Boroma Tidiane Olivier Sanou

Young Expert at Akvo.org - Burkina Faso
YEP period 2020 - 2022, batch 21

YEP Role

Project Officer – Agrofood
Due to my studies in statistical engineering, I play the role of data expert. I therefore assist development partners in survey designing, data processing and reporting of the studies. 

Skills

• Training and capacity building in computer science, software for data collection and processing
• Database design
• Programming (VBA, R, Python, Haskell, …)
• Designing tools and strategies for data collection and analysis
• Computerized data processing
• Econometrics modeling
• Analysis of agricultural statistics
• Economic analysis
• Project management; M&E
• Outstanding communication skills
• Team management
• Team working

Background

Nationality: Burkinabe
Education:

• 2014 – 2017: Statistics and Economist Engineering with a specialization in Statistics Methods and Applications in the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics of Abidjan (ENSEA), Ivory Coast
• 2009 – 2013: Licence of Mathematics at Ouagadougou University (UO), Burkina Faso

Experience before YEP

Since August 2019: Project Officer at Akvo Foundation, Burkina Faso:

• Trainer on the use of Akvo tools for project M&E
• Drafting of training report and meeting summary report
• Survey tools designing, data cleaning, analysis and visualization and Dashboards building

March 2019: Consulting for Neer-Tamba Project, Burkina Faso:

• Support farm development team to build survey tools for activities monitoring
• Ensuring collected data quality
• Report on the state facilities for which the project is responsible

Sep. 2018 - June 2019: Internship at Akvo Foundation, Burkina Faso:

• In charge of statistical studies
• Assistant trainer on Akvo tools and services

October - December 2017: Data collection supervisor for World Bank (WB):

• Team management to ensure data quality of Sahel region Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD) project baseline
• Technical support for the use of the mobile data collection application CSEntry

August - October 2016: Internship at IDDH/CERAP:

• Institute for Dignity and Human Rights (IDDH) is a research Centre and private university with studies in areas of peace, ethics, human rights and governance. It’s one of main branches of Centre for Research and Action for Peace (CERAP). I worked there as part of my end-of-cycle statistical engineering internship with the thesis theme, “Employment and entrepreneurship education supply in Abidjan”
• I applied all stage of research, from defining objectives to writing research results