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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.
“Until poverty has been eradicated, until the environment has been fully protected, until every person has a vote and basic human rights, there will be a need for development assistance.” J. Brian Atwood, Chairman, Board of Advisors
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Devex, founded, a decade ago to help make development aid more efficient – so $200 billion in annual foreign assistance can have more impact for more people. It is a social enterprise providing a global platform – utilized by nearly every major development institution in the world – to help creating real market competition for projects, give professionals from the developing world an opportunity to work on aid projects in their own countries, support NGOs and donor agencies to attract and recruit the best-and-brightest, and informing a global industry.
Today, 500,000 professionals choose Devex for international development business, careers, and news. Our global staff – 100 innovative professionals in 5 global offices – is working tirelessly to support you, the professionals who serve the poor.
The Co-Founder and President of Devex, Raj Kumar, has been profiled in the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Forbes, and the Washington Post , where Devex was called the Bloomberg of foreign aid. Beginning as a student project while he was doing graduate studies at the Harvard Kennedy School, today Devex operates the world’s most popular international development website (www.devex.com) and has offices in five countries and a global staff of 100. Raj and his colleagues at Devex are working to make foreign aid more efficient. Prior to Devex, he co-founded a successful internet start-up, SmartPortfolio.com, which was sold to TheStreet.com in 2000. Raj was also Principal and Political Director of Penn Schoen Berland, the political consulting firm. He was a strategist for campaigns in the U.S. and around the world, including presidential elections in Venezuela, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Israel, and Ukraine (where he conducted exit polling during the Orange Revolution). Raj worked for the White House as a member of the national advance team for President Clinton. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a speaker and writer on issues of global development and social entrepreneurship, and appears as a guest analyst in the media.
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