. Various Saleha Begum from host community counting money

43. Close of a kid wating

44. Saleha Begum and her family eating food

45. Pan of of Kutupalong refugee camp

46. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, “The Rohingya influx is causing great problems for us.”

47. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, “We are poor, there is not enough work left for us.”

48. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, “The daily wage has gone down to two hundred Taka (USD 2.5).”

49. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, “With this money, we can only buy very little rice and groceries.”

50. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, “Previously we could have afforded more with the five hundred Taka (USD 6.2 ) we used to earn.”

51. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, “Rice became more costly, all vegetables became more costly.”

52. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, How can we afford all this?”

53. SOUNDBITE ( English ) Peter Agnew, FAO Resilience Programme Consultant, “So these people that lived here before, had a very nice life or they were able to sustainably harvest from the forest. They were making livelihoods after selling things from the forest including firewood. Now that you can see that, that forest is gone, it is kilometers away from here now. So the people who used to do that are competing with an enormous population. And this population has lots of resource needs: land, water, firewood, food, there’s simply is not enough management capacity for us to take this overnight.”

54. SOUNDBITE ( English) Mohammad Abul Kalam, Commissioner of Bangladesh’s Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission, “People currently living in the greater Kutupalong site is under threat from landslide and potential flooding. So that makes a big case really. About two hundred thousand people there. Beyond Kutupalong expansion site, there are two other sites, namely Chakmarkul and Shuprang. And a good number of people are believed to be under danger of land slide and flooding there too. So it is about two hundred plus people who will be relocated for safety.”

55. SOUNDBITE ( English) Peter Agnew, FAO Resilience Programme Consultant, “You know what is often overlooked in emergencies is the agricultural element of the livelihoods of the existing population. So one of the first things that are lost in any emergencies is peoples’ capacity to produce. They are just too occupied and overwhelmed. But losing that production base can set you back by a year or two years because seasonality is a huge issue when you are doing agriculture. If you miss a crop season you miss your livelihood, and you miss your food production for an entire year.

56. SOUNDBITE ( English) Peter Agnew, FAO Resilience Programme Consultant, “So FAO’s arrival in early October, and its ability to respond quickly to get to the needs of the farmers was really key this year. And we are quite proud that we were able to get the pumps and the tillers and the seeds out to the people in time for them to do not miss this year’s production. It really worked out well.”

57. SOUNDBITE ( English) Manuel Marques Pereira, Emergency Coordinator, IOM Bangladesh, “ Well this project is particularly important to us because we want to make sure that our response to the Rohingya community and also to the host community is as balanced as possible. The cooperation that we are having with FAO will allow us to promote better nutrition to very vulnerable families that will also integrate the component on preparedness and training that is very valuable for IOM in all of our programing. The fact that the schools are increasing knowledge about different agricultural practices, the fact that the agricultural groups have access to technology and tools that can increase the capacity of production will ensure that the host community has better revenue and better practices in commercial terms. That, in turn, will also contribute to an increase the access to different products by the Rohingya, the refugee community, and that’s the value added of the project.”

58. SOUNDBITE ( English) Manuel Marques Pereira, Emergency Coordinator, IOM Bangladesh, “On the other side, as I said for preparedness, the fact that part of the trainings and part of the discussions with both communities are centered on why it is important to be prepared to the impact of disasters, namely the distribution of food containers so that people can store seeds, foods and even documents in case of flood or other natural events is very important for us. Considering the monsoon season is upon us and many risks will be faced by the communities. We think these are extremely important to do so.

59. SOUNDBITE ( Rohingya) Nur Bahar, a Rohingya refugee, “With the seeds and water pot that I have received. I have planted the seeds and water them.”.

60. SOUNDBITE ( Rohingya) Nur Bahar, a Rohingya refugee, “With the extra seeds, I’ll be able to plant again after the harvest.”

61. SOUNDBITE ( Rohingya) Nur Bahar, a Rohingya refugee, “ When the spinach grows, I will cook stew with them and feed my children, it will improve their nutrition and also strengthen their health.”

62. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, “ As you are providing us with these supports.”

63. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, “ Not only us, another twenty families in the neighbourhood are benefited.”

64. SOUNDBITE ( Chittagonian ) Saleha Begum, host community, “ We hope we will be benefited more in the near future by the grace of God.”

ENDS

Watch: How is FAO supporting Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=861ytEA4fnM

Find out more:

Press release, May 4th, 2018: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/1127488/icode/

FAO’s emergency response in Bangladesh http://www.fao.org/emergencies/countries/detail/en/c/161520/

Script STORYLINE:
The situation for 1.2 million Rohingya refugees and host communities in Bangladesh has become increasingly dangerous with the onset of the cyclone season and monsoon rains. The annual monsoon is predicted to cause a catastrophe through numerous landslides and flash floods. Putting already vulnerable people at even greater risk.

To help communities cope better during the cyclone season and monsoon rains, FAO has been distributing food safety kits, which include 60-liter, water-proof storage containers where people can safely store their food stocks, seeds and valuable items, such as personal documents. The kits also include tools, seeds and fertilizer so that family can grow vegetables and eat highly nutritious food.

FAO is also looking at food availability at the community-level. In the first quarter of 2018, FAO distributed quality seeds, high-efficiency water pumps and power tillers to farmers’ groups amongst the host communities so that they don’t miss this year’s harvest and can produce more food.

FAO also provided training in better agricultural production; facilitated access to markets; and built the capacity of farmers’ groups to produce and market their products.

FAO’s activities look beyond the emergency response and contribute to building communities’ resilience

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar to seek protection in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh since August 2017.

The scale of the refugee crisis – nearly 900,000 refugees, more than double the local population of Cox’s Bazar – has placed significant pressure on host communities.

This has intensified competition for available natural resources, food, fuel and decent work. This is resulting in higher prices and lower wages.

The increasing need to cut forest for firewood has been depleting the environment, intensifying the risk of deadly landslides and flash floods during this year’s monsoon season. Host community members find this situation is creating great problems for them. “There is not enough work left for us,” Saleha Begum, a local resident said. “The daily wage has gone down to two hundred Taka (USD 2.5),” she added. “With this money, we can only buy very little rice and groceries.”

Nur Bahar and her two children spent 11 days crossing hills and river in Myanmar before they reached the border with Bangladesh. Her husband died 10 years ago from a disease. She witnessed armed men abducted, shot, slaughtered, and killed people in Myanmar– the dreadful memories often come back when she goes to sleep. Currently residing in Kutupalong camp, she plants with the seeds, spade and water pot she received. Like many refugees, Nur Bahar finds safe haven in Bangladesh. Yet she hopes she could return home one day.

FAO is appealing for $8.3 million to protect and restore the livelihoods of vulnerable populations, mitigate social tension, and carry out longer-term environmental recovery and agricultural production efforts. To date, FAO has only received $1.5 million of the total of $9.8 million that it urgently requires for 2018. The funds will enable FAO to set up nurseries and rehabilitate degraded forest areas to curtail further environmental degradation and restore the natural resource base; provide employment opportunities to host communities in environmental rehabilitation activities; continue supporting host communities to increase their food production by providing them with training, seeds and tools; and improve the nutrition of refugees and host communities. FAO is partnering with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to improve conditions for both refugees and the host communities. As host communities increase their food production, this will not only cover for their own food needs but provide them with an extra income as surplus production can be purchased for distribution to the refugees.

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