Julian Murray has more than 40 years of progressively more responsible assignments in international development and humanitarian assistance, including 2 years with NGOs or serving as a teacher overseas, 4 years with UNHCR, 26 years on staff with CIDA, and 12 years independent consulting (63 assignments).
Field assignments – 18 years in 43 countries:
1 year in Algeria, 1 year in Malaysia, 2 years in Sudan, 7 years in Indonesia and 3 years in Sri Lanka; as well as 4-6 month assignments in Nepal, Singapore, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Tanzania, and missions or (under COVID) remote assignments in Ukraine x 7, Rwanda x 4, DRC x 4, Pakistan x 7, Turkey x 4, Lebanon x 4, Central African Republic x 2, Haiti x 2, Barbados x 2, Afghanistan x 3, Uganda x 2, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Trinidad, Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda, South Sudan, Ghana, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Guinée, Niger, Chad, Burundi, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Syria and Myanmar.
Evaluation consultancy:
Since 2013 conducted 33 humanitarian evaluations/QA assignments and 14 development evaluations, including on the humanitarian side: (1) review of humanitarian protection funding for the Global Protection Cluster (team leader), (2) Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of Typhoon Haiyan (team member and report editor), (3) evaluation of UNHCR's programme in Turkey (team member and report author), (4) evaluation of the Solutions Alliance (team member and report editor), (5) After Action Review for UNDP of the Ebola response in Guinée and Sierra Leone (team leader), (6) country case study for WFP in Cambodia (team member), (7) evaluability assessment for the Canadian Red Cross (team member and report author), (8) evaluation of UNHCR’s program in Ukraine (co-team leader, quality assurance and report author), (9) evaluation of the early recovery outcomes of UNDP’s strategic plan, with case studies in Nepal and Ukraine (team member and component report author), (10) evaluation of the UNDP-led Early Recovery Cluster, with case studies in Central African Republic and Haiti (team leader), (11) After Action Review of UNDP’s response to hurricanes Irma and Maria in the Caribbean (team leader), (12) evaluation of ECHO’s programmes for Syrians in Turkey (co-team leader and report author), (13) evaluation of Canada’s Humanitarian Assistance (senior advisor) with a Rohingya case study, (14) evaluation of ECHO’s programmes in Central Africa (team member and CAR case study leader), (15) evaluation of EC programming (FRiT 1) in Turkey (protection expert and quality assurance), (16) the evaluation of WFP’s People Strategy (team member and case study leader for Sudan, Burundi and Chad), (17) After Action Review UNDP Hurricane Idai (team leader), (18) the evaluation of ECHO’s Ukraine programme 2014-2018 (team leader), (19) performance review of Global Affairs Canada’s Peace and Security programmes in Haiti, Ukraine and Colombia (team leader), (20) the strategic review of Lebanon’s Crisis Response Plan (team leader), (21) the After-Action Review of UNDP’s response to the Beirut port explosion in Lebanon (team leader), (22) QA for the evaluation of ECHO’s response to epidemics, (23) review of UNDP’s tension monitoring system in Lebanon (team leader), (24) team leader UNDP AAR in Pakistan, (25) deputy team leader for UNICEF evaluation in Ukraine, (26) QA for the evaluation of ECHO’s response in Central Africa, (27) team leader UNDP AAR Turkey and Syria, (28) team leader FAO evaluation Ukraine, (29) QA for assessment of UNHCR climate readiness, (30) team leader for the evaluation of a UNDP gender mainstreaming project in Lebanon, (31) QA for evaluation of UNICEF L3 Sudan, (32) evaluation of UNDP Myanmar, and (33) QA for the evaluation of DG ECHO in Afghanistan.
Strategic planning and project design:
Since 2013, conducted 14 strategic planning assignments (five multi-year country strategies for UNHCR, a management modernisation plan for the OAS, strategic plan for the Community of Democracies, an RBM system for International IDEA, a multi-year strategy for Global Affairs Canada, five management advisory consultancies with GAC), and designed or redesigned five Canadian-funded development projects.