User:Janvierhitimana/sandbox

Janvier Hitimana Profile:
Janvier Hitimana is a Rwandan by nationality born in 1993. Regarding the education, Janvier has Master degree in Environment and Development study, specialized in Environmental Information System. He gained bachelor degree in 2018 from University of Rwanda in Geography and specialized in Geographic Information System and Environment. He completed high school in Mathematic, Physics and Geography from Kagitumba High School.

Janvier has 10 Years of  working experience with local and regional NGOs and institutions. He is genus and interested in geospatial technology, digital solution for environment and natural resources management. Specialist in the application of GIS related tools for solving environmental problems, planning and monitoring landscape restoration projects. He have extensive knowledge in carbon project development, management and monitoring. Janvier has led various project related to the application of GIS and remote sensing for environmental and natural resources management, using geospatial technology combined with web-based technology. In collaboration with a Germany company, they developed different tools for carbon project monitoring (Mobile application and dashboard) to manage and monitor a 40-years carbon project in Rwanda. He has contributed to the innovation for enhancing the use of geospatial technology for monitoring landscape restoration project and he have participated in different summit, workshops and meetings for sharing experience with other at regional and global level.

Currently, he is the head of GIS and Information Management at Albertine Rift Conservation Society (ARCOS). ARCOS is a regional conservation organization founded in 1995 with the sole focus on the Albertine Rift biodiversity conservation. Additionally, he is the project manager for TerraFund for AFR100 Project that is being implemented by ARCOS in Western part of Rwanda. He is certified by Green Climate Fund (GCF) as project development and management by professional. Moreover, Janvier is a quick learner and adapt quickly to the technology and change. He has required skills for using GIS software such as ArcGIS, ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, ENVI, Ilwis and ERDAS Imagine, Google Earth Engine, UAV/drone technology, spatial data collection using GPS and using digitization techniques through existing data and remote sensing. He has used also Web-GIS using open-source tools like PostGIS/PostgreSQL, statistical tools like SPSS, STATA and Microsoft Excel as well as basic skills in programming tools such as Python, R tools and others.

Key Achievements

 * Together with a Germany company called UNIQUE land use, we have developed a web-based system and mobile application for data collection and project management under a 20-year restoration and carbon project “Agroforestry for Livelihoods” being implemented in Rwanda from 2020. The project will restore more than 15,000 hectares of degraded land ad plant above 6million trees
 * Compiled and produced various monitoring and evaluation reports for landscape restoration projects and provide key recommendations to improve the survival rate of planted trees and better engagement of local communities in restoration process.
 * Developed the ARCOS-Geodatabase to manage and store spatial data including vector and raster data and their associated attribute data for different projects and programs
 * Conducted trainings for more than 200 field staff and 7 local NGOs from Rwanda, Burundi and DRC about the role of GIS and remote sensing in landscape restoration and educate them how to create spatial data through creating polygons, taking GPS points, and convert the spatial data into different format like shapefiles, KML file, Geojson and others.
 * I have conducted spatial data analysis and modeling and the results presented through the creation of more than 30 thematic maps using QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, ArcMap, ENVI, MeteoInfoLab and others. Those maps have been used for various purposes including project proposal development, land use land cover change through satellite imagery analysis, project impact assessment and showing the location of different ARCOS interventions in Albertine Rift region.
 * I have conducted a Data Quality Control and Quality Assurance (QC/QA) for the big data through the introduction of AI and embedding geospatial technology to control the duplication and presenting the data using maps. Through the past years, as GIS and Data Manager, I am in charge of training all staff about the ethics for data quality control and different technics to ensure data quality.
 * I have developed the ARCOS Information Management Strategy 2021-2030 and facilitating its effective implementation.