Area of Expertise

Population and development planning, Development Studies, Evaluation and Management

Work Experience

Harold Mabwe (MSc. Development Evaluation and Management) works as Lecturer in the Department of rural development planning of the Institute of Rural Development Planning. He is a development practitioner with 13+ years of experience as a; trainer, researcher and consultant in the field of project management, planning implementation monitoring and evaluation, not limited to risk analysis, strategic planning policy analyst management and planning.

Professional Skills

• Monitoring and Evaluation of different interventions
• Policy analysis and Evaluation
• Wide knowledge of qualitative and quantitative impact evaluation using methods such as., RCT, quasi-experiment, Outcome Harvesting (OH), Most Significant Change (MSC) 
• Extensive skills in using participatory tools and frameworks for designing various interventions e.g., Community Based Management System(CBMS), SWOT analysis, improved O&OD, Objective Oriented Project Planning (OOPP), and PESTEL, political opportunity structure (POS), political Economic Analysis (PEA), LFM, etc,.
• Experienced in the use and applications of statistical packages such as SPSS, Stata, and NVIVO Software for data management, analysis and interpretations.
• Managing projects using Microsoft Project, e.g. develop and generate Project Charter, Scope Statements, WBS, CPM/PERT, Earned Value Analysis (EVA)
• Lobbying and advocacy skills, Project  appraisal and   financing
• Project risk analysis
• Facilitation skills e.g., in , Population and development, Gender and Development, Project design and write up, Project management, Monitoring and Evaluation.

Research and academic Interests

Main research and academic interest are: on population and development, rural development design, poverty analysis, policy analysis, social planning, risk analysis, gender issues, project management, project design, and evaluation of different interventions.