Pierre Claver HABIMANA has eleven (11) years of experience in designing and implementing Monitoring and
Evaluation (M&E) Systems, doing research for project planning in addition to organizing and
conducting evaluations, identifying issues and lessons learned for decision-making; including
developing M&E frameworks and tools, conducting quality control, data validations, quantitative and
qualitative data collection and analysis including using research software such as advanced Excel, SPSS,
Atlas.ti, STATA, R, Eviews and CSPro; and digital methods for data collection (ODK, Kobo collect,
Survey CTO, Web surveys, etc).
As a Statistician and a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist by practice, he is a holder of a
master’s degree (MSc) in Applied Statistics from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and
Technology (Kenya) and a bachelor’s degree (BSc) in Applied Statistics from the National University
of Rwanda. Whereas the degree equips him in statistical analysis, inference and statistical modelling
inter-alia, the latter equips him with how to monitor and evaluate donor funded Agriculture, Education,
Health and Nutrition, Child and Community Protection, Livelihoods and workforce development,
Food Security, Social Inclusion, Governance and Humanitarian Response programs and understand
the ramifications they have upon the beneficiaries and society at large through guiding programming
with quality data synthesis and utilization for decision making.
Pierre Claver is passionate about fostering empowerment and self-determination of vulnerable
populations by giving them a voice and status through inclusion in all phases of applied research and
evaluation. His main areas of interest are data analytics applied to the third sector; digital means to
generate evidence; and inclusive project design that can assure feedback loops between implementing
partners and targeted communities. He is driven to engage in generating research evidence that will
have a policy impact towards improving the well-being of at-risk/poor/vulnerable children, families,
individuals, and communities; and providing credible evidence for decision-making.
