PATRICK RUGWIZANGOGA
Rockville,USA
Summary
Strong capacity of analysis, identifying priority, teamwork and team leadership, communication, diplomacy and conflict management, creative, dynamic and pro-active
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Consultant
Kigali, Rwanda
08.2013
- Served as field coordinator and data analyst for the “perception study of poverty reduction strategies for poorest households survey” in Rwanda conducted by the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP). https://www.minaloc.gov.rw/fileadmin/user_upload/Minaloc/Publications/Useful_Documents/EDPRS_2__1_.pdf
Consultant
World Bank
Washington DC, USA
09.2023 - Current
- Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) - ENERGY FOR ALL GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE HUB
- Collect electricity access data from household surveys and censuses, ensuring alignment with SDG 7.1.1 methodology and maintaining consistency across countries.
- Run statistical models (e.g., in STATA) to process, validate, and update the SDG 7.1.1 electricity access database, using both real survey data and model-based estimates to fill gaps.
- Collaborate with National Statistics Offices (NSOs) for coordinated data collection and management at both global and country levels, supporting harmonized survey integration.
- Analyze electricity access data, update visualizations and graphics, and draft key messages and the access chapter for reporting and communication purposes.
- Lead the preparation and regular updating of communication materials on SDG 7.1.1, including website content and public-facing reports.
- Address and respond promptly to data requests on SDG 7.1.1 from stakeholders and partners, ensuring timely and accurate information dissemination.
- Manage the formal reporting of electricity access data to the United Nations and coordinate with other agencies (IEA, IRENA, WHO, UNSD) involved in producing the SDG7 report, including preparing templates and participating in coordination calls.
- Led the planning and preparation of Energy Access workshops on “Methodological Guidelines for Electricity Access Rate Measurement in Africa,” partnering with African Energy Commission (AFREC) and sectoral experts.
- Closely working with ESMAP portfolio team to produce the Annual progress report of the Energy Data and Analytics Hub.
- Support the chair of SDG7 report all processes including maintaining participant lists, drafting timelines, and monitoring progress of report authors through editing, design, and web publication stages.
- Provide technical support to fragile, conflict, and violence-affected (FCV) countries to help bridge electricity access gaps, leveraging data-driven approaches.
- Supported in the development and production of the 2024 Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) report, contributing to data analysis, content review, website review and collaboration with technical teams.
- Work closely with IT teams to address technical issues and ensure regular updates to the Energydata.info portal, supporting the ESMAP Knowledge Hub and contributing to annual progress reports and operational outputs.
Independent Consultant
ITM Africa / Access Bank Rwanda
Rwanda
10.2022 - 06.2023
- Access Bank Rwanda Compensation Survey Report
- Cleaned and Analyzed data from the Remuneration and Benefits market survey using excel.
- Reviewed data from comparable companies with matching criteria, and
- Prepared a detailed comparison report to determine external competitiveness of Access Bank Rwanda practices and policies
- Participated in the development of the Access Bank Rwanda compensation report.
Chief Skills Office
RWANDA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Kigali, Rwanda
01.2019 - 04.2023
- CAPACITY BUILDING RESEARCH SPECIALIST
- Led the Development of Capacity Building Fund Database, from its design, data collection, data entry and quality assurance.
- Contributed to the Capacity Development interventions through provision of data analysis and visualizations, summary reports and power point presentations to different internal and external stakeholders.
- Developed innovative ways to present data that communicates a persuasive and impactful message and regularly updating of the Skills office databases. (Kora Job Portal, LMIS, Internship Database, etc.). https://jobportal.kora.rw
- Drafted different meeting minutes including the departmental meetings, Rwandan graduates Alumni forums and capacity building steering committee meetings.
- Drafted a brief report on presidential scholars which was used to mobilize different companies to absorb unemployed presidential scholars. So far 99% secured job both in country and abroad.
- Supported in drafting the Annual State of Skills Supply and Demand 2022.
- Supported in the upgrading of the Labor market information System/LMIS by identify challenges in the labor market and propose possible policy recommendations.
- Developed Monthly/Quarterly Updates on the set indicators to the Board of Rwanda Development Board.
- Monitored the effects and impacts of the education projects and the overall progress on the M&E results. https://www.mineduc.gov.rw/fileadmin/user_upload/Mineduc/SPIU_Documents/SUMMARY_FOR_THE_WEB.pdf
- Coordinated the Local Government Sector in assessing their capacity needs and supported in reviewing their Capacity Building plans.
- Served as focal person to regularly update the National Skills Database compiling data of graduates from different universities in Rwanda and Abroad to match them the labor market. Over 50 fresh graduates, were linked to different public and private sector institutions for job opportunities on annual basis.
- In collaboration with IOM, I served as a focal person in the development of the Diaspora Mapping exercises in Europe and Canada to know their socioeconomic profile, professional skills, and expertise, as well as their aggregate skills, interests, and motivation to support development initiatives in Rwanda.
- Developed the Capacity Building manual as guiding document for Capacity building in Rwanda and also to regulate operations within different institutions.
- Supported in the development of National Sector Skills Council Operational Framework and its implementation.
DATA MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
National Capacity Building Secretariat (NCBS)/Capacity Development and Employment Services Board (CESB)
Kigali, Rwanda
08.2015 - 01.2019
- Conducted the impact of Capacity Building initiatives through Monitoring & Evaluation of project set indicators, designing the result framework and regular reporting of the results through providing relevant, accurate and timely data.
- Developed the metadata that is covering all Key Performance indicators (KPIs) for Capacity Building: Internal/Operational, National, and international.
- Served as data analyst in the development of Food Safety and Quality Skills Audit that triggered over 1million $ in the National budget.
- Regularly Validated, interpreted, and analyzed statistical capacity building data including quality assurance of data and highlighting anomalies and inaccuracies.
- Used of statistical packages, SPSS, MAXQDA, STATA and advanced Microsoft excel to produce relevant and timely statistical analysis of all kinds of capacity building data
- Worked with responsible persons from relevant institutions and developed strategies for creating, collecting and managing large and complex datasets for example the annual state of capacity building and baseline surveys.
- Developed the user guide for the internship database for further usage and I served as data analyst in the development of the internship Evaluation report using MAXQDA for qualitative data and SPSS for Quantitative data.
- Provided monthly, Quarterly and Yearly reports on different Capacity development interventions conducted.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION OFFICER
COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS Ltd
Kigali, Rwanda
10.2013 - 07.2015
- Supported team with data collection, data entry and quality assurance.
- Worked closely with the IT Manager to design and utilize data collection tools.
- Contributed to reporting and planning requirements.
Education
MSc Statistics with Computer Application -
ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
India01-2013
Post Graduate Diploma - Actuarial statistics
ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
India05-2012
Skills
- SPSS software, STATA software, R programming, Python, CS pro software, Kobo Toolbox, ODK, Tableau, Power Bi, MAXQDA, Survey CTO
- MS- Word (Excellent), MS-Access, MS – Excel (Excellent), MS-Project, EPI INFO & MS- Power Point (Excellent)
Affiliations
- Toastmasters
- Project Management Institute
Certification
- Certificate on a survey conducted by Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace (IRDP), Kigali, September 2013.
- Certificate in Live 2 Lead training program, (Kigali Rwanda, May 2017)
- Certificates in Data Manipulation and Formatting, Master the Textbox, Organizing Emails and Typing and Formatting Text in Word; all sponsored by Kubicle Advanced Training for Business.
- Certificates in Managing Projects Risks and Changes, sponsored by Coursera.
- Certificate in Design and Conduct Tracer Studies.
- World Bank Core Values and Code of Ethics (January 2024)
- Social Media Engagement (World Bank January 2024)
- Personal Data Privacy at the World Bank (IBRD/IDA) (World Bank January 2024)
- Cybersecurity Awareness Course (World Bank January 2024)
- What's Your Role? Preventing and Addressing Sexual Harassment at the World Bank Group
- Building Dashboards with Power BI (World Bank September 2025)
- Understanding statistics for effective data visualization (World Bank March 2025)
- Python for Data Science (World Bank December 2024)
LANGUAGE
English: Speaking - Excellent, Reading - Excellent, Writing - Excellent
French: Speaking - Excellent, Reading - Excellent, Writing - Excellent
Kinyarwanda: Speaking - Excellent, Reading - Excellent, Writing - Excellent
Swahili: Speaking - Good, Reading - Good, Writing - Good
Timeline
Consultant
World Bank
09.2023 - Current
Independent Consultant
ITM Africa / Access Bank Rwanda
10.2022 - 06.2023
Chief Skills Office
RWANDA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
01.2019 - 04.2023
DATA MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
National Capacity Building Secretariat (NCBS)/Capacity Development and Employment Services Board (CESB)
08.2015 - 01.2019
MONITORING AND EVALUATION OFFICER
COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS Ltd
10.2013 - 07.2015
Consultant
08.2013
Post Graduate Diploma - Actuarial statistics
ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
MSc Statistics with Computer Application -
ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY
PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS
- ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY OF INDIA March 2013, ADVANCED STATISTICAL PACKAGE
- Data analysis using Microsoft Excel, SPSS Software, STATA Software and R Software.
- SOLUTION AFRICA October 2016, Live 2 Lead (leadership training program).
- World Bank - ADePT Software Program Training February 22nd to 26th 2016- Musanze, ADePT Software program training
- Focus on 3 modules: Poverty and Inequality, labor and social protection.
- World Bank - STATA Training. May 2019, Kigali Rwanda, Data Management and cleaning in STATA.
- MDF training and Consultancy March 15th to March 17th, 2016, Outcome Mapping Training
- Focused on methodology for planning, monitoring, and evaluating development initiatives.
- Rwanda Management Institute 18th to 25th October 2021, Design and Conduct Tracer Studies
- European Union under ACCIONA Training Company 22nd to 26th August 2022, Logical Framework and Resource Mobilization Training
Activities and reports
- 2025 Tracking SDG7 Energy Progress report. https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/sites/default/files/download-documents/sdg7-report2025-0620-v6-highres.pdf
- 2024 Tracking SDG7 Energy Progress report. (https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/sites/default/files/download-documents/sdg7-report2024-0611-v9-highresforweb.pdf)
- RISE 2024 Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy, (https://rise.esmap.org/data/files/reports/2024/rise_report_2024_050125_v7_final_web.pdf).
- National Skills Development and Employment Strategy sponsored by the World Bank, https://rdb.rw/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/NSDEPS.pdf
- Labor Market Skills Assessment Report (Sponsored by Master Card Foundation), Kigali – Rwanda, December 2022.
- Labor Force Surveys analytical reports, 2022
- Annual State of Skills Supply and Demand 2022 (Sponsored by Master Card Foundation). https://rdb.rw/files/state-of-skills-report-2022.pdf
- National Sector Skills Council Operational Framework.
- Graduates Absorption to the labor Market Survey.
- Annual report for Strengthening Education for Agriculture Development (SEAD) project funded by the Netherlands Government.
- Annual reports (2020, 2021 & 2022) https://rdb.rw/reports/RDB-Annual-Report-202g2.pdf.
- A report on the Capacity Building Impact Assessment Among Beneficiary Institutions from July 2014-June 2019. May 2021.
- Establishment of the Skills Dashboard for Rwanda Development Board.
- Establishment of Skills Database and Matching Project. (Supported by MINECOFIN) July 2018
- Labor Market Information and Matching Systems (LMIS); January, 2021
- Food Safety and Quality Skills Audit. (Sponsored by African Development Bank Group) 16 November 2018
- Evaluation of the Internship Program Report, February, 2017(lead)
- Assessment of Coaching Initiative in Rwanda. (CESB June 2017)