Jérôme is a passionate evaluator and project designer that has evolved in the fields of international cooperation and social innovation. After his masters degree in international development, he has specialised, in his twenty years of experience, as an evaluation advisor and manager with multi-country/region evaluations, with a strong focus on capacity building of civil society organizations (CSO), and outcome evaluation. He has worked for four years as a Canadian volunteer in West Africa in various positions related to organizational development; has built and developed various tools for the assessment of CSOs using mixed methods. He considers himself a builder, and he is fond of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) tools and system building using innovation approaches including co-creation, co-experimentation and iterative design. Today, he is concerned in the design of adapted MEL strategies in a context of funding reduction for MEL volunteers and insecurity.
He has worked mainly in the areas of international cooperation, urban innovation, early childhood community development, agro-ecology and value chain management. He favours collective approaches, capacity building and performance evaluation, horizontal leadership, team spirit, humility, knowledge sharing, enabling collective intelligence, using simple but powerful visual tools.
Jerome will be speaking on day two of the conference in the breakout session on Building Resilient programmes through volunteering, where he will be sharing experiences, methodology and tools of an innovative and successful organizational diagnosis methodology oriented to improve volunteers’ pivotal role in strengthening civil society partner organizations.
