Kyle Jacques Email & Phone Number

Gedaref, Sudan

Khartoum, Sudan

New York

South Sudan

• Led research component of programme feasibility assessment for Danish Refugee Council (DRC) peaceful coexistence and community stabilization programming in South Sudan
• Participated in technical meetings with key DRC staff and co-facilitated Theory of Change workshop to determine locations for data collection and prepare research tools for qualitative study
• Conducted key informant interviews and focus group discussions with community members and key project stakeholders in targeted communities
• Prepared inception report and final data analysis report summarizing key research findings and preliminary recommendations for peaceful coexistence programming in South Sudan

Toronto, Canada And Quito, Ecuador

• Conducted key informant interviews with government officials and academics in Quito, Ecuador for research on government-led climate change mitigation initiative
• Co-wrote two academic papers on research findings, focusing on feasibility of internationally-funded programs to ban oil extraction in biodiversity hotspots

Toronto, Canada And Ramallah, West Bank

• Prepared report on Palestinian cash transfer program, with focus on beneficiary targeting mechanisms and implications for evidence-based development programming
• Carried out desk review of relevant program components, and conducted key informant interviews with project stakeholders in the West Bank

Toronto, Canada And Abuja, Nigeria

• Developed monitoring and evaluation indicators for justice sector reform project in collaboration with Rule of Law Advisor to the Vice President of Nigeria
• Designed and introduced updated data collection forms to investigative department of Nigeria Police Force
• Trained police staff in basic data analysis and visualization, and presented prototype monitoring indicators to police officials in Abuja, Nigeria

Toronto, Canada Area

• Advised Government of Ontario on design of new Office of Inspector General of Police, in line with wider provincial police accountability reform agenda
• Researched and prepared report on global best practices in private and public sector inspection frameworks, with emphasis on lessons for police accountability context
• Proposed and provided analysis on potential performance metrics and indicators for measuring improvements in police service effectiveness and accountability

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Monitored development, implementation and evaluation of over 30 IOM capacity-building projects in Department of Migration Management
• Maintained correspondence with IOM regional and field offices to collaboratively draft and edit project development and implementation reports
• Carried out comprehensive update of division’s project output database, consolidating key indicators from over 100 projects to aid with statistical analyses and outreach

• Conducted qualitative research work for book on history of socialist thought, writing literature reviews and briefings on research findings
• Created and maintained online database of referenced research sources, and compiled index for final published book

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science, First Class Honours

Master Of Global Affairs