IIA Faculty

Ms. Martha Byanyima

Country Director, RHESI
Food technologist and gender practitioner
SPS/food safety and quality management specialist

Contact information:

Rwanda Horticulture Export Standards Initiative (RHESI)
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Animal Resources (MINAGRI)
B.P 621, Kigali – Rwanda

Tel: +250 580362, 08306290

Email: marthab.rhesi@gmail.com

Martha Byanyima

Education:

Msc., Food Safety & Quality Management, NRi/University of Greenwich, UK HND., Food Technology, Kenya Polytechnic, Nairobi, Kenya


International Experience:

  • Regional Coordinator of the EU/ACP fisheries project in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
  • ACP Fisheries expert for the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (institution of the ACP-EU) to draft the fisheries policy brief (2007)
  • Lecturer,  KIST (Kigali University of Science & Technology) in Rwanda and Head of the Department for Women in Technology and Community Development at CITT (the rural technology transfer unit of KIST)
  • Coordinator of the Higher Education Link on Gender and Development between KIST and Glasgow Caledonian University (U.K).


Current project:

Country Director for Rwanda Horiculture Export Standards Initiative (RHESI); a project funded by the World Trade Organisation in partnership with Rwanda Government to support horticulture exports.

 

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