Management Council

Sandiran (Sandi) Premakanthan is a Sri Lankan born Canadian Citizen. Sandi lives in Ottawa, Ontario Canada. He holds a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Ottawa with concentration in Finance, Accounting, Auditing and Evaluation. Sandi is an Accredited Productivity Professional / Industrial Engineer (Fellow of the Institute of Management Services, United Kingdom – FMS and an Associate, Institute of Industrial Engineering – AIIE, a Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Quality Management Systems (ISO 9000), Lead Auditor, Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14000) and a Certified Provisional SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability determination – ISO 15504) Assessor (CPSA).

Sandi has over 25 years of general management consulting, evaluation and auditing experience in the public and private sectors. During the past several years with the Public Service of Canada, Sandi successfully developed Performance Results Based Management Strategies and conducted evaluations. He is currently a Senior Policy Analyst with Emergency Management and Corporate Affairs Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Sandi has taught Production/Industrial Engineering, Evaluation, Auditing, and Management at the University, Community College and Professional Institutions for over 20 years. Over the past six years, he presented a number of papers, workshops and seminars on Managing for Performance Results at international conferences and events in North America, Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe.

He is the President and Principal Consultant of Symbiotic International Consulting Services (SICS), Ottawa, Ontario Canada. Sandi is a Certified Trainer and is engaged in providing Management Education and Training/Professional Development Services.

He is an active member of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) and several other evaluation societies.

Contact Details:
10 Lillico Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1V 0G5
Teleph: 1 613 526 0263
e-mail: sandiran.premakanthan@iocomsa.org

Zicky Hammud is a senior management consultant with the Canadian federal government’s internal consulting arm: Government Consulting Services. He has 25 years of consulting experience in the public, private and non-governmental sectors. Having worked with all levels of government officials (both in the federal bureaucracy and the Canadian Parliament), Zicky is people-oriented, innovative, and delivers improved business and organizational capabilities with forward thinking solutions.


Zicky is a skilled relationship builder, who is analytical, self-motivated, and entrepreneurial. His expertise includes organizational design and change management, streamlining core work processes, evaluating government programs, developing strategic plans and policies, and general governance.


Originally from the Nova Scotia on Canada’s east coast, Zicky holds a Master's degree in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. Zicky has travelled extensively abroad and considers himself a citizen of the world who closely monitors world events and their implications. Zicky is also active with non-profit organizations involved in development issues and the arts. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

Raymond Peterkin graduated with a B.A.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Ottawa in 2003 summa cum laude with options in co-operative education and management and entrepreneurship. Raymond is now a member of NCCT where he finished his M.A.Sc in Electrical Engineering in 2006 conducting researching in reconfigurable computing (FPGAs) and MPLS to optimize how data is routed on the Internet and best effort networks. He is now a Ph.D student continuing research in embedded systems and higher layer networking protocols like the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

Raymond is a member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the IEEE Computer Society and the Golden Key Society.

Contact Details:
Email: peterkin@site.uottawa.ca

Kunzang Lhamu is a Bhutanese citizen and lives in Thimphu Bhutan. Kunzang obtained her Master degree in public policy from the National University of Singapore.

Kunzang is currently employed in the Gross National Happiness Commission, Royal Government of Bhutan as the Head of the Research and Evaluation Division (RED). The Division was set up in 2007 and is mandated with the coordination and conduct of evaluations of policies and programmes. Currently, the Division is undergoing an organizational development (OD) exercise to further strengthen and institutionalise evaluations in the country. A Joint Evaluation of DANIDA programmes in the country was conducted in 2010, with EVAL, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark as the counterpart from Denmark and RED as the counterpart from Bhutan.

Contact details:
Kunzang Lhamu
Research and Evaluation Division
Gross National Happiness Commission
Post Box # 127
Tashichodzong
Thimphu Bhutan
Email: klhamu@gnhc.gov.bt
Phone: +975 2 322832

Ghulam Mustafa has about 30 years’ experience of planning, monitoring and evaluation of development projects. He has been working as Director, Project Evaluation Cell of the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA), Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan. Prior to joining ERRA, Mustafa worked in the Planning Commission of Pakistan as Research Officer, Assistant Chief and Deputy Chief. Earlier experience includes implementation of a UNDP funded project for poultry development in the country. Mustafa holds an M. Phil. in Reproductive Physiology from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad and a DVM from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. Pakistan. Mustafa is fluent in Urdu (native) and English, and has working knowledge of German, Spanish, and Italian languages. In addition to IOCOMSA, he is member of the following organizations:

• International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), Johannesburg, South Africa
• European Evaluation Society (EES), CZECH-IN, Prague Congress Centre, 5. kvetna 65, 140 21 Prague 4, Czech Republic
• Network of Networks for Impact Evaluation (NONIE), Independent Evaluation Group, The World Bank, Washington D.C.
• Pakistan Evaluation Network (PEN), Islamabad, Pakistan.

Contact Details:
Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA)
Prime Minister’s Secretariat (Public)
Murree Road, Islamabad
Pakistan
Phone: 92-51-9030928
Mobile: 92-321-5861081

Scott Bayley currently lives in Melbourne Australia and holds Australian and Canadian citizenships. Scott obtained his Master degree from Murdoch University in Western Australia majoring in policy analysis and evaluation.

Scott has over 20 years of evaluation experience across a number of sectors including economic development, education, health, financial management, environment, justice, and public sector governance. Scott has authored numerous evaluation reports, articles and workshops on topics such as assessing program impacts, results-based management, public sector performance indicators, client satisfaction surveys, and measurement theory. He has provided evaluation and performance audit training to government staff throughout the Asian region.

Scott is currently employed as the Manager, Performance Analysis and Compliance, Department of Human Services; an organization with 12,000 staff and an annual budget of $3.5 billion. Scott has also held the positions of Senior Evaluation Specialist with the Asian Development Bank, and Director of Performance Audit with the Victorian Auditor-General's office. Scott is a past board member of the Australasian Evaluation Society as well as the International Organisation for Cooperation in Evaluation.

Contact details:
28 Ingles Street
Port Melbourne, Victoria
Australia 3207
Email: scottbayley56@yahoo.com.au
Phone: +61 450768068

I. C. Awasthi, a Ph.D. (Economics) from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India) is presently Senior Faculty at the Institute of Applied Manpower Research (Planning Commission, Government of India) Delhi. He received specialized training on Manpower Planning from the Institute of Employment Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He is alumnus of International Programme for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET, 2009). He is also alumnus of Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad, India). He works in the areas of labour, employment, decentralized planning and human resource development. He has contributed over 3 dozen papers in the professional journals and published two co-authored and three edited books. He is member of The Indian Society of Labour Economics, Delhi; Association of British Scholars (Delhi Chapter); Indian Institute of Public Administration, Delhi, and Member, Management Council/Board of International Organization for Collaborative Outcome Management(IOCOM).

Contact Details:
Email: icawasthi@rediffmail.com
Mobile: +91 9810237430

Velayuthan Sivagnanasothy is the Secretary, Ministry of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development of the Government of Sri Lanka. Prior to this, he served as the Director General, Department of Foreign Aid and Budget Monitoring of the Ministry of Plan Implementation for the Government of Sri Lanka. As a Head of the Department of Foreign Aid and Budget Monitoring his responsibilities included monitoring and evaluation of all development projects, programs and policies of the government. He has more than 25 years of senior-level public sector experience in development planning, management, and monitoring and evaluation at the national level. He led the institutionalization of Managing for Development Results in Sri Lanka and established the national electronic Project Monitoring System in the government. He undertook many on-going and ex-post evaluation of nationally important development projects and programmes and established a web based Evaluation Information System. He served as a Co-Chair of the International Reference and Management Groups on the Evaluation of the Implementation of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness undertaken by the DAC evaluation Network of the OECD. He represented Asia in the OECD negotiating team that formulated the Accra Action Agenda for the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. He also served as a Keynote Speaker in many MfDR Forum and in particular at the International Roundtable on the Managing for Development Results (MfDR) held at High Level Forum 3 in Accra, Ghana.

He currently serves as a Vice-Chair of the Asia Pacific Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results (MfDR) and Co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Capacity Development for Development Effectiveness (CDDE). He serves as a Resource Person in the International Programme for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) of the University of Carleton, Ottawa, Canada.

Prabin Chitrakar is a Nepali citizen and lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is currently with Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal(NCBL)as a Mine Risk Education Program Coordinator and Finance & Technical Officer. Prabin has more than ten years of experience in the field of Mine Action. He is a member of International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), European Evaluation Society (EES) and few other national organisations. He has received Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) training including the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) of the World Bank and Carleton University Canada. He has been involved in M&E for his organization. Prabin is an M&E trainer and conducts training workshops in Nepal. He has a keen interest in continuous learning and getting involved in the field of M&E outcome and development management. He plans to transfer his knowledge in building M&E, outcome and development management capacity in government and the private sector.

Contact details:
Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL)
Sitapaila, Ring Road, GPO Box: 5840
Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: +977 1 4278990
Fax: +977 1 4277428
Mobile: +977 9841 367743
Email: prabinc@gmail.com

Md. Abu Hanif currently lives in Afghanistan and he holds Bangladeshi citizenships by birth. Hanif obtained his Masters in Development Study degree from Southeast University, Dhaka majoring in poverty alleviation, development concepts and measurements of indicators, micro and macro economics, monitoring and evaluation in NGO affairs, project management and development, environmental development and gender and development. He has obtained diploma degree on ‘Basic Ecology on Integrated Rice and Fish Farming System’ from Sains University, Malaysia. He attended two weeks training on ‘Integrated Rice and Fish Farming system’ from Kantho University in Vietnam. Hanif has attended in series of training on ‘International Programme of Development Programme, Monitoring and Evaluation in development and peace building programme’ in Carleton University Ottawa Canada, University of Ulster of Northern Ireland, Pretoria in South Africa organized by IMA International and many more in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Egypt and Cambodia.

Hanif has over 18 years of research, monitoring and evaluation, and project management experience across a number of sectors including livelihoods, economic development, education, health, disaster risk reduction, environment, emergency, and local governance. Hanif has authored numerous research and evaluation reports, articles and workshops on topics such as assessing program impacts, results-based management, project baselines, projects feasibility studies and participatory monitoring and evaluation guideline. He has provided monitoring and evaluation and Humanitarian Accountability standard training to more than 400 national and international NGOs staff it Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Abu Hanif is currently employed as the Programme Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor of Concern Worldwide, Afghanistan with more than 3,000 staff and Concern implementing Food Income Market Interaction, Health, Education, HIV and AIDS and Emergency Programme in Afghanistan with more 32 countries over the world. Hanif has also held the positions of Monitoring and Evaluation Expert with the Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh and more than six years with CARE Bangladesh. Hanif is a founder member of Community of Evaluation Expert forum of Southeast Asia, member of Asia Peacebuilding Forum, AMAN Bangladesh and networking member of IPDET, INCORE, IDEAS, Keystone, 3i, Afrea and European Evaluation Society as well as the accountability forum of National and International Organisation in Southeast Asia.

Contact details:
Md. Abu Hanif
16/18, The Radison 4B, Block-B, Babor Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh
Email: abu.hanif@concern.net, abu.hanif7@gmail.com
Phone: +93 (0) 797310966 (in Afghanistan), +88-01713330985 (Bangladesh),
TNT: +88-02-9111822 (Bangladesh)
Skype: cw_abu.hanif

Abdul Ghani is a citizen of Afghanistan and lives in Kabul. He is a medical doctor by profession. He graduated from the Medical Faculty in Afghanistan in Nov, 2003. He started his career with National NGO in one of the remote province of Afghanistan in Jan, 2004 till Dec, 2007. He started to work as a Health Management Information System (HMIS) officer and in Oct, 2005 he was appointed as the program manager of primary health care project called Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS). In January, 2008 he joined an international organization as their Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Coordinator. As the M&E coordinator he conducted a number of internal evaluations and established an independent M&E Unit within the organization. In February, 2010 he became the Deputy Director, Public Health including the responsibility for the M&E unit.

Abdul is currently studying on-line for the DPH from the Peoples Open University. He is a founding member of the Community of Evaluators (COE) of South Asia. He attended an international evaluation conference in Sri Lanka in 2009 hosted by the Sri Lanka Evaluation Association (SLEvA). In 2010 he attended the International Evaluation Conclave organized by the COE in Delhi, India. He facilitated a session on the role of evaluation in conflict settings at the New Delhi Conclave. He also facilitated M&E sessions for the HealthNet TPO staff of Grate Lake countries in Uganda.

Abdul received training on Evaluation of humanitarian action, Evaluation of health system, outcome mapping, Participatory Monitoring, health management information system, survey designs, report writing, project management cycle and pharmaceutical management.

He is a member of several national fora at the Ministry of Public of Health (MOPH), Afghanistan. Abdul as a member of a technical group, contributed to the revision of evaluating tools called Balance Score Cards that is used by third parties for evaluating the public health sector. He is also a member of the national health management information system strategy 2010-2013 development. Abdul is a regular participant in the national HMIS taskforce and at M&E technical discussion group meetings at MOPH, Afghanistan.

Contact details:
HealthNet TPO,
Kabul, Afghanistan
Mobile # 093 799 590 953
E-mail : dr.ab_ghani@yahoo.com
www.healthnetinternational.org

Syed Rashedul Hossen, a Bangladeshi national, now lives in Hiroshima for higher study. He obtained his Master's degree from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh majoring in Management. He has received training in the field of development administration, policy formulation and implementation, project management and in the various other related disciplines. He also attended many national and international seminars and symposiums including the International Program for Development Evaluation and Training (IPDET) jointly sponsored by the World Bank and Carleton University of Canada in the year 2009.

Mr. Hossen has 10 years of experience as a career civil servant in public policy and general administration arena in the government of Bangladesh. He is now pursuing higher studies in Hiroshima University, Japan under the joint Japan-World Bank Scholarship Program designed for mid-career professionals. Having served in various ministries in the government of Bangladesh he was mandated to monitor and evaluate different government projects and programs and acquired hands on experiences in this field.

Mr. Hossen has been relentlessly working to strengthen and institutionalize the M&E concept in the different levels of the government in Bangladesh as well as in corporate and NGO environments. His current research focus is also related to socio-economic impact analysis in the context of developing countries. He is also interested in sharing knowledge and experiences between GO and NGO, and interacting with people from multiple disciplines. He is an active member of IDEAS (International Development Evaluation Association) and also highly enthusiastic and immensely happy to be partnered with the IOCOMSA and hopes that under the umbrella of IOCOM, M&E enthusiasts can work together to spread the practice of greater accountability in the form of monitoring and evaluation throughout South Asia.


Contact details
Syed Rashedul Hossen
Senior Assistant Secretary (on deputation)
Ministry of Establishment, Dhaka, Bangladesh and
World Bank Scholar (JJ/WBGSP)
The Graduate School for International Development & Cooperation (IDEC)
Hiroshima University, Lab # 501
1-5-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8529, Japan.
Email: rashedul_hossen@yahoo.com
Phone: +81-(0)80-4260-1921