Bernard Habima, Kigali Rwanda  https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernard-habimana-msc-mph-2a137b6b/ 

Area of project assignment: Public Finance Management, Private sector development, Macroeconomics, Gender Analysis, Agriculture, Health, Energy, Food System. 

·       Bernard Habimana has a proven professional experience of more than 12 years in statistical research and impact assessment, including the development of evaluation questions, conducting desk review analysis, interviews and field work.

Familiarity with the EU contractual, deliverables, terms and conditions, EU  evaluation questions and judgment criteria, reporting formats, reporting and dissemination

Nationality: Rwanda 

 Educational Backgrounds

• BSc Economics( Quantitative Economics)
• MSc Development Studies
• Master of Public Health (Specialization in Monitoring and Evaluation)

The Latest successful completed evaluations and studies: 

•        Evaluation  Specialist/ Key Expert, 2024

     Endline impact assessment of the World Bank Energy Access Quality Improvement Projects (EAQIP) in Rwanda https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/procurement-detail/OP00141870 design of sample size and field data collection plan, preparation and review of assessment tools, involvement of stakeholders and World Bank along the process. Presentation of the findings and communicate of the lessons learned. 

• January 2023- July 2023 – M&E Specialist/Evaluation consultant. Public finance project 

Rwanda Revenue Authority(RRA)-US / US Department of the Treasury -OTA fiscal administration project Endline Evaluation in Rwanda.Project: fiscal administration project Endline Evaluation in Rwanda.
Conducting and record / interview notes and record interviews and data entry.Conducting data analysis, including quality assurance of transcriptions, translations. Conduct interviews and data collection both virtually and in-person.Collect and anlyse qualitative and quantitative data including using the Atlas ti.

•  June 2021- September 2022 – KEY Expert 2- Evaluation

Project: EU - Ex-post evaluation of the Basket Fund to support the implementation of the Second National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS2) by the National Institute for Statistics of Rwanda (NISR)- (evaluated period: 2014-2018)

As an economist, with specific focus on macroeconomics indicators( labor statistcs, Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey-EICV- trends and factors in poverty reduction in Rwanda. Worked with the EU Programme Estimate recipients included NISR, RDB, other national statistical system (NSS) stakeholders and Development partners including WB to assessing the EU support towards the production of reliable and policy oriented statistics and investment promotion in Rwanda. Assessed the progress towards WB Statistical Capacity Indicators (SCI) dashboard and the IMF SDDS. Analyze the key evidences related  to EU Programme Estimate in producing the reliable statistics including Seasonal Agricultural Survey (SAS), EICV6 and Labor Force Survey to establish the trends in poverty and unemployment reduction.

Further achievement;

• Organized and conducted the KI Interviews with the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and National Statistical System (NSS) members (NISR, MINAGRI, RAB, MINCOFIN, MOH, MINEDUC, RURA)
• Conducted desk researches
• Analysed and conducted review of effectiveness, efficient, relevance of census and surveys conducted by the NISR during the period under review;
  • Agricultural production data - the Seasonal Agricultural Survey - for all three agricultural seasons (A, B and C) about land use, crop land, agricultural inputs, agricultural practises and production

• March 2019- 30 November 2019 - European Union EU Budget support  Evaluation  - ( Consultant)

Researcher in charge of Evaluation for the European Union Budget support Strategic Evaluation, Responsible for Statistical data collection to track trends from 2011-2018   in Agriculture and Energy in Rwanda, to measure the performance indicators for the sector interventions      

Project: European Union strategic Evaluation of the Evaluation of EU Budget Support to Rwanda (2011-2018).

As an economist, with specific focus on development, labour market analysis, and inequality/poverty mappings. I worked with key stakeholders such as MINECOFIN, NISR, NBR and WB to analyze the key evidences related to poverty conditions in Rwanda: Poverty profile in Rwanda, Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (or Enquête Intégrale sur les Conditions de Vie des ménages, EICV) and Labor force survey(LFS). Analyzed macroeconimic indicators related to poverty reduction policy responses including extreme poverty, unemployment, inequality - Gini coefficients - urban/rural, infilation, consumers proce index  Literacy rates, gender of household head, Youth in extreme poverty, to better understand the underlying causes of worsened situation in terms of poverty, and on that basis come up with policy response.

Further achievement;

• Responsible for Statistical data collection to track trends from 2011-2018 in Agriculture and Energy in Rwanda, to measure the performance indicators for the sector interventions
• Conducted the Stakeholders, Central Government Agencies, Ministries and CSOs, conducted in depth and Key informants interviews, and Focus Group interviews (with the Government officials: MINECOFIN, MININFRA, MINAGRI, RAB,ONE ACRE FUND etc
• Conducted interviews with Local Governments (Districts Officials: Mayors, Vice Mayors, Directors of Health, Agriculture, Finance and Planning, District Staff, Sectors and Cell Staff etc)
• Collected data, transcripts and minutes for the conducted interviews
• Conducted Field interviews with the community members (Citizens, Local leaders, Community Health Workers, Farmers, Cooperative’s members etc)
• Collected and submitted all completed data collections tools include questionnaires, pictures
• Conducted Desk reviews research and produced reports and trends on the relevant conducted studies
• Conducted and wrote success stories to document the impacts
• Presentation of  findings and addressing the comments

• October 2021- Feb 2022 – Agricultural Nutrition & WASH Expert / Evaluator Consultant

Project: UNICEF: Endline Evaluation of the Developing Human Capital in Rwanda Programme (DHCR) (period under evaluation 2016-20210)

• Evaluated the pro poor strategies ( VUP programme) for poverty reduction,
• Collected and analyzed statistics on povery alleviation program of VUP understand the graduation from extreme poverty for the beneciaries of the DHCR programme.
• Conducted Desk Reviews of the Programme Documents and other Existing Data and produced the inception report
• Organized and trained data collectors on KIIs, FGDs
• Conducted KIIs/FGDs with government agencies actors in malnutrition and extreme poverty reduction (MINALOC, RURA, LODA, MINAGRI, NCDA MOH, etc, UNICEF team and at district level.
• Provided inputs to the Evaluation Lead on the findings from the fields

Other skills: (e.g. Computer literacy, etc.)

• Microsoft programs: Excel, words, PowerPoint (writing, designing, fonts and colours, tables, calculation, data analysis with pivot tables and presentation)
• ICT tools such as google, Gmail, Outlook, Dropbox, MS project and Internet
• Quality report writing
• Data analysis and information presentation with tables, charts and diagram
• Statistical software’s/ Template Design , Data Entry , Data Management , Data analysis and Presentation including SPSS, STATA, EXCEL and Basic on Python and R 
• Database design, functioning and maintenance including , Kobo Tool Box,  Akvo Flow DHIS2 database (Data Entry Presentation and Analysis),GPS
• Quantitative and Qualitative data collections Methods
• Inferential and descriptive statistics
• EU contractual, deliverables, terms and conditions
• EU research assignments, evaluation questions, reporting formats and data protection requirements.