Experience

Mykibo

• Rwanda
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO at MyKibo.com

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Here in Kigali, we are building Africa's fastest growing agri-business marketplace online. We promote YOUR African products to the world for FREE. We are proud to be the first e-commerce and trading platform in Africa to go GREEN. We achieve that by planting millions of trees offsetting carbons produced during your essential trades via MyKibo. Here in Kigali, we are building Africa's fastest growing agri-business marketplace online. We promote YOUR African products to the world for FREE. We are proud to be the first e-commerce and trading platform in Africa to go GREEN. We achieve that by planting millions of trees offsetting carbons produced during your essential trades via MyKibo.



Africa Business Jumpstart

• Founder & CEO

  • Mar 2014 - Present

  Hi, I am Dr. Harnet an internationally renowned and certified Africa Business Trainer. I show ambitious entrepreneurs, business owners & start-ups in the Diaspora and friends of Africa how to start doing business in or with Africa FAST. I will show you powerful steps that will allow you to rapidly position yourself in the market as a newcomer while contributing towards Africa’s future. I have spent the last 20 years of my life (7 of them as an entrepreneur) working in and with Africa and I am on a mission to teach you how to become part of Africa's renaissance while building ethical wealth for yourself. I am the co-author of the book '101 Ways to Make Money in Africa' and have been featured on Forbes Africa, the Africa Club of Air France/KLM, Newsweek, the high-profile Africa CEO Forum, and spoke at Google among other. I also lead a growing and ambitious Africa Business Academy group online, and regularly lead Business & Investment Missions to Africa. Show less



Senior International Development Consultant for Africa (self-employed)

• Frankfurt/London

• International Development Consultant for Africa

  • Jul 2011 - Jun 2015

  Worked in Eastern Africa within the European Commission's beneficiary framework contracts. • Assisted the Ministry of Agriculture in the final preparation of six Grant Applications including Project Description, Methodology, Sustainability, Logframe and Budgets to be submitted to the EC. • Conduction of workshops for various regional MoA offices to discuss and assist with the preparation of the national Agricultural Support Programme under the 10th EDF including grant applications, Programme Estimates, project implementation, and operational systems. • MoA Institutional Assessment Show less



Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA)

• London & Eritrea

• Programme Coordinator

  • Dec 2001 - Dec 2010

  Thirteen (13) years of key expertise in rural development in Africa, particularly food security, pastoralism, agriculture, and rural livelihoods. Specific expertise in crop and livestock production systems, natural resource management, invasive plant species and related control strategies, desertification & regeneration of degraded lands, innovative livestock fodder production technologies for pastoral communities, socio-economic community empowerment and income generating diversification, gender, production & market development, capacity building, training & institutional support (CBOs and agricultural extension services). Key skills regarding the above include: full programme management cycles (programme formulation, preparation of work plans, budgeting, coordination, M&E). Formulation of result-oriented programme strategies for maximum policy impact, socio-economic analysis. • Responsible the full programme circles of PENHA’s food security and livelihood programmes in Eritrea and the Sudan. • Lead the implementation of a Pastoralist Market Production Centre in Geluj, Gash Barka. • Acted as a member of the advising committee to the FAO / MoA on a national Early Livestock Warning System in Eritrea; • Carried out in-depth analysis of national development agendas and policies for strategic planning and advocacy • Designed an innovative fodder production programme, which is being disseminated by the Ministry of Science and Technology in Kassala State, Sudan. • Acted as a local strategic planning adviser to Oxfam Int. and Norwegian People's Aid • Lead donor and counterpart communication with MoA, MoLWE, FAO, UNFPA, Oxfam Novib, IFAD, UNDP, NPA; Show less