Mohamed Yassein







Youth Development and Participatory Research Lead

Yassein has over 13 years of experience as a development practitioner, participatory researcher, and learning designer. His experience covers youth development and participation programming, designing capacity development programs, setting up youth enabling spaces, using qualitative and participatory methods in social research, facilitating Participatory Action Research (PAR), conducting participatory evaluations and impact assessments of development projects, and analyzing youth policies.

Yassein has collaborated with multiple national, regional, and international organizations – such as UN Women, UNDP, Save the Children, GIZ and Plan international – in fields of child rights, adolescents development, youth empowerment, youth organizing, civic leadership, social accountability and gender equality across MENA countries.

Yassein holds an MA degree in Participation, Power and Social Change (2016) from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

Countries of experience: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, and Saudi Arabia.


Research

Directory of Arabic Resources and Content on Youth Development

Learning

Knowledge Fair  Research Methods and Skills for Young Researchers and Development Practitioners

Consultancy

Evaluation of Calidon Game Indicators for children’s Life Skills Evaluation of Amani Game Indicators for Children’s Cyber security Participatory Development of MEAL system and tools for Schools Transformation Journey Program Development and delivery of a Training Package on Meaningful Engagement of Forcibly Displaced Youth in youth employment programmes Impact Assesmment of El Rehla’s work Assessing Relevance, Effeciency, Impact and Scalability of Schools Transformation Journney Gender and Power Analysis of Adolescents and Youth Country landscape and Investment Agenda (Generation Unlimited) Final evaluation of Syrian adolescents programme (SAP) UN volunteers retreat Dababsa Lab (Developing youth’s resesearch skills) Cultural Alliances Regional Workshop Applying PAR methodology in planning, learning, monitoring and evaluation Capacity development program to Ministry of Youth and Sports staff Lazord international conference Facilitating reflection workshop with Al Bawasala Project Mapping of SGBV services and referral responses in Greater Cairo Analytical mapping study of informal youth-led platforms in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen and Turkey Training youth-led initiatives in Alexandria Baseline assessment study of 20 youth centers in 11 governorates Social initiatives training Mid-term technical evaluation: supporting the culture of play in Egypt project

Publications

Using Participatory Action Research (PAR) as participatory evaluation and learning methodology: the case of “Arts for All” Project (2019 – 2022) Annotated Bibliography for participatory tools and methods in arts and culture