Faculty Profile

Profile Summary

• Dr. Shyam Singh is a Professor in Social Sciences at IRMA. Dr. Singh holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore. He was the Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2018. He has been engaged in various evaluation and research assignments with UNICEF, the World Bank, NABARD, and state and central governments. Dr. Singh was also an expert committee member, constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, for the National CSR Award 2018 and 2020. He was part of the Second National Common Review Mission, constituted by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.
  
  Dr. Singh is currently an advisor to the JSLPS, Rural Development Department, Government of Jharkhand. He is the Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Evaluation. Dr. Singh is the Co-Chair of Consortium of Institutions on M&E Education in Asia Pacific. He is also a theme leader for the theme -Building Partnership- under the Regional Evaluation Strategy, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association.
  
  His research interests include community development and governance, monitoring and evaluation, CSR, and social networks. He teaches Rural Society and Polity, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Social Network Analysis at IRMA.

Awards

Awards

• Recipient of Prof. D. M. Nanjundappa Endowment Best Scholar Award for 2007-08, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India

Fellowships

• Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Doctoral Fellowship for the period of 2007-2010, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India
• 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.

Academics

• B.Sc. with Mathematics & Physics, CSJM University Kanpur, UP, India

• M.A. in Political Science, CSJM University Kanpur, UP, India

• M.Phil. in Political Science, GG Central University Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India

• PhD in Political Science, 2012, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore

• Associate Professor, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), 1st Sept, 2018 onwards

• Assistant Professor, Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Anand, Gujarat, 1st July 2013 to 31st Aug 2018.

• Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium, April-June, 2018

• Research Coordinator, Oxfam India, New Delhi, March-June, 2013

• Senior Program Manager (Research), Samarthan Centre for Development Support, Bhopal from 7th Dec, 2011 - 17th March 2013

• Research Fellow, Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, Bangalore, from 16th Dec, 2010 - 10th Sept, 2011

• Research Officer, MSKPP-Womena??s Empowerment Centre Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, from 1st Oct, 2006 - 31st July, 2007.

• Field Supervisor in the project titled a??A Multi-State Socio-Economic Study of Women with Disabilitiesa?? in Chhattisgarh State, sponsored by UNDP and Government of India, from 1st July, 2006 - 30th Sept, 2006.

• Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Tilak P.G. Collage, Auraiya, UP (affiliated with CSJM University Kanpur, UP), Sept 2004 - Feb 2005.

Courses

• Monitoring and Evaluation for Development Interventions

• Rural Society and Polity

• Introduction to Social Networks: Theory and Application

• Public Policy Analysis

• Development Theories and Praxis

• Monitoring and Evaluation

• Rural Research Methods

• Development Perspectives: Concept and Theories

• Rural Society, Culture and Polity

• Development Theories

• Research Methods

Journal(Article)

• Singh, S., & Christie, N. (2022). Are business friends social too? Understanding information sharing in an Indian dairy cooperative through a relational sociology lens. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.

• Vivek Pandey, Shyam Singh, Deepak Kumar, `COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption`, Food Policy; 110

• Shyam Singh, Nathalie Holvoet, Sara Dewatcher, 2021. A Relational Understanding of co-Eudcating and Learning: Information Sharing and Advice Seeking Behavor in a diary Cooperative in Gujarat, India, Journal of Cooperative Organiation and Management 9(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcom.2021.100150

• Shyam Singh, (2020), Civil society-mediated governance: Making social securtiy programs work through public hearings in India. Journal of Public Affairs. E2477. Sept 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2477

• Vivek Pandey, Shyam Singh & Jeemol Unni (2020), Markets and spilover Effects of Political Institutions in Promoting Women`s Empowerment: Evidence from India, Feminist Economics: May 2020

• Vivek Pandey, Shyam singh & Jeemol Unni (2020)Spill-over Effects of Formal Political Institutions and Development Market Interventions on Women Empowerment: Non-Experimental Evidence from India,Feminist Economics

• Shyam Singh,Yogesh Kumar and Rakesh Arrawatia (2019) Can disincentives bring accountability in governance? Experiences of Right to Public Services Guarantee Act in Madhya Pradesh State of India` Journal of Public Affairs,e1966.

• Shyam Singh, Nathalie Holvoet, vivek Pandey (2018), Bridging Sustanability and Corporate Social Responsibility: Culture of Monitoring and Evaluation of CSR Initiatives in India, Sustainability (Switzerland), 10 (7), July, doi:10.3390/su10072353

• Kumar, Y and Singh, S ((2014) `Rehabilitation of Slum Dwellers: A Case Study in Bhopal` Social Change (Sage Pub), Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 567-578.

• Kumar, Y and Singh, S (2014) `MDGs and Post-2015 Development Agenda: Prospects for Indian Civil Society`, Social Change (Sage Pub), Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 249-261.

• Singh, S (2013) `Citizen Participation in Urban Governance: Quest for Transparency and Accountability`, Environment and Urbanization ASIA (Sage Pub), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp: 191-202.

• Singh, S (2013) `Empowerment from the Above: Responses and Impact of Social Security Schemes in UP`, Journal of Rural Development, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp 47-59.

• Singh, S and Kumar, VA (2013) `Politics and Public Policies: Politics of Human Development in Uttar Pradesh`, Artha Vijnana, Vol. 54, No. 4

• Singh, S (2011) `World Social Science Report 2010- Whither India and South Asia?` Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 46, No. 1, January 1, pp 10-12.

• Singh, S (2010) `Three Years of the BSP Government in Uttar Pradesh`, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45, No. 38, September 18, pp 77-81.

Article in reputed national newspaper and EPW

• A Missing Agenda`, The Indian Express, March 18, 2014

Books Authored

• De, Indranil, Shyam Singh and Shilpi Smita Panda. (2021). Social Norms, Gender and Collective Behaviour: Development Paradigms in India. Palgrave Macmillan

Chapters in Edited Books

• Singh, S. (2022). Policy Response to Pandemic: COVID-19 SOPs and Guidelines. In COVID-19 Pandemic, Public Policy, and Institutions in India (pp. 15-29). Routledge.

• Promoting Peace Justice and Strong Institutions: Role of Panchayats`, in Rajesh Kumar Sinha edited Sustainable Development Goals and Panchayats, Rawat Publication, New Delhi, 2018

• Singh S. (2018), `Promote Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, in Rajesh K. Sinha, ed. `Sustainable Development Goals and Panchayats`, Rawat Publications, New Delhi

• Yogesh Kumar, Shyam Singh (2015) How Secure Social Security is A Situational Analysis of Social Pensions in Madhya Pradesh,Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol. LXI, No. 4,

• Shyam Singh (2014) `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.

Workshop

National

• Shyam Singh Presented paper on Culture of Evaluation: Women Empowerment Programs under the CSR Initiatives at workshop on Engendered Evaluation, organized by Niti Ayog and ISST, New Delhi; October 16, 2015.

Seminars

• Shyam Singh presented paper on `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.

Conference

International

• Shyam Singh Presented paper on How `participatory` participatory methodologies are? A case of participatory evaluation of a watershed development program in India, at the international conference by the Community of Evaluators- South Asia, Sri Lanka; July 18-19, 2019.
• Shyam Singh Presented paper on Participatory Research of Praxis: What do Local People have to offer in Knowledge Building at international conference on 15th Development Dialogue by the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands; October 11-13, 2017
• Shyam Singh Presented a paper on 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
• Shyam Singh presented paper on `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.
• Shyam Singh presented paper on 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

National

• Presented a paper at the ICMIAM 2021 titled `Effects of rural social networks and their contributions` 12 Dec, 2021
• Presented a paper at the ICA research conference, 29-30, Nov, 2021, Seoul. South Korea. Title: ?Do cooperatives drive social change? A relational analysis of a dairy cooperative of Gujarat, India?
• Presented a paper at the ICA Europe Conference 7-9 July, 2021. Title: Cooperatives and Social inclusion: A Case of an Indian Dairy Cooperative
• Presented a paper at the conference titled social cohesion and non-discrimination?, International Social Justice Forum 2021, Indonesia 10 June 2021. Title: Community monitoring and self-help group efficacy: Identification of pathways and mechanisms.
• Shyam Singh Presented paper on Evaluation Methodologies: Participatory Evaluation in India, at the EvalFest 2010, organized by the Evaluation Community of India, New Delhi; February 12-14, 2020
• Shyam Singh presented a paper in national conference on `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
• Shyam Singh Who will guarantee the guarantors? Experiences of implementation of Right to Public Service Guarantee Act in Madhya Pradesh, paper presented at international conference on `the State of Accountability`, organized by International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, during 17-18 Oct, 2017
• Shyam Singh presented a paper on 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
• Shaym Singh presented a paper titled 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
• 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

Working Papers

• WP#328
  Community Monitoring and SHG Efficacy: Identification of Pathways and Mechanisms
  Author(s): Satyendra Chandra Pandey, Vivek Pandey, Shyam Singh
  Sep-2021

• WP#306
  Sanitation and Social Norms: A Study on Villages in Gujarat and West Bengal
  Author(s): Indranil De, Shyam Singh
  May-2020

• WP#302
  Gender and Agriculture: Cases of Woman Participation in Rural Odisha
  Author(s): Shilpi Smita Panda, Indranil De, Shyam Singh
  Feb-2020

• WP#297
  Social Norms and Women?s Workforce Participation
  Author(s): Indranil De, Shyam Singh, Shilpi Smita Panda
  Nov-2019

• WP#287
  Are Dairy Relations Social too? Social Network Analysis of a Dairy Cooperative Society in Gujarat
  Author(s): Shyam Singh, Neha Christie
  Dec-2018

MDP-Coordinated

• Leadership and Management Development Programme for Elected Representatives and Functionaries of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, (May 26 - 30, 2025)

• Leadership and Management Development Programme for Elected Representatives and Functionaries of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, (August 19 - 23, 2024)

• Community Based Programme Management for National Health Mission, Odisha, (January 9 - 12, 2024)

• Fostering Co-operation and Co-operative Enterprises: Role of the Government for the Officials of the Department of Co-operation, Government of Odisha, (May 22 - 28, 2023)

• Fostering Co-operation and Co-operative Enterprises: Role of the Government for the Officials of the Department of Co-operation, Government of Odisha, (April 17 - 23, 2023)

• Training to the Elected Representatives and Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (March 13 - 17, 2023)

• Fostering Co-operation and Co-operative Enterprises: Role of the Government for the Officials of the Department of Co-operation, Government of Odisha, (March 2 - 8, 2023)

• Training for the Newly Recruited Pro-Deputy Registrars of Co-operative Societies, Tamil Nadu, (February 27 - March 5, 2023)

• Training to the Elected Representatives and Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (January 30 - February 3, 2023)

• Training to the Elected Representatives and Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (January 9 - 13, 2023)

• Training to the Elected Representatives and Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (December 6 - 10, 2022)

• Training to the Elected Representatives and Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (October 31 - November 4, 2022)

• Fostering Co-operation and Co-operative Enterprises: Role of the Government for the Officials of the Department of Co-operation, Government of Odisha, (October 17 - 21, 2022)

• Training to the Elected Representatives and Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (October 17 - 21, 2022)

• Fostering Co-operation and Co-operative Enterprises: Role of the Government for the Officials of the Department of Co-operation, Government of Odisha, (October 10 - 14, 2022)

• Training to the Elected Representatives and Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (September 26 - 30, 2022)

• Training to the Elected Representatives and Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (August 8 - 12, 2022)

• Training to the Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (July 11 - 15, 2022)

• Training to the Elected Representatives and Officers of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department, Tamil Nadu, (June 13 - 17, 2022)

• Rural Immersion Programme for Newly Inducted Meghalaya Civil Service Officers (Batch 2021), (December 16 - 18, 2021)

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, (February 20 - 22, 2020)

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, (December 18 - 20, 2019)

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, (November 14 - 16, 2019)

• Introduction to Social Network Analysis, (June 6 - 7, 2019)

• Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programmes, (October 10 - 12, 2018)

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, (July 18 - 20, 2018)

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, (May 8 - 10, 2017)

• Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programmes, (January 16 - 19, 2017)

• Impact Evaluation Training Program, (November 17 - 21, 2016)

• Impact Evaluation Summer School, (September 26 - 30, 2016)

• Rural Immersion Programme, (September 23 - 25, 2016)

• Concurrent Monitoring and Evaluation of Schemes - Responsibilities of Implementing Partners for Indian Forest Service Officers, (June 9 - 10, 2016)

• Impact Evaluation, (March 1 - 5, 2016)

• IRMA Impact Evaluation Winter School, (November 30 - December 9, 2015)

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, (November 26 - 28, 2015)

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, (March 26 - 28, 2015)

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, (November 19 - 21, 2014)

MDP-Instructed

• Communication and Programme Management for National Health Mission, Odisha, (January 31 - February 3, 2024)

• Information Management and Documentation for National Health Mission, Odisha, (January 22 - 25, 2024)

• Training for Area Managers of Tata Trusts (Campus Connect-2), (February 5 - 12, 2023)

• Project Management for Managers of ChildFund India, (December 28 - 30, 2022)

• Writing Bootcamp for Development Professionals, (November 28 - 30, 2022)

• Training for Area Managers of Tata Trusts (Campus Connect-1), (August 17 - 28, 2022)

• Training for Area Managers of Tata Trusts (Campus Connect-2), (May 19 - 26, 2022)

• Rural Immersion Programme for Senior Executives of HDFC Bank, (May 10 - 14, 2022)

• Senior Management Programme for TransUnion CIBIL Limited, (March 9 - 10, 2021)

• Project Life Cycle Management, (October 6 - 9, 2020)

• General Management and Leadership Programme (GMP), (February 26 - March 10, 2018)

• Rural Immersion Programme for the Students of Unitedworld School of Business, (January 29 - 31, 2018)

• Effective CSR Implementation for Aditya Birla Group CSR Executives, (May 15 - 19, 2017)

• &Training of Trainers & Monitoring/Evaluation Aspects for Projects& for Better Cotton Initiative, (April 12 - 15, 2016)

• Monitoring and Evaluation, (February 23 - 25, 2016)

• IRMA Impact Evaluation Summer School 2015 (A Training Programme to Build Research Capacity in Impact Evaluation, (May 18 - 23, 2015)

• General Management Programme (GMP), (January 19 - February 7, 2015)

• Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation, (January 20 - 24, 2014)

• General Management Programme, (January 6 - 25, 2014)

Research and Consulting

Completed

• VKCoE-Social Network Analysis of Patronage of Dairy Cooperatives Members in Gujarat, India (Coordinator)
• Sustainability of Dairy Cooperative Societies organized under NDP I (Member)
• Consultancy for ICLD report (Coordinator)
• Third Party Evaluation of the PPP model schools GS (Coordinator)
• Study on Impact Assessment & Evaluation of RBP (Member)
• Axis Bank -CCD Project (Member)
• Saksham (Member)
• National Dairy Plan I (Member)
• Prepare a paper on &Local Self Govt in Indaia& (Coordinator)

On going

• IFC Study (Member)
• Yashraj Bharati Samman(YBS) for 2024 (Coordinator)
• Development & Institutionalization of RBM Course/Capsules for Govt,CSO & Development Professionals - VKPL (Coordinator)
• Study on Comprehensive Review of Panchayat Finances and Measures to Augment their Revenues (Member)
• Yashraj Bharati Samman (YBS) 2025 (Coordinator)
• RBM Phase II (Coordinator)
• Panel Data Study of Tamil Nadu Rural Transformation Project (Member)
• Developing Evaluation Capacity for GoG-UNICEF (Member)
• Social Norms Knowledge Hub(SNKH) (Member)
• UNICEF-Development of Evaluation Capacity of GOG (Member)
• JP Morgan GFI Grant (Member)
• Impact Assessment of INVENT Program (Member)
• Selection of National CSR Aards 2020 (Coordinator)
• Evaluation of M&E Farm and Proj Proc Sustainable Food and Nutrition Sec & Transforming Smallholders Livelihood in MP (Member)
• Impact Assessment of WHO&s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control(FCTC) in India-A call to Action Report 2021 (Part 1) (Coordinator)
• (NABARD) Conduct of Impact Evaluation Study on FPOs (Member)
• UNICEF- Study on Covid-19 Lockdown (Member)
• Impact Assessment of Infrastructures Supported by TVS SST Across 4 Clusters in Tamil Nadu (Member)
• IICA-Short listing/filed visits/verifications etc. in respect of the National CSR Awards 2022 (Coordinator)
• Yashraj Bharati Samman(YBS) (Coordinator)
• Impact evaluation assignment for Rejuvenating Watersheds for Agricultural Resilience through Innovative Development Program (REWARD PROGRAM) (Coordinator)
• Monitoring, Learning & Documentation for Localization of (SDGs) (Coordinator)
• Conducting of Gap Analysis By IRMA of VAMNICOM,RICMs and ICMs (Member)
• Research Study on Impact of Agri tech Startups and Their Contribution to the Society (Coordinator)
• LIC HFL-IRMA Social Trailblazer Program (Member)
• Study on the governance & public finance bottlenecks for improved service delivery at school level (Member)
• Impact Assessment of SST&s Initiatives in the State of Tamil Nadu (Member)
• Conducting Baseline Survey and end-line survey,process monitoring and evaluation of JASHN Project (Member)
• Evaluating Cisco Agri Challenge under the Prize Programme(NLF) (Member)
• Conducting Final/ End-line Evaluation of PMKSY-WC projects of Batch -I, II and III (Member)

Faculty Recognition

• Member of Expert Committee, National CSR Awards 2020 instituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (Government of India) [2020]

• Reviewer: Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy [2019]

• Reviewer: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy [2019]

• Served as Member of Expert Committee, National CSR Awards 2018 instituted by Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India [2018]

• Participated in a panel discussion on `National Commission for Scheduled Tribes`, organized by Social Watch India, New Delhi; December 17, 2013. [2013]

• CV 2023