Jérome Helfft

Jérôme is a design, monitoring, and evaluation (M&E) expert with 20 years of professional experience in a wide range of fields: migration and forced displacement, peacebuilding, post-emergency, poverty reduction, and innovation. He has an extensive track record in designing and implementing evaluation processes and monitoring systems at project, program, or institutional levels, notably using results-based approaches. Jerome has conducted or managed about 50 evaluation processes and various research studies, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Jerome has several years of field experience in Asia, Africa, and South America. His skill set also includes project management and strategic planning.

In his recent experience at the headquarters of UNHCR, he developed, in collaboration with key internal and external actors, a monitoring framework for programs geared toward finding durable solutions for forcibly displaced populations. He led a lessons-learned exercise to reflect on multi-year, multi-partner strategic planning processes in seven pilot countries and conducted programmatic analysis on durable solutions projects. As head of Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation at international NGOs’ headquarters in the United States (Search for Common Ground and the International Center for Transitional Justice), Jerome put in place various organization-wide tools, strengthened methodologies, and enhanced the quality of evaluation processes and reports, developed indicator database, guidance on evaluation approaches and standardized monitoring tools. He supervised all evaluations and provided technical assistance to the country and thematic programs on project design and implementation of M&E plans as well.

Examples of his recent roles with INOMER include working as a team member for the technology needs assessment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the UNOPS/UN Technology Bank for LDCs, the external assessment of the public R&D institutions in Serbia for the Serbian Government under a World Bank-funded project, the evaluation of a UNESCO project to strengthen STI systems in six African countries funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the evaluation of the impact of the Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FDCO) in Tanzania for UNDP. Jerome took part in various conference panels on monitoring and evaluation, taught Corporate Strategy at the University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle and M&E for Peacebuilding at American University in Washington, DC. Jerome speaks French, English, and Spanish.