Brunei Darussalam

Economist

A governance and M&E expert with a background in financial and sociological economics, I have more than 30 years of experience in programme management, policy development and M&E in a variety of fields including research, review and assessment in the areas of public administration reform, justice & home affairs, finance, regional development, as well as sectoral restructuring.
My professional experience covering 30 years has been gained in developing economies and economies in transition in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, for a large number of international bi- and multilateral organizations, including DfID, Dutch Development Cooperation, EU, FAO, IFC, GIZ, Norwegian Aid and UNDP.
I have more than 15 years of M&E experience encompasses both leading M&E assignments in the field and the development of M&E systems. A specialty concerns the identification and formulation of key performance indicators, including researching baseline data and the framing of benchmarks. I am fully conversant with project cycle management methodology, as well the latest development in M&E, including results-chain and theory-of-change.
I have highly developed interview skills gained in a variety of cultural settings, which combined with outstanding documentation review and statistical skills, are honed to arrive at sophisticated analytical results. I know how to deliver high-quality, user-friendly M&E reports, which effectively collocate and present the contributions and findings of professionals with widely varying backgrounds and fields of expertise. 

Global Gateway Contact Point at the Delegation of the EU to Singapore

Dr. Guilain Mathe is a political scientist with more than 18 years of professional experience in policy-oriented research, as well as in the management of international cooperation programmes. He holds a PhD in Peace and Security Studies and has specific competencies as a Strategic Planning and Result Based Management Expert, having extensively provided his expertise to numerous monitoring and evaluation of peace and security programmes implemented in African countries. Dr Mathe has very solid skills in project monitoring and evaluation aimed at strengthening capabilities of public authorities and security institutions. His areas of expertise relate to: Transnational Organised Crime (illicit trafficking in arms, persons, drugs, falsified medical products, and natural resources); Security Sector Reform (SSR), Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE), Human Rights, Stabilization & Recovery, and Institutional development & Capacity-building. Additionally, he is used to working on sensitive issues and in politically, economically, and culturally fragmented societies, having conducted missions in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on Central and West African countries. He has overseen the monitoring of the project "Enhancing National Institutions for setting-up the indicators system on firearms control » in Niger and Mauritania. Furthermore, Dr. Mathe has developed training modules and provided technical advice to high-level public officials and international donors for improving the efficiency of development cooperation projects, besides being a multilingual expert proficient in English, French, Swahili, and Lingala. For example, he has led numerous Result-Oriented Monitoring missions (ROM review) for assessing large-scale projects funded by the EU in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the EU interventions aimed at strengthening the capacity of the G5 Sahel Joint Force to fight against terrorism and other related forms of transnational organized crime in the Sahel.