International Committee For Red Cross - ICRC

International Committee For Red Cross - ICRC:-

Formation              17 February 1863; 153 years ago
Type                       Private humanitarian organization
Headquarters          Geneva, Switzerland
Region served        Worldwide
Fields                      Humanitarianism
President                 Peter Maurer
Vice Presadent        Christine Beerli
Director-General     Yves Daccord
Budget                     CHF 1110.2 million (2012)
                                180.7 m for headquarters
                                 929.4 m for field operations
Staff                        14,500 (average number of ICRC staff in 2015)
Website                  www.icrc.org

Organization:-

The ICRC's headquarter is in Geneva and it has external offices in more than 80 countries called Delegations. Each delegation is under the control of a Head of delegation, who is the official representative of the ICRC. Of its 2,000 professional employees, roughly 800 work in  Geneva headquarter and 1,200 work in the field. Half of the field workers serve as delegates managing ICRC operations, while the others are specialists like doctors, agronomists, engineers, or interpreters. In the delegations, the 
international staff are assisted by some 13,000 national employees, thus bringing the total staff  of the ICRC to almost 15,000. 

Directorate:-

The Directorate is the executive body of the Committee. It controls the management of the ICRC, whereas the Assembly is the  policy maker. The Directorate consists of a Director-General and five directors in the fields of:-
"Operations", 
"Human Resources", 
"Financial Resources and Logistics ", 
"Communication and Information Management", and 
"International Law and Cooperation within the Movement". 
The members of the Directorate serve for four years. 

Assembly:-

The Assembly (also called the Committee) convenes on a regular basis and is also responsible for defining objectives, guidelines, and strategies and for managing the financial matters of the Committee. 

-The Assembly has maximum of twenty-five Swiss citizens. 
-Members must speak the French, but many also speak English and German as well. 
-Members are co-opted for a period of four years.

Assembly Council:-

The Assembly elects a five-members Assembly Council The Council meets at least ten times per year. The Council is responsible for organizing the Assembly meetings and for facilitating communication between the Assembly and the Directorate. 

The Assembly Council  includes the president, two vice presidents and two elected members. 

The presidents of the ICRC have been:-

Henri Dunant                 1863–1864: 
Henri Dufour                  1863–1864: 
Gustave Moynier           1864–1910: 
Gustave Ador                 1910–1928: 
Max Huber                     1928–1944: 
Carl Jacob Burckhardt    1944–1948: 
Paul Ruegger                  1948–1955: 
Leopold Boissier             1955–1964: 
Samuel Gonard               1964–1969: 
Marcel Naville                 1969–1973: 
Eric Martin                      1973–1976: 
Alexandre Hay                1976–1987: 
Cornelio Sommaruga       1987–1999: 
Jakob Kellenberger          2000–2012: 
Peter Maurer  Since         2012: 


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