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Project Coordination

Project coordinators are at the heart of our work, planning, managing and developing our field projects. They work to ensure that all departments work together to provide high quality care, whatever the needs. 

Natural leaders with great diplomatic and organisational skills, project coordinators are often the glue that binds an MSF operation together.

Read the blog posts below to find out more about life as an MSF project coordinator, or click here to find out more about applying to join the team.

A community group meeting
Noor Cornelissen, MSF project coordinator
Noor Cornelissen
Project Coordination
Who said he wanted a fish anyway?
In Chad, an MSF pilot project is taking a new approach to humanitarian aid. Project coordinator Noor tells us more…
20 Apr 2022 / 6 minute read
MSF staff and community members sit on the floor in a discussion circle
Noor Cornelissen, MSF project coordinator
Noor Cornelissen
Project Coordination
Chad: 'Listening can save lives'
When an emergency hits, our teams are experts at providing fast, high quality healthcare. But what happens in a chronic crisis? How can we work with communities to improve health in the long term? Noor is part of an innovative pilot project that's taking a new approach...
21 Mar 2022 / 4 minute read
Benjamim Mwangombe, MSF Project Coordinator
Benjamim Mwangombe
Project Coordination
Nigeria: "Children are no longer dying of lead poisoning in Zamfara"
In 2010, MSF received an alert. Children dying in alarming numbers, with no clear cause. A team were sent to investigate, beginning a project that was to last for the next twelve years...
11 Feb 2022 / 5 minute read
Child with an amputated arm
Gilles Clairoux
Project Coordination
Central African Republic: Facing the horrific
The people of the Central African Republic have faced years of violence and insecurity. Project coordinator Gilles shares the story of just two of them...
18 Jan 2022 / 3 minute read
Mamman outside the MSF hospital in Afghanistan
Mamman Mustapha, MSF project coordinator
Mamman Mustapha
Project Coordination
Nine months in Afghanistan
When Mamman Mustapha joined the MSF team in Afghanistan, it was for a short assignment in a ‘relatively quiet' part of the country. Nine months later he had witnessed an escalating conflict, a change in government and a growing humanitarian crisis.
17 Jan 2022 / 6 minute read
Mohammed Dikko Abdullahi
Mohammed Dikko Abdullahi
Project Coordination
“I could see the joy on their faces”: Life-saving care in northern Nigeria
Mohammed Dikko Abdullahi works for MSF in his hometown of Maiduguri, a city of relative security in a region which has faced over a decade of violence. He shares the story of a young family and the medical care that saves lives.
10 Aug 2021 / 6 minute read
An explosion in Gaza
Aymen
Aymen al Djaroucha
Project Coordination
Gaza: “Night and day, what we are living through is terrifying”
After weeks of tensions in occupied East Jerusalem, which has been illegally annexed by Israel, fighting has broken out once again between the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups, principally Hamas. Project coordinator Aymen al Djaroucha shares his experience from Gaza.
19 May 2021 / 4 minute read
Ijaz
Ijaz Zarin
Project Coordination
Pakistan: “Every end is a new beginning”
MSF coordinator Ijaz Zarin shares his memories from more than a decade working at a life-saving project in Timergara, Pakistan
04 Mar 2021 / 6 minute read
Maman Mustafa, MSF project coordinator
Mamman Mustapha, MSF project coordinator
Mamman Mustapha
Project Coordination
South Sudan: Challenging times in Old Fangak
Mamman's MSF assignment in South Sudan was only meant to last nine months, but a series of unexpected events meant he stayed for almost twice that. He shares the story...
17 Sep 2020 / 7 minute read
Transport mit dem Eselkarren in Burkina Faso
Hassan Maïyaki
Project Coordination
Violence, hunger and now COVID-19: The threats facing Burkina Faso
The West African country of Burkina Faso is facing fast-growing humanitarian crisis with hundreds of thousands displaced by violence now threatened by COVID-19. Project manager Hassan explains how our teams on the ground are preparing for the pandemic and what is particularly important now...
21 Apr 2020 / 5 minute read
Carlotta Berutti, coordinator of MSF's COVID-19 project in Lodi province, northern Italy, outside Codogno hospital.
Dr Chiara Lepora
Chiara Lepora
Project Coordination
"Everybody is working beyond their limits": Inside the COVID-19 response in northern Italy
MSF medical teams have joined the fight against COVID-19 as the new coronavirus disease spreads to more than 190 countries. Project coordinator Chiara shares her experience working alongside Italian doctors and nurses on the frontline of the pandemic in northern Italy. 
30 Mar 2020 / 4 minute read
The Ebola treatment centre in Katwa was torched just days before a similar attack in Butembo.
Trish Newport - MSF
Trish Newport
Project Coordination
 “We’re being attacked in the Ebola treatment centre": Reflections after the fire
In the wake of an armed attack on an Ebola treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo, aid workers were pushed to radically rethink their approach to the disease. MSF emergency coordinator Trish Newport shares the lessons learned – and their importance for future responses. 
09 Mar 2020 / 6 minute read
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