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Jean Bosco Kabagambe
Senior programme officer
RIU Rwanda

Jean Bosco Kabagambe bears a Master Diploma in Agriculture with a specialization in fish farming. He served in the Ministry of Agriculture as Chief Fisheries officer for twelve years before joining United Nations Agencies, namely WFP and UNDP as programme officer in charge of community development during the post-war period (1994 - 2002). In 2002 Mr Kabagambe joined a regional NGO, PREFED, aiming at strengthening community based organisations. He was dealing with organisational and Institutional capacity buildingof CBOs.

He joined the Private Sector Federation of Rwanda in 2006 where he was in charge of the Chamber of Agriculture and livestock with the objective to represent the agri-business community of Rwanda within the public-private partnership for policy dialogue and advocacy. His task was among others to transform the Rwandese agriculture into a professional business by building strong farmers organisations. He left PSF in 2010 to join RIU as Senior Programme Officer.

Kabagambe has worked as consultant especially in the domain of fisheries. He participated in a study on ecology and limnology of Rwanda lakes. One of the outcomes of this study is the fish stocking of Rwanda inland lakes by Oreochromis niloticus, rastrienobola argentea, and clarias mosambicus. He has participated in several PRA in Rwanda for planning purposes.

Education
Jean Bosco Kabagambe completed his Masters in Agriculture as Ingenieur Agronome in the Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Rwanda at Butare. He went on in the University of Rivers State, Port Harcourt, where he otained a High Diploma in fish farming. He also carried out a short course on fish stock assessment at the University of Washington Seattle.

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