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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.

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
Maman Mustafa, 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
Trish Newport - MSF
Trish Newport
Project Coordination
Ebola: “Unless change happens, the outbreak isn’t going to end”
One year since the start of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the epidemic not only still raging, it has become the second-worst in world history. Trish Newport, deputy coordinator of MSF’s Ebola response, reflects on the epidemic and the fight to contain it...
01 Aug 2019 / 7 minute read
The MSF team distribute essential items to people affected by the 2016 disasters
Ijaz
Ijaz Zarin
Project Coordination
Looking back : Responding the 2016 earthquake in Pakistan
In 2016 a double disaster struck the communities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in northern Pakistan. Ijaz Zarin was part of the MSF team working to save lives after the district was hit by devastating flooding and then, just days later, an earthquake. He shares his experience...
11 Apr 2019 / 6 minute read
Sergio Scro
Project Coordination
Pakistan: Finding perspective in Chaman
Sergio is a project coordinator from Italy, currently working with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Pakistan. After six months of unplanned “remote management” from a base in Islamabad, in this blog he finally arrives at his project in the town of Chaman, on the border with Afghanistan.
22 Nov 2018 / 3 minute read
Vincent Kimui Ndichu
Vincent Kimui Ndichu
Project Coordination
Karachi Biryani: A meal loved by everyone….
Our teams work incredibly hard to provide vital healthcare. In Pakistan, this important work is fueled by a desire to save lives, and one other key ingredient. Vincent blogs...
21 Nov 2018 / 6 minute read
Chamman
Sergio Scro
Project Coordination
Pakistan: Remote management and future plans
An MSF project coordinator oversees everything from security to construction, allowing the medics to focus on saving lives. But what happens when a project coordinator can't reach their project? Sergio blogs...
29 Oct 2018 / 2 minute read
Tariq Khan and an MSF colleague
Tariq Khan MSF
Tariq Khan
Project Coordination
Pakistan: “I am happy that I am somehow helping my people”
Tariq is a project coordinator assistant at a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Chaman, a town on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan. In this blog, he shares how he is proud to help the people of his hometown.
09 Oct 2018 / 2 minute read
Lucie Gueuning MSF
Lucie Gueuning
Project Coordination
MSF REACH: The new project that could help MSF act faster in an emergency
Lucie Gueuning, from Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)’s Emergency Support Unit, writes about an innovative new project that will help our teams rapidly respond to reach those in need.
05 Oct 2018 / 11 minute read
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