Julia is in the final weeks of her tenure as CEO at Primary Care International, where she has focused on growing the Oxford-based start-up into a leading social enterprise in primary healthcare, leading partnerships with a portfolio of clients whilst building a global team of staff and Associates alongside a strong, diverse and values-led Board of Directors who are all committed to innovative routes to creating positive social impact led by lived experience. With a background in community development and partnership building, and with a passion for planetary health, migration and refugee rights, Julia will, from September, be consulting with a portfolio of organisations, advising on a range of issues from co-creating learning and impact frameworks to developing social business models. She serves as a volunteer caseworker at the Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre and as a Trustee for the Aplastic Anaemia Trust. She has a BA in French with International Studies, an MSc in Development Management, and is a Clore Social and RSA Fellow.
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Is it time to radically rethink “capacity building”?
Amid talk of decolonising “international development”, there has been a discernible scrabble to change our language. This is useful but needs to be accompanied by radical changes to our practices, particularly when it comes to “capacity building”.