Suppiramaniam  Nanthikesan

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Lead Evaluation Officer

Dr. Nanthikesan

Sri Lanka

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+39 06 5459 2243

PhD Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Masters in Public Administration Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA

Bachelor in Engineering Sri Lanka

Nanthikesan is Lead Evaluation Officer at the Independent Office of Evaluation at IFAD. He has over 25 years of professional experience in the development field, including more than 20 years of evaluation experience in the United Nations development system. As Head of the thematic evaluation group in IEO of UNDP, he conceptualized and conducted corporate and country level evaluations. As a Regional M&E Advisor in the Asia-Pacific as well as the Sub-Saharan Africa regions, he was responsible for planning, monitoring and evaluating country programmes and developing M&E capacities in 68 countries. Prior to joining the United Nations system, he was a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University.

Professional affiliations and distinctions Member, International Development Evaluation Association Member, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association Member, American Evaluation Association Member, Sri Lanka Evaluation Association Guest lecturer at Columbia University, SIPA Authored several evaluation-related peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and blog pieces. Convened sessions in a number of international evaluation events (American Evaluation Association, Asia Evaluation Week, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association, COP26, European Evaluation Society, and United Nations Evaluation Group).

25 years International Development experience, with focus on Asia and Sub Saharan Africa.

+20 years experience in the evaluation field

2019 Rome, Italy

2016 Bangkok, Thailand

2009 New York, USA

2002 New York, USA

Lead Evaluation Officer Independent Office of Evaluation IFAD

Regional M&E Advisor Asia Pacific Regional Office UNFPA

Regional M&E Advisor Regional Bureau for Africa UNDP

Evaluation Officer Independent Evaluation Office UNDP

Publications

Blogs

Presentations

"Rapid Evidence Assessment: Lessons from Climate Adaptation Responses of Smallholder Agriculture". Journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL),

Laura Silici, Jerry Knox, Andy Rowe, and Suppiramaniam Nanthikesan 2021

'Evaluating Transformational Adaptation in Smallholder Farming: Insights from an Evidence Review'. In Transformational Change for People and the Planet: Evaluating Environment and Development. Juha I Uitto, Geeta Batra (eds.) Springer Open: Cham, Switzerland. 2021

Laura Silici, Jerry Knox, Andy Rowe, and Suppiramaniam Nanthikesan 2021

"Evaluationg Post-Conflict Assistance. In: David Jensen and Steve Lonergan, eds., Assessing Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. 2013 Earth Scan: London, pp. 389-408.

Nanthikesan 2013

"The Evolution of Inequality in Length-of-Life: France 1806 1987 February 2001, Vol. 11 No. 3, Working Paper, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA.

Nanthikesan 2001

Averting a ‘train wreck’ – Taking stock of environmental consequences of development interventions

Nanthikesan 2021

Evaluating Organizational Setups: Lessons from IOE Corporate Level Evaluation of IFAD’s Decentralization Experience

S. Nanthikesan 2024

Corporate Level Evaluation of IFAD’s Decentralization Experience 2023

S. Nanthikesan 2023

Measuring Capacities Thematic Evaluation of IFAD’s Support to Smallholder Farmers’ Climate Adaptation

S. Nanthikesan 2023

Lessons from a major Climate Adaptation Evaluation (IFAD) Considerations for assessing climate adaptation solutions in agricultural sector and their environmental sustainability

S. Nanthikesan 2023

Mainstreaming Environmental Sustainability in all IFAD Evaluations

S. Nanthikesan 2022

Thematic Evaluation of IFAD’s Support for Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change

S. Nanthikesan 2022

Approaches and Methods to Climate Change and Environmental Evaluations | IsDB Group Evaluation Symposium

S. Nanthikesan 2022

3rd International Conference, Asia Pacific Evaluation Association

S. Nanthikesan 2022

Transformative Pathways to Food Security Building Resilience to Climate Change | Asian Evaluation Week 2021

S. Nanthikesan 2021