Since the signature of the 2004 Peace Agreement, the ICRC has gradually adapted its activities to support the rehabilitation and rebuilding process in Liberia: from the direct assistance provided during the conflict, the ICRC has shifted its approach towards public services in terms of support and capacity building. It has concentrated on developing Liberian capacities in health, food security and water and sanitation (i.e. with adequate training, technical support and tools).

The ICRC is also particularly involved in the dissemination of international humanitarian law to the army, the police, and UN contingents as well as to private security companies.

The ICRC also supports the Liberia National Red Cross Society in carrying out preventive work targeting young people, and helps the organization build its capacity in tracing and disaster management.

Personnel (2009): 206, including 19 expatriates

Our world. Your move. in Liberia

Liberia: football helps heal the scars of a brutal past

Campaign page on icrc.org

Campaign portal: ourworld-yourmove.org

The year 2009 has great significance for the ICRC and the entire Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: it marks the 150th anniversary of the battle of Solferino and the 60th anniversary of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949. In observance of these anniversaries, the Movement has launched a campaign, Our world. Your move, to remind everyone of his or her individual responsibility to lessen human suffering.

Liberia is one of the countries being highlighted as part of the campaign. It is still recovering from a 14-year civil war that uprooted thousands of families and devastated the country's economy.