Julie Younes joined Social Impact (SI) in 2018 and currently serves as a Technical Director in the Strategy, Performance, and Learning (SPL) division. She has over 15 years of experience working on design, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), learning, and capacity building for international development programs in multiple geographic regions, with expertise in peacebuilding, youth development, democracy and governance, gender, and education sectors.
At SI, Julie works with international development clients to integrate innovative qualitative methodologies, including participatory approaches, to ensure utilization and inclusion of all project stakeholders. This encompasses activities such as leading co-design processes for new development projects, managing a youth-led evaluation, or implementing a participatory analysis workshop to engage audiences in “sense-making” of assessment findings. Julie also has extensive experience conducting trainings, workshops, and coaching to build capacity of project teams to implement M&E.
Julie holds a Master of Arts from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where her degree focused on Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation for International Development Programs and International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. She speaks English and French.