Dr. Dickson Malunda is a Development Economist a PhD in Economics from the University of Trento. His thesis was entitled ‘Commodity Markets, Risk and Poverty, A case of Uganda.’ Dickson also holds a Masters degree in Development Economics from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His research interests are in poverty, employment and economic transformation. He has over six years experience as a researcher. He is currently employed as a Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Policy Analysis and Research ( IPAR-Rwanda). Prior to joining IPAR, Dickson worked as a Poverty Economist at the World Bank office in Rwanda. He was the team leader for a project on Rwanda’s economic transformation which was a multi-country project funded and commissioned African Center for Economic Transformation in Ghana.

Dickson has also worked on the Women’s Economic Empowerment ! Survey, worked on Action Aid’s Public financing for Agriculture project and is the team leader for the EAC regional project on innovative approaches to tackling youth unemployment . The project covers Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. In addition, he has done a baseline survey and report for ActionAid’s public financing for Agriculture(PFA) project. He has also worked on ActionAid’s participatory baseline which included monitoring indicators for ActionAid’s Rwanda country program covering the period 2012 to 2018. He has also completed a research project on Rwanda’s labour markets funded and commissioned by IDRC and the University of Witswatersrand a in South Africa.

Dr. Jean Baptiste Nsengiyumva is a Disaster and Natural Hazard Risk Manager with a PhD in Earth Observation and Geo-Information Sciences from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS-China). His Doctoral dissertation was entitled’ Modeling Landslide Susceptibility in Central-Eastern Africa”, A case of Rwanda. Jean Baptiste also holds a Master of Science degree (MSc.) in Governance and Spatial Information Management from the University of Twente in the Netherlands ; a Bachelor Degree from the National University of Rwanda (Current UR) and a Post Graduate degree in Disaster Resilience Leadership from Makerere University in Uganda. He is interested in Socio-Economic Researches, Disaster Risk Analysis, Hazard Monitoring, Vulnerability Assessment. He joined IPAR in August 2019 as the Senior Research Fellow. Prior to joining IPAR, Jean Baptiste was the Director of Research and Public Awareness, Director of Risk Reduction and Preparedness, Director of Mitigation and Prevention in the Ministry in Charge of Emergency Management in Rwanda-MINEMA (From June 2011 to April 2019) and Member of the Board of Directors for Rwanda Meteorological Agency.
Jean Baptiste has worked for IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC/SAWIDREA-Project, Nairobi-Kenya) as a Disaster Risk Management Expert. In addition, he occupied different positions such as : Director of GIS and Urban Housing Database in Rwanda Housing Authority, Principal Policy Planning and Researcher in the Rwanda Higher Education Council, Researcher in IRST (Current NIRDA) and a Lecturer in different Higher Learning Institutions (UR, UNILAK and INES). Additionally, he has published different high impact factor papers in international peer reviewed Journals (Elsevier, MDPI, Tylor & Francis and Wiley Publishers).

Dr. Martin Ruzima holds a PhD in Economics from Annamalai University (India), M.A. Applied Economics from Annamalai University (India), M. Com [Finance] from Madurai Kamaraj University, (India), M.Sc.IT from Annalamai University (India) and B.Sc. IT from the former National University of Rwanda(NUR). Dr. Martin is a Research Fellow at Institute of Policy Analysis and Research-Rwanda (IPAR-Rwanda). Before joining IPAR-Rwanda, he worked as a Lecturer and Acting Director of Quality Assurance at the University of Kibungo. Prior to joining IPAR-Rwanda, Dr. Martin worked with different programmes and actively contributed to inter-disciplinary research to explore policies and impact change in Rwanda.
His research work focuses on economic growth and applications to developing countries, human capital impacts on development, poverty analysis, institutions and policies for development, private investment, financial development, international trade and foreign direct investment.

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 BA (Hons) in Mass communication from National University of Rwanda, MRes in social and Educational Research Methods, from University of Rwanda, MBA (International Business) from Amity University, India and is a PhD student in Educational studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. He is interested in Research and development programs including Governance, education, environment, public Administration and leadership. He has published three Articles on the institutional management practices and learner participation in higher learning institutions, Institutional use of ICT and learner participation in Distance learning programmes and institutional tutorial support services for distance learners. He has also co-authored Research methods book for Business students and monograph for referencing techniques and plagiarism prevention.

Mr. Ismael Byaruhanga is a Research Fellow at IPAR Rwanda, he holds a Master’s of Science degree in Banking and Investment from Makerere University-Uganda. He gained teaching and research experience from the University of Rwanda since 2009, and also participated in the Staff Exchange program under the Inter-University Council for East Africa Lecturing in the International leadership University and prior to teaching he worked as a consultant/ or credit officer for Blue Financial services Ltd Rwanda for a period of eighteen months (18 months). He is a Member of Charted Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI-London) and East African regional trainer for CISI.
His research interests are in the areas of Financial Inclusion, Financial intermediation, Corporate governance, Organizational citizenship behavior, Public finance, Electronic Payment systems etc.
Published articles in various journals ;
Book Chapter :
1. Ismael BYARUHANGA AND BIKADHO PATRICK OTHUMA (2016) Enhancing Organizational Citizenship Behavior : The Role of Employee Empowerment, Trust and Engagement. Springer ;Pp 87-103
Articles :
1. ISMAEL BYARUHANGA and Detelin Elenkov(2015), Entrepreneurial competencies, and Perceived market share for small and medium enterprises : An international study. Journal of strategic and International studies. Vol. 5:1 Pp18-28
2. ISMAEL BYARUHANGA (2013), “Credit accessibility, Credit terms and Performance of Agricultural cooperatives in Rwanda.” Journal of Emerging Issues in Economics, Finance and Banking. Vol : 1:6 (June).
3. ISMAEL BYARUHANGA & AMIR MUHAMAD (2013). “Entrepreneurial competencies, Psychological capital, Working capital management and Perceived market share.” A case study of small and medium enterprises in Dar-es Salaam, Tanzania : The Journal of Business and Retail Management : Vol : 7:2 (April) Pp. 83-95.
Research Work
Public Expenditure Tracking Survey, Rwanda Report : Conducted the study, Report writing, analysis of data, presentation 2019.
Study on Secondary city development in Rwanda : Development of study tools, Conducted the study, Report writing, analysis of data. 2019.
Citizen’s participation : Downward and Upward information flow in decision making, an Egovernment solution to enhance information : Case study analysis on VUP and Girinka programs” Consultant

Email : i.byaruhanga@ipar-rwanda.org

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

Lambert IZERIMANA is a research assistant at IPAR-Rwanda. He has a Master’s degree in statistics from the East African Statistical Training Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Prior to joining IPAR-Rwanda, he was a research assistant at International Livestock Research Institute’s research project in partnership with University of Rwanda and Research Triangle International. He has experience in research as coordinator of field surveys, producing field reports, data cleaning, and data analysis. He has served as Assistant Lecturer at Higher Learning Institutions in Rwanda.

He is passionate with data and statistics to support decision making and planning processes through research. He is interested in Socio-Economic Researches, Official Statistics and Data Sciences. Aware of the importance of good quality data and statistics, he makes sure they are of high quality towards making sound decisions and successfully achieving research goals.

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.

Eric Cyubahiro is a Research Assistant at IPAR-Rwanda. Cyubahiro holds Bachelor of science in Applied Statistics from University of Rwanda and Master of arts in Economics from Galgotias University, India. He has published one article on determinants of export performance in Rwanda : Eric CYUBAHIRO,(2020) "DETERMINANTS OF EXPORTS PERFORMANCE : CASE STUDY RWANDA", IJRAR - International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR), E-ISSN 2348-1269, P- ISSN 2349-5138, Volume.7, Issue 2, Page No pp.525-531. He has worked also on project which studied on the Effect of Made in Rwanda program on consumer welfare and textile industry 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).

Muhoza is a Research Assistant at IPAR-rwanda. She holds a Bachelor of Arts & Social Sciences : Major in Economics and Minor in Sociology from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya ; and currently pursuing Master’s of Science in Economics in the University of Rwanda. Before joining IPAR-Rwanda, she worked with Give Directly-Rwanda as a Field Officer ; and as a temporal Research Assistant in various institutions including IPAR-Rwanda, Save the Children-Rwanda, and International Alert.
Her long term career goal is to become an accomplished Monitoring and Evaluation professional with hands on skills in Research, Data Analysis and Project Management.