Evariste Gahima joined the Institute of Policy Analysis, Rwanda in September 2018 as a Research Fellow having worked as a Lecturer at the University of Rwanda for 12 years. Gahima holds a PhD in Education Management from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, MBA (International Business) from Amity University, India, MRes in social and Educational Research Methods, from University of Rwanda and a BA (Hons) in Mass communication from National University of Rwanda. He is interested in Research and development programs including Governance, education, environment, public Administration and leadership. He has published various articles in the internationally reviewed journals, various conference paper presentations and has co-authored Research Method book for Business students and monograph for referencing techniques and plagiarism prevention.

Paul joined IPAR in 2008 as a Research Assistant charged with supporting research teams in, among other things, drafting research questionnaires, data collection and analysis. He is working on the household enterprise, access to health care in remote rural areas and one cow a poor family research projects. His linguistic skills are in high demand. Paul brings to IPAR his experience senior managerial positions especially in the public sector public. He was Mayor of Kicukiro District, Kigali between 1994 and 2001.

He worked at the Ministry of Local Administration, Communal Development and Social Affairs (MINALOC) between 2001 and 2005 where he held a number of senior positions including Director of National Programme for Childhood and Expert in Reinforcement of Institutional and Human Capacity Building. He has also served as an Expert in Documentation, Information and Communication at the National (Rwanda) Secretariat in Charge of Decentralization (NDIS). Paul holds a bachelors degree in For the detailed CV email: : p.kayira@ipar-rwanda.org

Christelle Umutesi is a Research Assistant at IPAR-Rwanda. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration majoring in Accounting from Adventist University of Central Africa (AUCA) located in Kigali, Rwanda. She also has a Master’s degree in Development Planning and Administration from a School of Development Planning (SDP) at the Centre for Development Studies and Activities (CDSA) ; which is affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University (former University of Pune) located in Pune city (India). At IPAR-Rwanda, she contributed to research on different projects including
Understanding the Factors Associated with Poverty, Evaluation of Seven (7) Years Government Programs in Rwanda, Updating the Master Plan of Kigali City and updating the Master Plan of Secondary Cities of Rwanda, Understanding the Effect of Education Costs on Education Attainment under the Basic Education in Rwanda, Understanding the Determinants of Household Savings in Rwanda, Youth Employment, Education and Skills (YEES) in Rwanda and Affordability and Willingness to pay for Clean Water in Rural area in Rwanda.

Delphine is a Research Assistant at IPAR-Rwanda. She has experience of 3 years in Research Monitoring and Evaluation. Prior to joining IPAR-Rwanda, She was a Research Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow at Population Services International (PSI)-Rwanda. She participated in monitoring, evaluation and reporting of programs funded by USAID, CDC, UNFPA, KFW and DOD, in doing several activities such as provision of training to new data collectors and data entry clerks, to supervise data collection for over 15 studies in different areas like Malaria, HIV, Nutrition, Safe Water, GBV(Gender based violence), and Family Planning. She has also 3 years in consultancy services in different organizations such as Swiss Tropical and public health, Society for Family Heath (SFH)-Rwanda, World Health Organization (WHO) and consulting companies such as CONCORDIA, and Dalberg Research where she performed data collection and supervision for both qualitative and quantitative studies ; data entry, data cleaning, and data quality management.
She has a bachelor’s degree in Management from Kigali Independent University (ULK).

Dr. Prosper Ndizihiwe holds a PhD in Renewable Energy for Environmental Protection from the University of Rwanda- African Center of Excellence in Energy for Sustainable Development (UR/ACE-ESD). He holds a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)- Cameroon and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the former National University of Rwanda (NUR).

Prior to joining IPAR-Rwanda, Ndizihiwe worked as a researcher at International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT-Rwanda) and Rwanda Cooling Initiative (R-COOL) Program.
Mr. Ndizihiwe participated in different research and innovative programs on Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture and Alternatives to Fossil Fuels as Energy Sources. He has published different peer reviewed manuscripts, mobile applications and online calculators.
Mr. Ndizihiwe’s research focuses on Green Energy & Economy, Climate Change Mitigations and Adaptations and Environmental Protection Strategies.

Dr. Radjab NYABYENDA is currently a Senior Research Fellow at IPAR-RWANDA.
Dr. Radjab NYABYENDA is a holder of Ph.D. in Economics in the area of Macro-Econometric Modeling. He was awarded a Master’s of Science in Economics ; A Post-Graduate Diploma in Finance, Management and Administration ; A Post graduate diploma in Stock Exchange, Foreign Trade and Exports Marketing. He was also awarded a Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Economics & Education and Diploma in Geography.

He works as Senior Lecturer and Ph.D. Research Supervisor at Kampala International University (KIU) ; He Served as the Dean of the faculty of Education at University of Technology and Arts of Byumba (UTAB) ; He served as a visiting faculty at Auro University-Surat, India ; He is also an International Representative of Vanita Vishram Women University, Surat, India. He worked as a Senior Lecturer and Curricula designer at East Africa University-Rwanda and Kigali Independent University (ULK) in the school of Post Graduate ; He served as a Senior Lecturer, a Post Graduate (PG) Curricula designer & Theses External Examiner at Cavendish University of Uganda (CUU) ;

He also served as a Senior lecturer at Inter University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) for Rumbek University of Science and Technology, South Sudan (RUST) ;
He served as a Senior consultant at APPROTECH Porus Pipe PVT Ltd “Irrigation, Pest Control & Aeration” India ; He also has served as a visiting faculty member at Mount Kenya University (MKU) ; Visiting faculty at the University of Tourism, Technology & Business Studies (UTB). He has served as Director of Academic Quality and faculty at Mahatma Gandhi University-Rwanda (MGUR).
He worked in Central Government of Rwanda at the Ministry of Sport where he effectively participated in formulation of Rwanda Sport Development Policy ; Rwanda cultural and Heritage Policy as well as Rwanda Sports Law.
He also contributed to the elaboration of Rwanda Youth Anti-Drug Curriculum initiated sponsored by PSI-Rwanda in partnership with the Ministry of youth and ICT-Rwanda.
He has excellent record in Academic & Research field where he supervised many Ph.D., Masters and UG students at Kampala International University (KIU), Kigali Independent University (ULK), MKU, EAUR and UTAB. He has presented many papers in National & International conferences and Published papers in international Peer reviewed Journals and one book chapter.

He was awarded by the National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) as the Best research supervisor. One of his Papers was awarded as the Best Paper in National conference held at DBIM-VNSGU, Surat-India. He is a Member of Gujarat Economists Association, India.