Smt. Sukanya K U

Smt. Sukanya K U

Research Associate, KILA & Coordinator- KILA center for SDGs and Local Governance
Kerala institute of Local Administration

• MSc Mathematics,
• MEd Education,
• MSc Psychology,
• PhD Perusing

• NIRD Certified Master Trainer
• MoPR Master Trainer

• Course Director, Trainer, Facilitator, Editor, Advisor, Researcher, National level Mentor of MoPR
• HoD in M.A. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT, Thaliparamba
• Unnathi Project Attapady- Course Director

• Course Director: International Course on Decentralization and Local Governance.
• Prepared training materials and modules
• More than 17 countries participated

• Team Leader: Association with UNICEF Project on Strengthening on Child Friendly Local Governance
• RGSA- MoPR Projects
• Regional Workshop on Panchayat Development Index (PDI)

• The Capacity Conundrum in Decentralization and Local Governance: How Kerala Tackles It” (co-authored by Joy Elamon) in the book “Deepening Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Decentralisation, Co-operativism and Self-Managed Development” edited by Jospeh Tharamangalam and Jos Chathukulam and published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis
• Relationship between Academic Achievements and Socio Economic Status of the Students in Attapady
• Sustainable Development in India: Retrospect and Prospects- Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, New Delhi
• Published an article titled “Relationship between Academic Achievements and Socio-Economic Status of the Students in Attapady” in the journal Frontiers in Education and Research, Volume 12, Issue 1, ISSN: 2277-3576. (2023)
• Published a book titled “Sustainable Development in India: Retrospect and Prospects” with Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-93-91450-92-2. (2023)
• Presented and published a paper titled “Recent Trends and Strategies in Indian Education System in light of NEP 2020” with Army Institute of Education, Greater Noida. ISBN: 978-81-966420-6-8. (2023)
• Published a chapter in “A Chronicle of Educational Research” edited by Dr. K. Rema Devi and published by Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-93-91450-90-8. (2023)
• Co-authored and published a paper in “Reinventing and Reimagining Post Pandemic Society: In Perspectives of Education, Economy and Health”. Army Institute of Education, Greater Noida. ISBN: 978-93-5529-516-3. (2023)
• Published a paper in “Educating Children with Learning Disabilities”. Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-93-91450-14-4. (2023)
• Published a paper in “Education of Children with Special Needs”. Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-93-89484-75-5. (2021)
• Presented a paper titled “Education for Attaining Sustainability” at the Best Practices of Research and Innovations In STEAM Higher Education conference held at Shrimatha Devkunvar Nanalal Bhatt Vaishnav College for Women (Autonomous) in Chromepet, Chennai in 2023.
• Presented a paper titled “Inclusive Education for Sustainable Development: The Need for Localizing Strategy” was presented at the Inclusive Education for Sustainable Development: From Idea To Action conference held at Army Institute of Education in Greater Noida in 2022.
• Participated in the Online Talk Series-9 on Research Ethics and Integrity, conducted by Integral Quality Assurance Cell & Center for Research and Development in collaboration with Council for Teacher Education Foundation (CTEF), N.V.K.S.D College of Education, August 2023.
• Participated as the Resource Person in the Two Day National Seminar on Decentralization and Local Governance in Kerala Retrospect and Prospects, sponsored by Parliamentary Affairs, Govt of Kerala, and organized by the Department of Economics, Govt Victoria College, Palakkad, December 2022.

• National Workshop Human Resources in Panchayats
• National Workshop on PDI
• National Workshop on ISO certification of Panchayats
• National workshop on Aged friendly Gram Panchayat
• National level conference on MoPR and UNFPA
• Two-day national seminar on “Sustainable Development in India: Retrospect and Prospects”

• Sustainable Development Goals and Local Governance system.
• Organizing theme-based workshops/Seminars/FDPs/Exposure visits
• Designing methodology & processes to make GP to Sustainable Development Goals and Local Governance system.

• Preparing training modules on the localization of Sustainable Development Goals
• Developing a web-enabled dashboard for the collection and compilation of data on the localization of SDGs for panchayats
• Documenting and articulating research findings
• Designing capacity-building programs (awareness, training, courses, IEC materials, handholding, etc.)
• Monitoring and evaluating LSDGs progress
• Publishing research findings
• Coordinating state and national level workshops
• My role is to assimilation and dissemination of knowledge on local governance and related topics especially Localization of Sustainable development Goals (LSDGs). The major task in this respect are preparation of the module based on Localization of Sustainable Development Goals and Preparation of the Web enabled Dashboard for collection and compilation of data, for localization of SDGs for panchayats. Documentation, articulating research, designing capacity building programmes (awareness, training, courses, IEC materials, handholding etc). Monitoring and evaluating Localization of SDGs progress, publication, co- ordination of state and national level workshop.
• Documentation of Case Studies

• HoD in M.A. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT, Thaliparamba.
• Coordinator- KILA center for SDGs and Local Governance- MopR
• National Level Mentor for MoPR
• E course development for the National Platform iGot
• Team Leader: Association with UNICEF Project on Localising SDGs for child rights realization and gender equality
• Team Leader: KILA-MoPR Project: “Evaluation of the Incentivization of Panchayats Scheme of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj”-
• Team Leader: KILA-MoPR Project: Non-Part IX Areas Study
• Team Leader: KILA-MoPR Project: Study on Development of Human Resources in Panchayats

• HLP Programme Visit – Bangladesh

• Thematic Approach Paper for UNICEF

• Course Director, Trainer, Facilitator, Editor, Advisor, Researcher, National level Mentor of MoPR
• E course content development- Content Creator
• PDI module preparation- Pocket Diary
• ISO module preparation- National

• Team Leader: Association with UNICEF Project on Localising SDGs for child rights realization and gender equality.
• Team Leader on: Association with UNICEF Project on Strengthening on Child Friendly Local Governance
• Designing of training modules and reading materials execution of identified training and/or research programmes/projects in consultation- MoPR
• Provide assistance to strengthen PRI-SHG convergence- MoPR
• Provide assistance in the preparation of Decentralized Sustainable Development indicators.

• Status of the Panchayati raj Institutions- Prepared the Guidelines.
• Prepared a Report on Evaluation of the Incentivization of Panchayats Scheme of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj”-
• “Study on Development of Human Resources in Panchayats”
• The status of Rural Local Governance System in Non-Part IX areas of the Country
• UNICEF Project Documents- Approach Papers

• Localizing Sustainable Development Goals
• Towards A Local Indicator Framework (LIF)
• Fact sheet of Sustainable Development Goals – Kerala
• Local Governments of Kerala and Impact on School Education-
• Local Governments and Health
• Localisation Of Sustainable Development Goals: Poverty free Village
• Localisation Of Sustainable Development Goals: Healthy Village
• Localisation Of Sustainable Development Goals: Child Friendly Village
• Localisation Of Sustainable Development Goals: Water Sufficient Village
• Localisation Of Sustainable Development Goals: Clean and Green Village
• Localisation Of Sustainable Development Goals: Self Sufficient Infrastructure Village
• Localisation Of Sustainable Development Goals: Socially Secured Village
• Localisation Of Sustainable Development Goals: Village with Good Governance
• Localisation Of Sustainable Development Goals: Gender Friendly Village

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