VACANCY: CONSULTANT FOR THE DISABILITIES PROGRAM
Dear all,
MCNV is a Dutch-based NGO, with an international network working in the fields of health development, social inclusion, livelihood development in responding to climate change, and value chain. During the last 20 years, support for people with disabilities (PWD) has become a main program with high priority of MCNV in Vietnam. Since 2022, MCNV has been implementing a project of improving the quality of life of people with disability (PWD) in provinces of Quang Tri, Quang Nam, and Hue City. The project focuses on providing PWD with rehabilitation services and home-based care. We are looking for 01 Consultant (working in Quang Nam).
For more details of each position’s tasks, please refer to the Job Description documents attached.
If you are interested in these job opportunities, please email your application letter and CV to nhung.vuhong@mcnv.vn and mcnv@mcnv.vn, quoting the position title in the email’s subject line.
The application deadline is 17:00, June 15, 2025.
JD of Quang Nam Field Staff June 2025
VACANCY: MONITORING AND EVALUATION OFFICER
Dear all,
MCNV is a Dutch-based NGO, with an international network working in the fields of health development, social inclusion, livelihood development in responding to climate change, and value chain. During the last 20 years, support for people with disabilities (PWD) has become a main program with high priority of MCNV in Vietnam. Since 2022, MCNV has been implementing a project of improving the quality of life of people with disability (PWD) in provinces of Quang Tri, Quang Nam, and Hue City. The project focuses on providing PWD with rehabilitation services and home-based care.
We are looking for: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer: 01 (working in Ha Noi).
For more details of each position’s tasks, please refer to the Job Description documents attached.
If you are interested in these job opportunities, please email your application letter and CV to nhung.vuhong@mcnv.vn and mcnv@mcnv.vn, quoting the position title in the email’s subject line.
The application deadline is 17:00, June 15, 2025.
VACANCY: PROJECT EVALUATION CONSULTANT FOR BIJPO PROJECT
MCNV is currently looking for Project Evaluation Consultant for BIJPO Project.
You can find the information in details in the Job Description attached.
If you are interested in the position, please send your application letter & CV to mcnvcvn@mcnv.vn.
Deadline: 2nd May, 2025
MCNV 2025 Campaign
Disabled, and still going to school
In recent decades, there has been an incredible improvement for children with disabilities and their
parents in the provinces where MCNV has given its support. All kinds of activities in the field of
education, patient associations, rehabilitation, but also support in improving the income of the
poorest families for basic necessities such as food, clothing and medicine.
We have continued this economic and educational approach and activities -from the beginning of
2000- to this day. As a result, children feel more accepted because they have acquired a place in
society, because they can communicate and exchange their experiences with peers in their own
village. The parents are also proud and see how important it is for the children to belong and no
longer be excluded.
Our plans for 2025 and 2026.
Building on the results of the project in 2023 and 2024, and to strengthen the impact and
sustainability of these results, MCNV and Hy Vong Special School Quy Nhon plan to continue their
collaboration in 2025 and 2026. The ultimate goal is to improve the quality of education for children
with disabilities at this school, but also for children with disabilities who live and go to school
elsewhere in Binh Dinh province. This can be achieved by joining forces and working closely with the
education sector and health services.
Objectives
• improve knowledge and skills in setting up early detection and providing appropriate help to
children and their families as early as possible;
• improve knowledge in the field of early detection and treatment for regular schools so that
children with disabilities can also be admitted;
• raise awareness in the communities and among local partners, school staff and educationists in
Binh Dinh province.
The organisational costs and management of the schools and rehabilitation centers are fully paid by
the Vietnamese (provincial) government. MCNV offers material support to these schools and
rehabilitation centers by providing the necessary resources and teaching materials for learning basic
skills such as reading, writing and playing. And by increasing the knowledge and skills of all those
involved – children, parents, school staff and local partners – we provide the breeding ground for a
caring environment.
In remote areas like Binh Dinh, the same problems are playing a role and it would be wonderful if we
could support more schools and children on their way to a hopeful and independent future with our
MCNV experience and MCNV approach!
Many thanks in advance for your (extra) donation!
Pham Dung, MCNV Director Vietnam & Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Education specialist MCNV
Vacacy: Project Finance Assistant
Dear all,
MCNV is a Dutch-based NGO working in the fields of health, social and livelihood development for disadvantage groups.
MCNV is seeking a qualified and motivated Project Finance Assistant (PFA) to join our team. The PFA will work under supervisory of the Finance Officer to ensure accurate and timely financial transactions and reporting of project.
For more details of the tasks for this position please refer to the Job Announcement attached.
If you are interested in this job opportunity, please email your application letter and CV to nhung.vuhong@mcnv.vn and mcnv@mcnv.vn, quoting the position title in the email’s subject line.
The application deadline is 17:00, April 10, 2025.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.
JD Financial Assistant Mar 2025
MCNV empowers 1,100 ethnic minority women in Phu Yen mountainous district
On January 3rd 2025, in La Hai township of Dong Xuan district, Phu Yen province, MCNV in collaboration with the People’s Committee of Dong Xuan District and the District’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) organized a year-end workshop to review activities of the project “Boosting Income and Jobs for Poor Women” (referred to as the BIJPO project).
The workshop was attended by the project management unit (including the People’s Committee, DARD, Department of Ethnic Affairs, Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, and the Women’s Union), leaders of people’s committees of the project communes, and representatives of women’s cooperative groups.
Mr. Pham Dung (left), Country Director of MCNV Vietnam, learns about the black snail farming model in Hamlet 1, Da Loc Commune, Dong Xuan District, Phu Yen Province.
The BIJPO project, implemented in the period of 2022 – 2025, covers 15 villages in 6 mountainous communes of Dong Xuan district. The project aims to improve income, create jobs, enhance agricultural production capacity, and reduce food insecurity for poor women in ethnic minority communities.
The project is funded by GSRD, Hulza, Wincloves and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands) and has financial contributions from the local authority. Key activities include: establishing and operating women’s cooperative groups specialized in agricultural and non-agricultural production and business; promoting household-level agricultural production activities; and supporting micro-entrepreneurs for food and agricultural supplies.
MCNV and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) of Dong Xuan district visit the Cooperative Group for Production and Processing of Coconut Products in Da Loc commune.
After more than two years of implementation, the BIJPO project has achieved many encouraging results. Nearly 1,100 women (exceeding the initial target of 600 women) from poor, near-poor, and disadvantaged households have improved their income and jobs, agricultural production conditions, and local food sources through the aforementioned activities.
The BIJPO project introduces diversity in the application of various production models tailored to natural conditions, local cultural practices, and the utilization of available resources. It also enhances capacity-building and empowers beneficiaries to take ownership of their progress.
The models implemented under the project are highly diverse, including community-based tourism, brocade weaving, plastic furniture knitting, livestock farming (pigs, cows, chickens, fish, black snails, etc.), cultivation (organic vegetable farming, fruit tree and forestry tree planting, bamboo planting, mushroom growing), acacia seedling nurseries, agricultural product processing, and more.
A greenhouse model in Xi Thoai hamlet, Xuan Lanh commune
In 2025, MCNV and the PMU of Dong Xuan district will focus on strengthening the management and operational capacity of women’s cooperative groups. The project partners will also work on scaling up best practices in agricultural and non-agricultural production, contributing to Dong Xuan District’s implementation of the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the 2021–2030 period.
In memoriam Dr. Nguyen Tuyen Quang (October 15, 1949 – November 13, 2024)
by Ron Marchand
On November 13, 2024, entomologist Dr. Nguyen Tuyen Quang passed away. From 1993 onwards he led a team of Vietnamese researchers for more than twenty years at the malaria field station established by MCNV in Khánh Phú, a village in the mountains 30 kilometers inland from Nha Trang, south central Vietnam.
Dr.Nguyen Tuyen Quang (left) and his colleagues work in a field station in Khanh Phu commune.
MCNV supported the Vietnamese malaria institutes at that time to see whether insecticide-treated mosquito nets would be a good alternative to DDT in the fight against malaria. The old-fashioned spraying of the walls in houses with DDT no longer worked well and purchasing the product abroad became too expensive.
Khánh Phú was one of the most malaria endemic places in Vietnam and the project studied all aspects of the epidemiology (human behaviour, mosquitoes, parasites and the environment) in great detail. Among other things, to find out whether the introduction of mosquito nets would not be counterproductive due to the loss of natural immunity build-up during childhood. In 1998, five years after the start of the study, malaria in the village had decreased by 80% and the people became healthier. However, it did not work against a malaria mosquito that lives deeper in the forest, a situation that was studied in depth by Quang and his colleagues from 2000 onwards to improve the situation further.
Numbers and measurements were sacred
Quang was chosen as team leader by his boss at the malaria institute, Dr. Nguyen Tho Vien, who, next to me, was the spiritual father of the project. This was a logical choice because Quang was one of the few who also spoke English, could write reports, but above all because he was very dedicated and good in data analysis. For both Vien and Quang, numbers and measurements were sacred – even if these were difficult to explain or contradicted expectations.
I remember the collaboration with Quang as special. We could spend days (sometimes nights) talking about malaria research, during which I learned a lot from him about the specific problems in Vietnam. The management of the Khanh Phu the project was a bit exceptional: everyone in the team could think along and participate in decision-making. Very different from the usual top-down approach in which ‘a boss decides everything and sends his soldiers into the field to do the hard work without getting credit for it’. Quang could identify well with the participatory MCNV approach and helped me to find the right balance to keep the team’s freedom while preserving the goodwill of far-away directors.
Ron Marchand worked for MCNV from 1990 – 2016
