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Welcome to the learning unit "Post Harvest Handling and Storage. The learning unit is designed to be taught to Year 2 students in the department of Rural Development and Agricultural Economics. The main objective of the learning unit is to make the students aware of post harvest management of agricultural produce, explain technologies/procedures applied to improve quality and reduce losses of harvested produce and discuss quality attributes and standards required to maintain safety of harvested produce. 

This module constitutes the backdrop to the problems and challenges of development. Due to the fact that development is a comprehensive process involving economic, social and environmental changes, the course will take an interdisciplinary approach. It is an attempt to explain some complex relationships among various aspects of development including population growth, economic growth and basics Rwandan economy.  

1. Module General introduction

Over the past decade, strong empirical evidence has shown that agricultural and rural development is not only an effective weapon against poverty, but also more successful in combating urban poverty than industrial growth. Researchers have started to assemble and study richer data than ever before on the distribution of rural and urban income. The urban and rural poor have benefited from the growth of the rural sector. In contrast, the adverse effects of urban growth on income distribution in cities have challenged these gains for the urban and rural poor. And urban growth has had no discernible effect on rural poverty. The proposed module of Rural Development Management comprises two components: (i) Diagnosis of Rural Areas and (ii) Rural Development Design and Management and pursues a triple objective:

2. Module Objectives

(i) To provide students with an operational method of analyzing a rural area based on a rural and agricultural development approach.

(ii) To make students capable of carrying out in complete autonomy, a diagnostic analysis of a rural area and identifying the assets and the constraints of development of the zone from the point of view of its social-economic operation, and consequently, to identify blocking factors to evolve and the resources to be developed.

(iii) After the diagnostic analysis, provide the students with methods of drawing up and managing rural development plans and strategies.

The module of Rural Development Management proposed here mainly concerns the Year Four students of Rural Development Option in the Department of Rural Development and Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences of University of Rwanda.

3. Modules Intended Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student will have acquired solid knowledge and skills in the diagnostic analysis of rural areas and the elaboration and management of rural development strategies and plans.

4. Key readings.

1. Katar Singh (2009). Rural Development: Principles, Policies and Management Edition:3, SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd

2. Jiménez et Y. Sawada, Do community-managed schools work? An evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO program, The World Bank Economic Review, vol. 13, № 3, septembre 1999, pages 415–441.

3. Maria Aycrigg, Participation and the World Bank: Success, Constraints, and Responses, Social Development Paper № 29, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development, Banque mondiale, Washington, D.C., novembre 1998, p. 11.

4. S. Tikare, D. Youssef, P. Donnelly-Roark et P. Shah, Organizing Participatory Processes in the PRSP, projet, Banque mondiale, Washington, D.C., avril 2001, p. 7.

5. Operations Evaluation Department, Participation Process Review, Executive Summary, Banque mondiale, Washington, D. C., 27 octobre 2000, p. 2.

6. Kathleen Selvaggio, From Debt to Poverty Eradication: What Role for Poverty Reduction Strategies? CIDSE et Caritas Internationalis, Bruxelles et Cité du Vatican, juin 2001, p. 24.

This module endeavors to teach students environmental laws and policy, environmental impact assessment. The module introduces students to procedures of conducting environmental impact assessment, a national and international legal instruments such as treaties countries rectify to commit themselves to comply with the requirements of the environmental conventions such as the IPCC.

This is a course dedicated to professionals / Computer Engineers, learning the basics of essential electronics and micro-controllers programming. This course is very important in Internet of Things.

This course presents the Integration of Renewable Energy into the grid.  Knowledge on Renewable Energy, Power Systems, Electrical Machines and Power Electronics is key in the integration engineering. 

TEST OF TOOLS TO BE USED WHILE TRAINING

  This module focuses on the main concepts of regional Geography (regionalization, nodal and functional regions) and the special approach to regional Geography (i.e. the integrative method that combines the various Geographical sub-disciplines). The course zooms in on the changing position of the major regions in the world with special attention to Africa and Rwanda.

      Having successfully completed the module, students should be able to:

   1. Know the principal factors that lead to the division of the world into the great economic regions

   2. Present the great economic regions and their resources and environments in general, and Eastern Africa in particular

   3. Know the unexplored aspects of the Geography of the Eastern Africa and Rwanda

This course will enable the students to have knowledge and skills in RH

The aim of this module is to provide the knowledge of fundamental concepts of software requirement engineering that teaches the principles and concepts involved in the gathering requirements in large software systems. Software requirements engineering is the process of determining what is to be produced in a software system. The four specific steps in software requirements engineering are: requirements elicitation, requirements analysis, requirements specification, and requirements validation. Within the software engineering life cycle, requirements engineering is the activity in which a system's purpose is captured, its stakeholders are identified, and the stakeholders' needs are documented, modeled, analyzed, and communicated. This module provides a critical description of the underlying concepts and techniques, methodologies and available tool support applicable to requirements engineering

This Module is designed for Business Information Technology Students. The concept and practical examples are from a business and IT related research.

This course intends to provide students with basic principles of research and enable them to perform clinical researches and publish results.

This course is intended to give the students a general understanding of what research entails; and to make them aware of the way in which researc theories can be applied to language teaching. in this regard, unit 1 focuses on Research P

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Meaning and purpose of research:  meaning, purpose, sources of knowledge and purpose-based classification of research; Research strategies: quantitative strategy and qualitative strategy; Research Designs: experimental design, survey design, case study design, comparative study design and longitudinal design; Research process - problem identification and setting, literature review, methodology devising, data collection, data analysis and report writing; Research planning –determinant factors, scheduling and budgeting; Research proposal and final report writing – introduction, literature review, methodology, data analysis and results, conclusions and recommendations, references and appendix. Computer applications in research: internet, data analysis programs and processes, networking and dissemination of findings

Research Methods and Academic Writing 2022 / 2023

Lecturers: Daniel Smilovski, Etienne Ndemezo