PROJECT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This project would not have been possible without the funding support and dedicated work from the following organizations.

We would like to thank all of these institutions for their contributions to the SALB Project.

	US Agency for International Development (USAID)	Most of the funding for the project is provided by USAID.
	World Health Organization (WHO)	Supervision, technical support, and initial funding have been provided by the Evidence and Information for Policy cluster (EIP). Additional funding has been provided by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) through the Family and Community Health cluster (FCH) at WHO HQ as well as by the Vaccine Preventable diseases  Immunization programme (DTR/VPI) at the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
	The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)	Funding has been provided by UNHCR to cover part of the technical work of the SALB project
	Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)	Technical support is being provided in the form of free licenses for the project.
	United Nations Economic Comission for Africa (UNECA)	Technical support is provided in the form of GIS technician working time dedicated to the editing process of the SALB database.
	United Nations Economic Comission for Latin America and the Carribeans (UNECLAC)	Technical support is provided in the form of GIS technician working time dedicated to the editing process of the SALB database.
	United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP)	Initial funding has been provided by UNOP in the context of the UN Geographic database project.
	University of Geneva	Technical support has been provided by allowing access to a sun station used as an ftp site for the project.
	GfK MACON AG	Country information has been provided in the form of one free copy of  Regiograph 5.1 (a mapping application including administrative and other boundaries). Macon also kindly provided the digital maps for Albania , Austria, Cyprus, Hungary , Lithuania, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.
	Eurogeographics	Country information has been provided in the form of evaluation licenses of the SABE and EuroGlobalMap data sets.
	Institut Géographique du Congo	Particular support has been provided by the "Institut Géographique du Congo" regarding information and data for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

We would also like to thank:

• The UN Cartographic Section for the help provided and for their effort in improving and maintaining the UN international boundaries template.

• Gwillim Law (http://www.statoids.com/statoids.html) for the time and information he dedicated to the SALB project.

• Yaniss Guigoz for the design of the SALB web site.

• Ms Djinn Pourkiani, Ms Victoria Eve Lvovna Judelson and Mr Oumar Cheikh Dieng at WHO/Geneva and Ms Lauren Paletta at OCHA Relief web/New York for the work provided in the context of their internship