Shyam Singh, PhD Associate Professor in Social Sciences, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat, India- 388001 shyamready@gmail.com shyam@irma.ac.in Phone: 02692-221634 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS PhD in Political Science, 2012, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India M.Phil. in Political Science, 2006, GG Central University Bilaspur, India M.A. in Political Science, 2004, CSJM University Kanpur, UP, India ACADEMIC POSITIONS & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS -------- 1. Associate Professor, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat, since 1 st Sept 2018. 2. Scholar-in-Residence, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium, April- June, 2018. 3. Assistant Professor, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat, 1 st July 2013 31 st August 2018. 4. Research Coordinator, Oxfam India, New Delhi, March-June, 2013 5. Senior Program Manager (Research), Samarthan Centre for Development Support, Bhopal from 7 th Dec, 2011-17 th March 2013 6. Research Fellow, Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, Bangalore, from 16 th Dec, 2010-10 th Sept, 2011 7. Research Officer, MSKPP-Women s Empowerment Centre Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, from 1 st Oct, 2006-31 st July, 2007. 8. Field Supervisor in the project titled A Multi-State Socio-Economic Study of Women with Disabilities in Chhattisgarh State, sponsored by UNDP and Government of India, from 1 st July, 2006-30 th Sept, 2006. 9. Lecturer (Ad hoc), Department of Political Science, Tilak P.G. Collage, Auraiya, UP (affiliated with CSJM University Kanpur, UP), Sept 2004 - Feb 2005. METHODOLOGICAL TRAINING 1. Evaluation for Development Programs, 13-17 Nov, 2017, organized by London International Development Centre (LIDC), London, UK. 2. Introduction to Social Network Analysis, 5 9, June, 2017, the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Centre (SESYNC), University of Maryland, USA. 3. Strengthening National Monitoring and Evaluation Capacities and Use: National Evaluation Societies as a Driving Force, 17-28 Oct, 2016, Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
4. Impact Evaluation Beyond Surveys, 1 5 June, 2015, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS 1. VLIR-UOS Scholarship to attend a short course on Monitoring and Evaluation at IOB, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Oct, 2016 2. Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Doctoral Fellowship for the period of 2007-2010, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India 3. Recipient of Prof. D. M. Nanjundappa Endowment Best Scholar Award for 2007-08, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India 4. SRTT (Sir Ratan Tata Trust) Fellowship to present a research paper in the Political Science World Congress 2009 held in Santiago, Chile during 12-16 July, 2009. RESEARCH INTERESTS Thematic & Conceptual Development Evaluation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Policy, Social Networks, CSR Methods Social Network Analysis, Text Network Analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative Methods, Content Analysis (Qualitative Coding) TEACHING Postgraduate Course 1. Research Methods 2. Public Policy Analysis 3. Monitoring and Evaluation for Development Interventions FPRM (PhD) Courses 1. Qualitative Research Methods MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS (EXECUTIVE TRAININGS) 1. Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods 2. Qualitative Methods of Impact Evaluation 3. Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Interventions RESEARCH GRANTS & DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANCY ----- Ongoing 1. Developing Evaluation Capacities of Department of Evaluation Officers, Government of Gujarat, a research grant provided by UNICEF, Gujarat (Co-PI).
2. A study on Sustainability of Dairy Cooperative Societies organized under National Dairy Plan I National Dairy Development Board, Government of India, 2017-18 (Co-PI) Completed 1. Impact Assessment of SRI on Quality of Life, research grant by the Tata Trusts 2016-17 (Co-PI) 2. Financial Inclusion of Low Income Households, research grant by J P Morgan Foundation, 2016-17 (Co-PI) 3. Third Party Evaluation of EMRS (Eklavya Model Residential School) Program, Gujarat Tribal Education Society, Govt. of Gujarat, 2016 (Lead-PI) 4. Impact Evaluation of National Dairy Plan Interventions on Women s empowerment in Indian Dairy Sector, funded by the Government of India and World Bank, November 2014-Jan 2016 (Co-PI) 5. Impact Evaluation of Ration Balancing Program under the National Dairy Plan- Phase I, funded by Government of India and World Bank (Co-PI) 6. The Culture of Evaluation, a research grant by ISST New Delhi, supported by IDRC and Ford Foundation, April Sept, 2015 (Co-PI) 7. Mid-Term Impact Evaluation of CSR Initiatives of Axis Bank Foundation, Jan-March 2015 (Co-PI) 8. Mid-Term Impact Evaluation of CCD-Axis Bank Foundation Farmers Livelihoods Program, 2015 (Co-PI) 9. Status of the Implementation of Community Participation Law across Indian States, CIVIC Bangalore, Dec 2011- Jan 2012 (Lead-PI) 10. Program Evaluation of Women s SHGs and Microfinance Activities in Chhattisgarh, granted by SWISSAID India, Dec 2012 Jan 2013 (Co-PI) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Chapters in Edited Books 1. Promoting Peace Justice and Strong Institutions: Role of Panchayats, in Rajesh Kumar Sinha edited Sustainable Development Goals and Panchayats, Rawat Publication, New Delhi, 2018. 2. JNNURM Case Study in Amitabh Behar, Yogesh Kumar and John Samual, eds., Citizen s Report on Governance and Development 2013, Daanish Books, New Delhi, 2014. 3. The BSP and Dalit Empowerment: Dilemmas and Contradictions in Ravindra Sastry and G Ram Reddy, eds. Empowerment: State, Governance and Beyond India Research Press, New Delhi, 2014. 4. World Social Science Report 2010: A Critique in Claude Alvares and Shad Saleem Faruqi, eds. Decolonising The University: The Emerging Quest for Non-Eurocentric Paradigms, University Sains Malaysia Press, Penang, 2012.
Publications in Journals 1. Bridging Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Culture of Monitoring and Evaluation of CSR Initiatives in India (with Nathalie Holvoet and Vivek Pandey), Sustainability, Vol. 10, No. 7, 2353, 2018 2. How Secure Social Security is? A Situational Analysis of Social Pensions in Madhya Pradesh (with Yogesh Kumar), Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. LXI, No. 4, Oct-Dec, 2015 3. Rehabilitation of Slum Dwellers: A Case Study in Bhopal (with Yogesh Kumar), Social Change (Sage), Vol. 44, No. 4, 2014, pp. 567-578. 4. MDGs and Post-2015 Development Agenda: Prospects for Indian Civil Society (with Yogesh Kumar), Social Change (Sage), Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 249-261. 5. Politics and Public Policies: Politics of Human Development in Uttar Pradesh (with V. Anil Kumar), Artha Vijnana, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2012, (Published in July 2013) 6. Citizen Participation in Urban Governance: Quest for Transparency and Accountability, Environment and Urbanization ASIA (Sage Pub), Vol. 4, No. 1, 2013, pp: 191-202. 7. Empowerment from the Above: Responses and Impact of Social Security Schemes in UP, Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2013, pp 47-59. 8. World Social Science Report 2010- Whither India and South Asia? Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 46, No. 1, January 1, 2011. pp 10-12. 9. Three Years of the BSP Government in Uttar Pradesh, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45, No. 38, September 18, 2010. pp 77-81. Working Papers (Peer-reviewed) 1. Politics and Public Policies- Politics of Human Development Policies in Uttar Pradesh (with V. Anil Kumar), ISEC Working Paper Series, No. 287, July, 2012. 2. Dalit Movement and Emergence of the BSP in Uttar Pradesh: Politics and Priorities, ISEC Working Paper Series, No. 242, April, 2010. Research Report (Peer-reviewed) 1. Financing Small and Medium Towns: An Action Research Study from Bemetara Town in India (With Yogesh Kumar and Shrdha Kumar), Research Report No. 10, 2017, Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, Visby, Sweden. Available at: https://icld.se/static/files/kc-2017- kumar-y-singh-s-kumar-s-financing-small-and-medium-towns.pdf Article Published in Magazines/Newspapers 1. A Missing Agenda, The Indian Express, March 18, 2014, http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/a-missing-agenda/ 2. How Feasible and Effective would Mohalla Samitis be in Urban Madhya Pradesh, Mainstream (New Delhi), Vol. L, No 38, Sept 13, 2012. 3. BSP s Route to 2012, Mainstream (New Delhi), Vol XLIX, No 15, April 2, 2011. 4. Are We Missing the Morale of the Economy, Mainstream (New Delhi), Vol. XLVIII, No. 33, 7 th August, 2010.
5. Khaps stand goes against Hindu culture Hindustan Times (Lucknow), June 8 th, 2010 6. Inequalities in Development published in The New Indian Express, Bangalore, 27 th January, 2009. www.expressbuzz.com Internal (Organizational) Publications 1. Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education: Delivering the Promises of the Law, (with Anjela Taneja and Lucy Dubochet), a policy brief for Oxfam India, April 2013. 2. Asian Development Bank and Food Security: A Picture in India (with Saudamini Zutshi), a policy brief for Oxfam India, May 2013. CONFERENCES/SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS International 1- Who will guarantee the guarantors? Experiences of implementation of right to public services guarantee act in Madhya Pradesh state of India paper presented at State of Accountability Conference, organized by International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and National Law School University, Bangalore, India, at The Hague, 17-18 Oct, 2017. 2- Participatory research of praxis What do local people have to offer in knowledge building, paper presented at 15th Development Dialogue, organized by International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 11-13 Oct, 2017. 3- 'Rights based approach to development: Implications to financial and governance capacity of the Indian state in delivering social protection measures' paper presented at 14th Development Dialogue, organized by International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 21-22 Nov, 2016 4- Public policies fail when they do not deliver political messages: Role of political organizations in delivering public policies, paper at the international conference on Public Policy in Asia, organized by Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 26-27 May, 2014. 5- Can rights based social protection approach help poor? Challenges of graduation from poverty in India, paper at the international conference on Graduation and Social Protection, organized by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex and the Ministry of Local Government, Government of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, 6-8 May, 2014. 6- Political Regimes and Social Security: An Emerging Framework paper at the Global South Workshop 2011, organized by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and Gajdah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 28 Nov 2 Dec, 2011. 7- World Social Science Report 2010: A Critique, paper at international conference on Decolonizing Our Universities, organized by University Sains Malaysia and Citizen International, Penang, Malaysia, 27-29 June, 2011 8- Institutional Paucity and Governance: Role of Caste in the Service Delivery in Rural India, paper at the Development Dialogue, organized by The International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, 6-7 June, 2011.
9- Institutional Paucity and Governance: Role of Caste in the Service Delivery in Rural India, paper at HDCA annual conference, organized by Human Development Capability Association, The Hague, Netherlands, 6-8 September, 2011 10- Cornering Urban and Preferring Rural: Politics of Empowerment in India, paper at International Conference on the Empowerment of Civil Society in Urban Politics, organized by the UNESCO Chair on Urban Politics and Citizenship, Porquerolles Island, France, 31 st October- 2 nd November, 2009. 11- Politics and Public Policies: Social Welfare and Human Development Policies in Uttar Pradesh, India (co-authored with Dr. V Anil Kumar), paper at Fourth International Conference on Public Policy and Management, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, 9-12 August, 2009,. 12- Social Capital: A Complementary Concept to the State in Sustainable Development and Environment Protection, paper at Political Science World Congress 2009, Santiago, Chile, 12-16 July, 2009. 13- Representative Democracy, Leadership and Women: Insights from Rural Area paper at the International Conference on Citizenship and Governance organized by Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) New Delhi and Citizenship DRC, UK, New Delhi, 27-29 Feb, 2008. 14- E-Governance in Search of Good Governance, paper at the International Conference on Management, Icfai Business School, Ahmadabad, 27-29 Dec, 2007. 15- Challenges and Options before Women s Movement in Chhattisgarh paper at the International Conference on Women s Situation and Women s Study: A South Asian Perspective, North Bengal University Darjeeling, 8-19 December, 2006. National 1- Beyond Leading: Explicating Collective Leadership in Community Based Organizations through Social Network Analysis, (co-authored with Bikalp Chamola) presented at the national conference on Rural India: Blossoming in Neglect? Organized by Vikas Anvesh Foundation, Pune, 28-29 August, 2018. 2- 'Tensions of urban local bodies and the federal government' presentation made at the Learning Sharing Workshop on Urban Governance, organized by Samarthan Centre for Development Support, Raipur, 30 August, 2016. 3- Do we really want to see the Impact? A review of evaluation practices in women empowerment programs under CSR initiatives, paper presented in a national conference organized by, RGMVP, New Delhi, 7th May, 2016 4- Culture of Evaluation: Women Empowerment Programs under CSR Initiatives, presented in a workshop on Engendered Evaluation, organized by Niti Ayog & ISST, New Delhi, 16 Oct, 2015. 5- Role of Panchayati Raj Institutions in the Implementation of National Food Security Act 2013, paper at the national seminar on National Food Security Act- Challenges in Securing Right to Food for the People, organized by the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, 15-16 July, 2014. 6- Exiting versus Sustainability: Post-implementation scenario of urban housing in rehabilitated slum settlements in Bhopal paper at the National Conference on Urban Poverty, organized by the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, 11-12 Feb, 2013.
7- Bringing theory into action- Status and prospects of decentralized planning in urban India, paper at 28 th Skoch Summit on Mainstreaming the Marginalized, New Delhi, 27-28 March, 2012. 8- Community Participation Law across States, paper at the national consultation on How Inclusive are our Cities? Implications for 12 th Five Year Plan, organized by CIVIC Bangalore, India Habitat Forum and Hazard Centre, Bangalore, 27-28 Jan, 2012. 9- The BSP and Dalit Empowerment: Dilemmas and Contradictions, paper at the national conference, Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Political Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 28-29 April, 2010. 10- NREGS in Indian States- Does it Make Difference? paper at the national seminar on Rural Transformation and Development, MP Institute of Social Science Research, Ujjain, MP, 17-18 March, 2009. 11- Economic Reforms and Social Security in India: Post-Reforms Scenario of Social Security in India, paper at the national conference, Department of Political Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 27-29 March 2008. 12- Feminism and Women s Movement in Chhattisgarh paper at 53 rd All India Political Science Conference, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 27-29 Dec. 2006. WORKSHOPS 1- Participated in a panel discussion on National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, organized by Social Watch India, New Delhi, 17 Dec, 2013. 2- Participated in the strategy session on the use of ICT for transparency and accountability in governance, organized by the Open Society Foundation, New York, 27-30 Nov, 2012. 3- Participated in a capacity building program Promoting Democratic Institutions and Practices organized by the Asia Foundation, Dhaka, 22 April- 26 April, 2012. 4- Participated in seven days UGC sponsored workshop on Rights Tools for Sustainable Development, organized by the Department of Political Science, Presidency College, University of Madras on 18-24 August, 2008. 5- Participated in two weeks Data Analysis Programme in Social Sciences, organized by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, 6-18 November 2006. 6- Participated in five days workshop on Gender Equity through Enterprise Development organized by WSDC, Guru Ghasidas University Bilaspur, held on 16-20 th May, 2006 and sponsored by NIESBUD, Ministry of Small Scale, Govt. of India. OTHER ENGAGAMENTS 1. Member, Expert Committee for the selection of National CSR Award Winners, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, 2018. 2. Member, Second Common Review Mission, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, Feb-March, 2017. 3. Mentor under EvalYouth International Mentorship program on Monitoring and Evaluation, 2017-18.