TOTAL DURATION: 32'32''

01.00.00.00 IFAD SPOT 30''

01.00.40.07 IFAD PRESIDENT LENNART BÅGE

''Always when I travel to Africa, you first read about the poverty and the very desperate situation that people live in. When you come to Africa and you talk to the people, and you talk to their leaders there is much more hope. You have still the poverty, you have still the difficulties and despair but you also have hope and progress.

And in the projects, the villages I visited, people are having hpoes of a better future becauase there are improvements in irrigation, in rural transport, in rural finance in education and in health. So I saw a lot of progress and I saw a lot of strong people still living in what we would call poverty but with a lot of strengths and a lot of ideas and a lot of working together to build a better life.''

01.00.40.07 Ends

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BENIN (FILMED 2000)

IFAD PROJECT: Microfinance and Marketing Project

This six-year IFAD-initiated project, will build upon experience and lessons learned from two previous IFAD-financed interventions concerned with establishing innovative rural finance mechanisms and marketing and supporting women's income-generating activities. The main objectives will be to:
(i) facilitate access of rural poor households and women to financial services adapted to their specific needs; (ii) increase women's incomes and empowerment;
(iii) increase market opportunities and reduce constraints to market transactions; and (iv) promote the establishment of self-managed and self-financed local enterprises for the provision of financial and commercial services.

01.02.04.07 General shots rural people in Benin
01.04.59.15 Various Village School
01.06.05.01 Various pineapple processing to make juice (small enterprise)
01.07.30.07 Ext Rural Bank
01.07.59.23 Int Rural Bank, woman makes deposit
01.08.41.15 Ext Radio Solidaire
01.09.07.01 Int Radio Station, Various details
01.10.05.17 Radio Announcer lists prices of basic foodstuffs in French
01.11.18.18 High Angle shots of busy market
01.12.20.12 Radio Journalist checking prices
01.12.48.04 Market from Ground
01.13.11.11 Women making pots (small enterprise)
01.14.01.24 Women making palm wine (small enterprise)
01.15.50.04 Villagers sing and dance
01.17.13.17 Benin Ends

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MOZAMBIQUE (FILMED 2001)

IFAD PROJECT: Nampula Artisanal Fisheries Project

The project aims to improve every aspect of fishing and fishing techniques. The isolated region has many unemployed men. Fishing could give them work. Better ways in marketing the fish is also a priority. Already its starting to show results. One of the projects first achievements is to keep the big industrial trawlers at bay. A new agreement with the Government means that ships must stay 3 nautical miles out to sea.

01.17.33.18 Various fishermen on beach in Nampula
01.18.06.15 ALFREDO ALFANE, interview
''Before the project started we had a big problem. The big trawlers came and destroyed our nets. Then we approached the boat owners for compensation, we got nothing. They gave us nothing.''
01.18.24.15 Fishermen with catch
01.18.42.04 Fishermen sell fish around the streets of Angoche
Without clean water, communities wither and die. A supply of good drinking water is at the heart of a thriving village life. To raise more money the project has devised a savings scheme for the women. Each woman receives the entire pot of savings in rotation so that she can start up a small business. Getting the women involved is important, a savings scheme help to stave off emergencies and generate spare cash,
Again keeping the fishing communities stable and united. These savings meetings are a good excuse for propoganda. Mosquito nets are so destructive and the cause of poverty in our lives. The project discourages the use of mosquito nets by making sure proper fishing equipment is available.
01.18.54.18 Women sing and dance
01.19.20.18 Fishermen in sea
Its negotiated a local mesh size of 12cm and it encourages the local shops to stock these approved nets along with other fishing gear. He's buying a proper net with the right mesh size and his mosquito net will be used for its original purpose.
01.19.25.07 Fisherman buys new net in shop
01.19.38.22 Ext village
01.19.40.21 Various CU of fish
01.20.11.12 End Mozambique

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TANZANIA (FILMED 2000)

IFAD PROJECT: Water Supply and Health Project in the Marginal Areas

The rural population of the central dry areas of the United Republic of Tanzania faces severe constraints due to the lack of safe water supply and health services. Agricultural production increases alone are not sufficient to bring about all-round development. The project's major focus is on providing the rural population with better access to clean drinking water in order to reduce the incidence of waterborne diseases and the time spent in collecting water, which is estimated at 3.1 hours each day by the women. Some 336,000 people are expected to benefit from improved access to potable water and sanitation. A community health care delivery system to support and strengthen the district health system is being established. The project is also aiming at strengthening local government capacity to plan and implement a water sanitation development programme.

01.20.33.06 Intro Sequence, arid landscape, clean water falling
01.20.54.01 Train, Dodoma station, Dodoma GVs, streetshots, traffic
01.21.26.16 Vehicle leaving Dodoma, tracking from car, passersby in the bush, KELEMA BALAI VILLAGE
01.21.41.03 Various irrigation, women pouring water on plants, donkeys carrying water
NEAR CHIBOLI VILLAGE
01.22.30.05 Interview Monica
01.22.54.16 Monica counting and naming family members one by one,
01.23.16.08 Monica carries embers, entering house, preparing and cooking food with baby on her shoulders
01.23.56.15 Cattle drinking at water point,
CHIBOLI VILLAGE:
01.23.56.15 Interview with Aloysius Nyenza

Aloysius Nyenza is one of the best known hydraulic engineers in the country, and he is familiar with this region of Dodoma.
''In the absence of reliable water sources for the villagers, people are going back to make private, local wells for themselves, and this is pioneered by the people with the livestock, because livestock means the economic well being of the communities themselves. This is one of the wells, they have tried various ones, and the acquifer here is ..., is temporary, and in the next two months it will dry out. Is not safe, is unsafe, is dirty. It's full of mud, but they are just using it for the livestock, to keep the animals alive. Once they don't have alternatives, there are people which are using it for domestic use, but they have to boil it to make sure that thay keep their life intact. Otherwise, taking as it is, it would endanger their lives. In a few months the water in the holes will dry, and finally people will have no alternative sources to take water. Once that happens some of them would depend on the neighbouring villages, where they will go with bycicles, and some of the people with the livestock will have move away, but this will happen in the absence of the new pump and engine which we have ordered to have it installed on the proper borehole which has been recently drilled. But in the past... they used to move out for other sources... that would not happen this time because the water is coming as a result of the new installation which have been done under the support of IFAD.''

01.25.37.0 Boy starting borehole pump engine, CUs engine running,
ext. pump house, IFAD sticker
01.25.56.20 Water falling from tap, woman filling jerrycan and transporting it
01.26.21.01 Nyenza talking to camera (partially covered)
01.26.27.00 Woman transporting water on head, entering home, washing dishes
BAHI VILLAGE
01.26.53.00 Beatrice walking, talking to camera, with other villagers drinking choya (local beer)
NEAR CHIBOLI VILLAGE
01.27.34.06 Monica with baby at sunset/night, young villagers running after livestock, Monica milking cow, Monica drinking milk
01.28.39.17 Monica's house at dusk, horns on the roof, dusk scenes, Monica. looks at her husband Soneka
01.29.06.07 Interview with Soneka, CU Soneka's hands
01.29.24.00 Soneka giving instructions to his sons about how to direct cattle to the graze, and chooses the ones to be sold on the market.
WALKING TO MTERADAM LAKE
01.30.17.17 Monica with other women walking in the bush, carrying jerrycans and babies
01.30.51.24 Monica and other women arrive at lake, two women rest while Monica washes her clothes and her baby.
01.31.46.11 The three women fill jerrycans with lake water, put jerrycans on head and start the walk back.
01.32.32.09 ENDS