Dr. Ignace Kabano
Founder and President
Dr. Ignace Kabano
Founder and President
Dr. Kabano is a Senior Socio-Economist consultant with track record in Projects Monitoring and Evaluation with substantive expertise in the Result Based Monitoring and Evaluation for the last 22 years.
He is the founder, Team leader and strategic advisor of the Centre for Integrated Development Research and Action. He has worked on a number of projects related to both general Development programs’ evaluation, health, environmental and social impact assessments, Projects’ socioeconomic impact evaluation with application of diverse Projects’ Impact Evaluation Designs and analyses such as Randomized Controlled Trial and many others in line with the type of project to be evaluated.
For the last 22 years, Dr. Kabano has conducted Projects’ Impact studies in line with funding institutions such as World Bank (WB), African Development Bank (AfDB), KFW and different other UN Organizations such as UNICEF, UNDP, USAID as well as other general development projects falling in the private or public institutions framework. He is a PhD holder in Demography from Utrecht University/The Netherlands and is a Senior Lecturer of Demography and Statistics in the department of Applied Statistics.
- Email:kignace@cidragroup.com
Mr. Willy G. Mpabuka
Head of consultancy
Mr. Willy G. Mpabuka
Head of consultancy
He is a socio-economic expert. He has strong experience in survey design and survey implementation. He leaded a lot of survey and census while he was Director of Census department in the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda for 5 years, especially for the 2012 Rwandan Population and Housing Census as well as the 2014 Establishment Census. He conducted also various socioeconomic surveys and other studies in area such as governance, Child rights, land issues, gender mainstreaming, conflicts management; baseline, mid-term and impact evaluation of projects. He conducted a quite number of baselines, mid-term evaluation and final evaluation of different projects/ programs.
He is currently a PhD candidate in data science in Demography in University of Rwanda and holds a Master’s degree in Demography and Statistics from University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa.
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Mrs. Marcella Igiraneza
Administration and Project Management Lead
Mrs. Marcella Igiraneza
Administration and Project Management Lead
Currently heading the administration and project management unit at CIDRA, She has an extensive experience in coordinating surveys and census project logistics, including making contacts with local leaders, coordination planning and arranging travel logistics for surveys. She is the contact person between clients and CIDRA. Her experience extends to writing proposal both technical and financial proposals and making sure they align with what the company does, and provide all the necessary administrative work and aspects, contributing to the selection of enumerators for data collection, booking venues for their trainings, planning fields works, planning FGSs venues and making contact with the stakeholders, follow up on them during the field work, and also to coordinate any other necessity for field works (communication, transport, internet). She also has experience in conducting qualitative research. She has been working in the consultancy field for more than 7 years. She is not only limited at writing proposals but as well as coordinating the project/assignment from the very first stage of contract signature to the submission of the final report and approval. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Information Technology from Kenya Methodist University.
- Email:marcella@cidragroup.com
Verdiane Muhawenimana
Finance Advisor
Verdiane Muhawenimana
Finance Advisor
She is a very experience finance expert. She has been in the administration/finance field for more than 30 years; she has worked in the different institutions in finance department. She holds a bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Rwanda (former KIE).
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Prof. Dieudonne Muhoza
Research and training Head
Prof. Dieudonne Muhoza
Research and training Head
He holds a PhD degree in Population studies from Utrecht University (The Netherlands) and a Master in Demography from Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He is currently an Associate Professor at University of Rwanda where he occupied various positions. In addition to university duties (teaching, conducting research involving statistics, supervision of dissertations and PhD Theses), Prof Muhoza is a permanent consultant at the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda as an expert-analyst of various national surveys and Rwanda Population and Housing Censuses (RPHC 2002, 2012, 2022) of which he developed several Thematic Reports and District Profiles from EICV and RPHC datasets. Parallel to the above, Prof. Muhoza has a long and rich experience in Statistical software such as STATA, SPSS, etc., used in analyzing small and large-scale datasets. With his statistical skills and knowledge, he won and completed successfully several consultancies in various socioeconomic domains.
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