Drocelle Musabyimana

History: Young Expert at Wageningen University & Research - Rwanda
YEP period 2018 - 2020, batch 15
Position after YEP
Junior Integrated Water Resources management officer at MDF Training & Consultancy B.V., Rwanda
YEP Role
Junior Integrated Water Resources management officer, following are my tasks in project:
- Co- identify risks and opportunities for improved watershed protection and management (report reviews, stakeholder identification and interviews, data collection and analyses etc)
- Assist in the selection of promising IWRM measures such as flood and erosion control measures, High crops yields ,better livelihoods farmers, land scape restoration etc)
- Co-prepare design and cost estimates for selected options
- Assist in outsourcing/ tendering of selected and pre-design IWRM measures
- Co- supervises implementation of selected measures
- Assist in M&E of selected measures
- Reporting activities
- Maintain the contact with the local partners, project beneficiaries and other stakeholders, Extend the local network.
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Skills
Computer skills:
- Use of geographical information tools, like: Arc GIS, Q GIS, and Smart GIS, Universal map dawnloader, Google Earth, GPS, etc.
- Use of the WEAP model, aqua crop
- Application of Excel in water monitoring
Nationality: Rwandan
Education:
- Bachelor degree in Water and environmental Engineering at University of Rwanda college of science and Technology
- Mathematics’ physics and chemistry (MPC) at secondary school
Experience before YEP
June 2014 – October 2014: Academic internship at COPED (Company for Environment Protection and Development) Ltd. Expertises acquired from the acadmic internship experience:
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Waste management process in Kigali from point sources to the final disposal
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Plastic waste recycling process in Rwanda
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Biodegradable waste recycling (waste to energy)
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Carrying out Baseline surveys on hygiene practices in hospitality services in Kigali
June 2015 – May 2016: Professional Internship at Green cover initiative (GCI) Rwanda
- Review the policies, plan of nature resources management
- Identification of opportunities funds for NGO
- Drafting the project proposals.
- Preparation and providing of training for farmers about sustainable agriculture practices
June 2016 –October 2017: Catchment planning Intern at Water for Growth (W4G) Rwanda
- Assist in catchments planning process (identification of issues, opportunities and measures for landscape restoration in four demonstration catchments)
- Collection of geographical information on field related to water resources such as (issues, interventions and opportunities)
- Assist to analysis all available Geo-data to generate reports, information’s and statistics requested by IWRM management
- Participation producing the WEAP models for four catchments
October 2017- July 2018: Geographical Information system (GIS) officer at SHER consultants
- Digitalization and preparation shape files of land cover
- Assist in selection of promising IWRM measures
- Preparation of all types of maps, tables needed in catchments management plan (Muvumba, Nyabugogo, Upper Nyabarongo and Sebeya)