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
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
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
Dear donors, December 10, 2024
On November 18, MCNV celebrated its 56th anniversary! What an ‘old age’ for the last country committee in The Netherlands still alive. Thanks in part to your loyal support, we can continue our work in the coming years and provide help where it is (still) indispensable.
These are our plans for 2025
Laos: together in action for clean water, hygiene and food security in Laos, 2025 – 2026 – 2027
Last October, we received the green light from the AFAS-Foundation to continue for another three years in Sepone, Nong and a new municipality of Phin. The program ‘Together in action for clean water, hygiene and food security in Laos’ will start in January 2025 and that is great news and very important for the people who lack clean water and where the food supply is insecure.
Vietnam: improve income and further develop rehabilitation training
Improving livelihoods is complex and requires a multi-faceted approach. For example, creating jobs for women is a point of attention. Improving food yields and introducing different and more suitable agricultural products also receive full attention. Jobs and income are inextricably linked and hence the broad approach that MCNV supports and develops together with local partners and the people themselves.
Partly thanks to financial support from USAID (United States Agency for International Development), MCNV has been able to set up two national training courses over the past four years: Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy. These two disciplines did not previously exist in Vietnam and they now form an important part of care for children and people with disabilities. University-trained Occupational Therapists and Speech Therapists provide training for healthcare workers in various provinces throughout Vietnam.
Collaboration between MCNV, local partners, donors and donor organizations
MCNV develops its activities based on demand from and in collaboration with local partners. Donors and partners such as the AFAS-Foundation and USAID recognize the expertise that MCNV has built up and therefore contribute substantially to projects in Vietnam and Laos. One of the conditions for this support is that MCNV must guarantee a percentage, for example 20% or 25% of the total program budget. We can only meet this obligation because we receive donations from our private donors in The Netherlands. That is why I would like to let you know once again that all donations, no matter how small or large, are crucial to the implementation of our work for the benefit of the people in Vietnam and Laos!
Our question to you
MCNV wants to continue the above projects and programs in both countries in 2025 with the aim of further strengthening the care and well-being of vulnerable people. An important and wonderful mission in which the involvement of our donors in the Netherlands is and will remain indispensable.
Many thanks for your (extra) gift.
Beautiful December month & with kind regards,
Karin Vlug
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.
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
On October 9th, 2024, through the provincial Women’s Union, a delegation from the Medical Committee Netherlands – Vietnam (MCNV) visited Yen Bai province and provided support to 100 households that were severely affected by Typhoon Yagi in September 2024.
As part of the working trip, MCNV visited and directly provided assistance to 10 families, including 3 households of persons with disabilities, who suffered significant losses in Tran Yen district, Yen Bai province. Each package included 5 million VND in cash and a rice cooker.
The beneficiaries are low-income households, including a person with disability living alone in a remote and difficult-to-access areas. Their sole source of income is agriculture. The widespread flooding and massive landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi resulted in substantial losses to both their homes and their livelihoods.
MCNV handovers 90 rice cookers to Yen Bai Women’s Union.
In addition to providing direct aid to 10 affected households, MCNV also handed over 90 rice cookers to the Yen Bai Women’s Union. These cookers will be distributed to 90 other affected households in the province in October 2024.
MCNV hopes these small gifts will support local people as they rebuild their lives after the natural disasters. On this occasion, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the People’s Committee of Yen Bai province, relevant departments, and especially the provincial Women’s Union for facilitating this partnership and wholeheartedly cooperating with us to connect the support from Dutch donors with those in need.
MCNV Chief of Representative Office in Vietnam, Mr. Pham Dung, hands over post-disaster relief aid to 5 households affected by Typhoon Yagi at the People’s Committee of Viet Cuong commune, Tran Yen district.
Yen Bai province is one of the hardest hit by Yagi typhoon in September 2024. According to the Vietnam News, the whole province had over 22,000 damaged houses; nearly 18,700 flooded houses, of which nearly 4,000 houses in Tran Yen district. In the agricultural sector, the province over 4,000ha of crops were damaged and affected. Nearly 2,000 livestock and poultry died, over 100ha of fish ponds were washed away.
(Source: https://vietnamnews.vn/society/1662764/northern-province-yen-bai-held-urgent-meeting-at-night-on-overcoming-typhoon-yagi-s-consequences.html)
Damages caused by Yagi typhoon in Tran Yen district, Yen Bai province. Photo taken on October 9, 2024/MCNV.
MCNV & Yen Bai province:
For over a decade (2006-2016), MCNV supported Tran Yen district, Yen Bai province, through an HIV prevention program, including the establishment of the ‘Sunflower Network’- a system of clubs for women living with HIV, aimed at raising awareness, combating stigma, providing knowledge on infection prevention, and supporting livelihoods.
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