Area of Expertise

Proposal Development, Project/Business Appraisal, Qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, Resource Mobilization, Monitoring and Evaluation, Strategic Planning, Risk Management, Quality management

Work Experience

Gabriel Muhuwa works as an academician in the Department of Rural Development and Regional Planning of the Institute of Rural Development Planning. He is a project planning and management expert with 4+ years of experience as a researcher, trainer, and consultant in the field of project management in various fields, not limited to Proposal Development, Qualitative & Quantitative data collection and analysis, Resource Mobilization, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Strategic Planning. He is also undertaking a PMP certification course at Project Management Institute (PMI) to broaden his technical skills related to project management.

Professional Skills

• Hands-on practice skills in systematic project identification and designing.
• Developing Solicited and unsolicited project proposals for Project, Business or Research activities.
• Designing and facilitating resource mobilization activities for development initiatives.
• Developing and applying Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and learning tools in the development context.
• Robust knowledge of the use of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) in conducting participatory needs assessment and development planning.
• Wide experience in qualitative and quantitative data collection, processing, analysis, and presentation.
• Designing online mobile data collection platforms using most of the most current technology Solutions and OpenDataKit (ODK).
• Experienced in the use and applications of statistical packages such as SPSS, Statistical, and R-Statistical Software for data for inferential and descriptive analyses including but limited to logistic and probity models

Research and academic Interests

The main research and academic interests are in project sustainability, community participation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, gender equality, Participatory appraisal, inclusion, access and utilization of energy as well as agricultural development.