[ingodirectors] Please Vote for INGO Representative at HPC

[Marko Lovrekovic]

Dear Colleagues,

We have received two nominations for the INGO Representative at the HIV 
Policy and Programme Coordination Group (HPC):

1. (Mr.) Matthew Tiedemann, Country Representative at Pact Vietnam;
2. (Ms.) Nguyen Thi Hong Nhung, Country Director at Voluntary Service 
Overseas (appointed).

Please cast your electronic vote by selecting one candidate and replying 
to <director at ngocentre.org.vn> before 15 August 2010. In order to make 
your decision easier, we have prepared short biographies for both 
candidates (below):

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Matthew Tiedemann has recently joined Pact Vietnam as Country 
Representative.  He brings over 15 years of HIV/AIDS and reproductive 
health experience, including six years of experience as country 
representative, managing large USAID/PEPFAR supported projects in Malawi 
and Tanzania. The portfolio in Malawi that Matthew launched and managed 
included a five-year technical assistance and capacity building project, 
a prevention project for most-at-risk populations, and an HIV prevention 
project for the general population. He also supported establishing and 
strengthening the capacity of a new, independent secretariat for the 
Malawi Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism. He and the technical 
team he led served on the Government of Malawi's HIV/AIDS technical 
working groups, and participated in several international NGO fora. 
Prior to his postings overseas, Matthew led FHI's Research to Practice 
Initiative, a multi-divisional effort to maximize the impact of 
reproductive health research. He also served as project director for the 
Healthy Adolescent Project in India and the Health of Adolescent 
Refugees Project in Egypt, Uganda, and Zambia, and coordinated FHI 
headquarters' activities in Egypt and Nepal. In the mid-1990s, Matthew 
coordinated a multi-year clinical and counselling training project in 
the former Soviet Union and taught an honours seminar in the Curriculum 
in International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill. He has worked with the National Democratic Institute for 
International Affairs in Washington, DC, coordinating training seminars 
and technical assistance for newly formed NGOs and political parties in 
the former Soviet Union, and with the Soros Foundation in New York 
coordinating assistance to nascent civil society organizations in the 
Soviet Union.

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Nguyen Thi Hong Nhung has been identified as the first national Country 
Director of the Voluntary Service Overseas in Vietnam. She will take up 
this position in January 2011, after intensive preparations in Vietnam, 
the UK and other VSO country programmes. Nhung has had 10 years 
experience, in Vietnam, working on different areas relating to HIV/AIDS 
prevention and mitigation; and sexual and reproductive health for 
adolescents and youth. Initially working in this area with Care 
International, she moved to VSO in 2005 and has been the HIV/AIDS 
programme manager since. In her professional working experience, Nhung 
has always played a crucial role in working with partners and 
stakeholders at different levels, from direct interventions and hands-on 
capacity building activities with target groups of the most vulnerable 
populations, such as people living with HIV, sex workers, injecting drug 
users, women and children who are affected by HIV, and youth practising 
high risk behaviours. Nhung also undertook the role of coordinator and 
capacity builder for different civil society organisations and CBOs 
working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, focusing on 
coordination, networking, programme development and management and 
advocacy. One of her main roles in VSO is partnership development, 
networking and linkage with many different stakeholders at different 
levels, including government agencies, mass organisations, UN agencies 
and INGOs (UNAIDS, UNODC, VAAC, DoH, PACs) and local authorities, 
Women's Union, Youth Union and different networks of CSOs and vulnerable 
groups (VCSPA, VNP+, LNGOs) and self help groups of PLHIV. Over time, 
Nhung has always showed her strong passion, commitment and dedication to 
the effort of fighting against HIV/AIDS especially stigma and 
discrimination against PLHIV, promoting and advocating for the rights of 
PLHIV and addressing exclusion with the aim of improving the quality of 
life for people who are infected and affected by HIV.


I look forward to receiving your vote before 15 August 2010. Thank you 
in advance!

Warm regards,

Marko

-- 
Marko Lovrekovic, Managing Co-Director
VUFO-NGO Resource Centre
La Thanh Hotel, 218  Doi Can
Hanoi, Vietnam
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