Dr P SIVAKUMAR

 
  
  Name :Dr P SIVAKUMAR
  Designation :Assistant Professor
  
 
 

 

 

Dr. P. Sivakumar, Head, Department of Development Studies & Head, Centre for Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Analysis (CMEIA), RGNIYD Regional Centre, Chandigarh, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Development Ethics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (Indian Council of Philosophical Research Fellowship). He has Ph.D. from Kerala University and Master's Degrees in Sociology and Philosophy. His areas of research interests include Migration, Sustainable Development Goals, Labour, Policies, and Youth Development. 

 

Being engaged as an academician, researcher and trainer for fifteen years, Dr. Sivakumar has authored books, training manuals, and a number of research articles in journals, edited books and policy publications. His major books Sustainable Development Goals and Migration (Routledge, 2022); Tamil Migrants: A Demographic, Social and Economic Analysis (Orient Blackswan, 2021); and Youth Migration in Emerging India: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities (Orient Blackswan, 2018) discuss the dynamics of migration, its patterns and trends and salient features in the context of Sustainable Development Goals, especially pertaining to the young population. As a Trainer, he has authored Training Manual on Sustainable Development Goals (2017), Training Manual on Youth Employability (2011) and Handbook on Extension (2011).

 

Dr. Sivakumar has served as Drafting committee member of Tamil Nadu State Planning Board (2021-22) and Working group member of Kerala State Planning Board (2021-22) for policy formulations; Peer Reviewer for Commonwealth Youth Programme Project (2020); Technical Working Group Member on Integrating Volunteerism into SDGs constituted by United Nations Volunteers HQ (UNV, 2019-20); Drafting Committee Member on Tamil Nadu State Youth Policy (2014); Team Member to review National Youth Policy 2003 and formulation of New National Youth Policy (2014); Editorial member for International Journal on Migration and Development, Routledge; Peer Reviewer for Sage; and an Expert Group Member on Gender, Youth and Migration, Sub Community of UN Solution Exchange.

 

Dr. Sivakumar has headed a project with UNICEF to prepare (1) Status Papers (2020-21) on five thematic areas such as Internal Migration; Livelihoods of Women in the Informal Sector; Youth Employment/Unemployment; Child Health; and Vocational Education in the Post-COVID-19 scenario; and (2) Policy Briefs on adolescents in Tamil Nadu (2019-20) on six thematic areas such as Ending Child Marriage; Child Protection; Adolescent Health; Education; Nutrition; and Policy Advocacy. He has also been associated with Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) London (2016, 2019-20); Saint Gobain (2017-18); Indian Council of Philosophical Research (2012-13); and Aid et Action (2012) for various research projects.

 

Dr. Sivakumar has attended ‘Commonwealth Higher Education Consortium for Youth Work’ Training Workshop organised by Commonwealth Secretariat-London, The University of West Indies, The Commonwealth of Learning and Bangladesh Open University at Dhaka, Bangladesh (2019) and Commonwealth Conference on Youth Work at Johannesburg, South Africa (2016). He has represented the Government of India to prepare Action Plan for BRICS on Skill Development and Entrepreneurship during BRICS Youth Summit at Guwahati, India (2016); and to formulate SAARC Youth Charter and Action Plan at Male (2014). He was the Coordinator of My Government – Citizen Engagement Platform at RGNIYD constituted by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India (2014).

 

He has delivered over fifty invited lectures organised by various academic institutes and research organisations such as FSL India & CCIVS - under the aegis of UNESCO; Centre for Environment Education (CEE), UNESCO & Ministry of Environment; University of Delhi; Centre for Development Studies; International Justice Mission; Aid et Action; Loyola College; Sacred Heart College; Samvada etc. He has also coordinated various international/national conferences, seminars and workshops in collaboration with various International and National Organisations such as International Labour Organization (ILO); International Organization for Migration (IOM); Commonwealth Youth Programme-London; UNESCO-MGIEP; United Nations Volunteers (UNV); Indian Council of Overseas Employment (ICOE), New Delhi; Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum; Planning Commission of India; and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Germany. In addition, he has coordinated various international programmes such as World Youth Ship Programme (2008); Japanese Delegation Visit at RGNIYD (2007); Asia Regional Consultation on Youth at Risk in Collaboration with Commonwealth Youth Programme (2007); Korean Youth Delegation (Youth Exchange Programme) at RGNIYD (2007) etc. in the beginning of his career.

 

Dr. Sivakumar has contributed to curriculum development of Masters Programmes in ‘Labour and Development’ (IGNOU, New Delhi); 'Development Ethics’ (MA Development Policy and Practice, RGNIYD); and 'Empowerment: Theory and Practice' (MA Youth Empowerment, RGNIYD). He is member of Board of Studies and Doctoral Committees in various universities.

 

Latest Publications

  1. Sivakumar, P. & Rajan, S.I. (2022). Sustainable Development Goals and Migration, Routledge.
  2. Nizam, MA., Sivakumar, P. & Rajan, S.I. (2022). Interstate Migration in India during the Covid-19: An analysis based on Mobile Visitor Location Register and Roaming Data, Journal of South Asian Development (Sage Publications), 17(4), p. 1-26.
  3. Rajan, S.I., Rajagopalan, R. & Sivakumar, P. (2021). The Long Walk towards Uncertainty: The Migrant Dilemma in times of COVID-19 in Hans, Kannabiran, Mohanty & Pushpendra (Eds.) Migration, Workers, and Fundamental Freedoms: Pandemic Vulnerabilities and States of Exception in India, Routledge.
  4. Rajan, S.I., D' Sami, B., Raj, S.A. & Sivakumar, P. (2021). Tamil Migrants: A Demographic, Social and Economic Analysis. Orient Blackswan Publishers.
  5. Rajan, S.I., D' Sami, B., Raj, S.A. & Sivakumar, P. (2021). Tamil Nadu Migration Survey: Demographic and Social Profile in Rajan and Sumeetha (Eds.) Sage Handbook on Internal Migration in India. Sage Publications.
  6. Rajan, S.I., Sivakumar, P. & Srinivasan, A. (2020). The COVID-19 Pandemic and Internal Labour Migration in India: A ‘Crisis of Mobility’. Indian Journal of Labour Economics (Springer) 63, 1021–1039.