Area of Expertise

ECONOMICS

Work Experience

Oscar Mathias Mpasa works as Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Rural Development and Regional Planning of the Institute of Rural Development Planning. He is an Economist with 6+ years of experience as a researcher, trainer and consultant in the field of Economics. He also have experience in the field of Educational Management and administration.

Professional Skills

• Proposal writing
• Processing and statistical analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. Also, effective in writing and presenting the complex scientific research results in a clear and succinct manner
• Designing online mobile data collection platforms using most current technologies, i.e. Survey Solutions and OpenDataKit (ODK).
• Experienced in the use and applications of statistical packages such as SPSS, Statistica and R-Statistical Software for data mining and perform complex statistical analysis, such as Multinomial Linear Regressions.

Research and academic Interests

Main research and academic interest is on various economics field, project planning monitoring and evaluation as well as gender related issues