FRANCAISMedical Emergency Relief International - Comments
2) The way it works
-Merlin has become more professional since the early days of the organisation when it mostly employed volunteers. According to Geoff Prescott, executive director of Merlin, it employed in 2003 more than 1,300 local paid workers, about thirty persons at the London headquarters and a hundred expatriates, of which 60% weren’t British. Though working in regions of armed conflict, the organisation has never had violent deaths amongst its staff, except a worker killed in a traffic accident in Liberia in December 2003.
-After some initial tensions with NGOs working in the same field, Merlin today claims to enjoy good relations with Oxfam, Action Against Hunger and SCF. In Liberia and in Kashmir, in particular, it cooperated with MSF-Holland.
