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The ICRC, established in 1863, works worldwide to provide humanitarian help for people affected by conflict and armed violence and to promote the laws that protect victims of war. An independent and neutral organization, its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, it employs some 12,000 people in 80 countries; it is financed mainly by voluntary donations from governments and from national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies

The application OSM2NetworkDataset converts OpenStreetMap (OSM) data so it can be used for network analyses in the ArcGIS extension Network Analyst. This program was designed to generate transportation networks for any mode of transportation and any region

MSP GEOTRANS (Geographic Translator) is an application program which allows you to easily convert geographic coordinates among a wide variety of coordinate systems, map projections, and datums. GEOTRANS runs in Microsoft Windows, LINUX and UNIX environments

The HPCR is an international research and policy program based at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Program offers a multidisciplinary approach to new challenges in the field of humanitarian affairs. Key sectors of activity include: Human security , Conflict management, International humanitarian law

The vision of NDU Press is to lead the National Defense University Enterprise in publishing and disseminating vital and complex defense and national security scholarship in a variety of media to inform and influence defense and policy decisionmakers, as well as the joint professional military education community and interested public

The 2011 Annual Report of the ICRCr is an account of field activities conducted out of 80 delegations worldwide. The activities are part of the organization's mandate to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and to promote respect for international humanitarian law. The ICRC's Annual Report 2011 describes the harm that armed conflicts inflict on populations around the world, and what the organization is doing to protect and assist them

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with almost 110 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system

the intent of this handbook is not to explain how CALL does business. Rather, it takes a holistic look at what CALL does today and combines that with numerous, successful LL programs to lay a foundation for a "generic" LL capability that can be used as a "menu" of options to develop your own LL program. There are no hard-and-fast rules for how to set up an LL program. Typically, any LL effort will depend on what the organization is trying to achieve and its level of resourcing. Every organization must develop its own way of working with observations, insights, lessons, and best practices that suits the nature of the knowledge it requires and its organizational culture

To keep the world food supply/demand situation under continuous review, issue reports on the world food situation (See our Publications: Food Outlook, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, etc.), and provide early warnings of impending food crises in individual countries (See our Country Briefs).