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Dr. Jyothi Krishnan
Emp Code- P80480, Associate Professor, HoD & Course-Coordinator
Department of Disaster Management
MSW, PhD
Email: jyothikr07@gmail.com

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD from Centre for Water and Climate, Wageningen University, Netherlands
  • MSW from Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Domain Expertise

  • Disaster Management
  • Livelihood Security of Vulnerable Communities
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Watershed Management
  • Decentralisation and Local Governance
  • Tribal Development
  • Social Accountability

Experience and Contact address

Email: jyothikr07@gmail.com

Selected Scholastic Contributions

BOOKS

  • Enclosed Waters. Property Rights, Technology and Ecology in the Management of Water Resources in Palakkad, Kerala (2009), Wageningen University Water Series, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-8125036920

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Krishnan, Jyothi. 2013. Property Rights, Water Resources, and Technology: The Missing Ecological Link in Roth, Dik and Linden Vincent (ed). Controlling the Water. Matching Technology and Institutions in Irrigation Management in India and Nepal. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. ISBN-978-0198082927
  • George, Abey and Jyothi Krishnan. 2008. From the Other End: Tribals and Democratic Decentralisation in Kerala. In India’s Development: Social and Economic Disparities. (Eds). S. Mahendra Dev and K.S. Babu, New Delhi: Manohar. ISBN – 9788173047893
  • George, Abey and Jyothi Krishnan. 2007. ‘Bidding Farewell to Grasim: The Lessons that Remain Unlearnt’. In Water Conflicts in India- A Million Revolts in the Making. K. J. Joy, Biksham Gujja, Suhas Paranjape, Vinod Goud and Shruti Vispute (Eds.) New Delhi, London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138376755
  • George, Abey and Jyothi Krishnan. 2007. Institutions, Participation and Local Governance: Decentralisation in Attappady. In Local Environmental Governance in India ed. Lead India. Lead India and British High Commission, New Delhi.
  • George, Abey and Jyothi Krishnan. 2000. ‘An Overview of the Electricity Sector in Kerala’. In The Reform Process and Regulatory Commissions in the Electricity Sector: Developments in the Different States of India’. Mumbai: Prayas and Focus on the Global South.

Research Papers

Journal Articles

Scientific Presentations

  • ‘Living with Floods: Coping with livelihood uncertainties in post-flood Kerala’, Paper presented at Seminar on Global Protection of Migrants and Refugees, November 16-21, 2020. Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group in collaboration with  Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) and Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (IWM).
  • Understanding Society through Multiple Lenses, Department of Social Work, Lecture Series, Vimala College, Thrissur (October-December 2020)
  • Review of Laws and Policies related to Child Migration, Webinar on Migration Policy of India, organised by UNICEF, Chennai, August 6th 2020
  • Experiences of Disaster Management Interventions: Insights for a New Curriculum. Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction: Developing a New Curriculum for Higher Education in Kerala, Loyola College of Social Sciences, May 29 2020.
  • ‘Livelihood Vulnerability’ at the National Seminar on Green Social Work: Emerging Trends & Prospects on 18th December 2019 
  • Understanding Social Accountability, Institute of Management in Government (IMG) 2019
  • Training of Master Trainers for Social Audit of Destitute Free Kerala Programme in Kerala, Kerala SAU, June 2019
  • Social Accountability and Natural Resource Management, Presentation by SARU (Social Accountability Resource Unit), at Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), Anand, Gujarat, May 2019
  • Social Audit of Local Self Governments, Training of Master Trainers, SIRD. Organised by Kerala Local Government Service Delivery Project and SIRD/KILA, November-December 2016. 
  • Citizen Engagement in Sanitation and Waste Management in Urban Areas of Kerala. Consultative Workshop on Scaling up Citizens’ Participation in Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) to a Jan Andolan, organised by Ministry of Urban Development and TISS, August 16, 2016

Positions Held

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Policies, politics and realities of small dams in the rural South, Water Alternatives, 4(3), 2011
  • Chairperson, School Management Committee (SMC), Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Vattiyoorkavu (2020-23).

Awards and Achievements

  • Chief Minister’s Award for Innovations in Public Policy awarded to the TISS Kerala Centre for the year 2015-16 for Social Audit of ICDS in Kerala.
  • Fellowship on Decentralisation and Social Inclusion/Exclusion in association with the LoGin (Local Governance Initiative South Asia) of the SDC (Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation), New Delhi. (2011-2012)
  • FES (Foundation for Ecological Security)-Info change Media Fellowship. (2011) for work on Common Property Resources.

Membership in Academic Bodies

  • Member (2019-21), Board of Studies, School of Environment Studies, Tunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Kerala.
  • Member, Advisory Committee, Kerala- Development and Innovation Strategic Council (K-DISC), Govt of Kerala for the Innovative Livelihood Programme implemented by K-DISC (2019-20).
  • Member, Board of Studies, Department for Social Innovation, Engagement and Co-Creation (SIEC), World Peace University, Pune.

Research Projects

  • Policy review of policies and legislation related to Child Migration and Children of Migrant Workers (Kerala and Tamil Nadu), as part of the CDS-UNICEF project on Child Migration in Kerala and Tamil Nadu (2020)
  • Research on post-disaster livelihood vulnerabilities in flood and landslide hit pockets of Kerala, with the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (2020).
  • Assessment of Resettlement and Rehabilitation of Tribal Communities from the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (2017)
  • Member of the NRLM Evaluation Team for evaluating the Comprehensive Tribal Development programme in Attappady (2016).
  • Evaluation of the Status of Urban Sanitation in Trivandrum Corporation (2016)
  • Evaluation of delivery of social security pension in Kerala as a part of the nation-wide study on Social Security Pensions conducted by Pension Parishad and TISS (2014).
  • Evaluation of the Juvenile Justice System in Kerala, conducted for the Dept of Social Justice, Govt of Kerala(2015-16)

Consultancies

  • Policy Analyst with Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum on the CDS-UNICEF project on Child Migration in Kerala and Tamil Nadu (2020).
  • Consultant with Tata Institute for Social Sciences for the Pilot Social Audit of the National Food Security Act in Kerala (2019).
  • Consultant to Costford, in developing a comprehensive proposal for the reconstruction of educational institutions in flood-hit areas in the post-disaster context of Kerala (2019).
  • Consultant, Kudumbashree- Social Audit of the Destitute Free Kerala programme (Ashraya Programme) in Trivandrum district in collaboration (2019).
  • Policy Analyst with UNDP for the preparation of the Post Disaster Need Assessment (PDNA) report for the Govt of Kerala after the Kerala floods (2018).
  • Information Management Consultant with UNICEF- Documentation of UNICEF’s Flood Response Activities following the Kerala Floods of 2018 (2018).