Dr Nupur Tiwari is currently working as Associate Professor and Head, Centre of Excellence(CoE) for Tribal Affairs, ( MoTA) at Indian Institute of Public Administration IIPA , New Delhi. She is visiting Faculty at International Business School , The Hague, Netherlands Dr Nupur Tiwari is currently working as Associate Professor and Head, Centre of Excellence(CoE) for Tribal Affairs, ( MoTA) at Indian Institute of Public Administration IIPA , New Delhi. She is visiting Faculty at International Business School , The Hague, Netherlands Earlier , She had worked as Senior Consultant to the former Union Minister of Panchayati Raj, providing inputs on Local governance . She was also a Faculty member at LNSNAA , Mussoorie , She has lectured vastly in India and abroad.. Her current research interests include Tribal Governance , Left Wing Extremism , Public Policy, Rural Development, Panchayati Raj , Left Wing Extremism, and Gender issues She has authored Forty two research papers/Articles, published in peer reviewed National and International journals. She has authored Six books and four Monographs and has contributed Chapters in eleven volumes . Two books, authored on PESA and Left wing extremism are forthcoming. She has Published Seven Reports for Government of India
She has worked as member of various committees constituted by Govt of India .
- i.She is the Expert Member National Capital Region Planning Board;
- ii.She is the Resource Head for Training of TRIs for Ministry of Tribal Affairs , Govt of India;
- iii.She is the Advisor for National Resource Entity for National Commission For Schedule Tribes , Govt of India
- iv.She is the member of an Expert Committee constituted for empowering the Zila Parishad , by Government of Bihar;
- v.She is member of Research Committee constituted by Ministry of Human Resource Development HRD, Govt of India
- vi.Member of Expert committee for Women Study Centre of Mizoram University
- vii.Member of the Committee constituted to Develop the Module to train the Gram Kachaharis members of Bihar Panchayati Raj Department, Govt. of Bihar
- viii.Member of Thematic Group on Panchayati Raj and Local-self government , Ministry of Development of North East Region (DoNER) GoI
- ix.Members of the Task Force on Watershed Management and Panchayats, WMP , Ministry of Panchayati Raj and Soil Conservation society of India, New Delhi
- x.Consultant , Expert Committee for Leveraging Panchayati Raj ,Constituted by Ministry of Panchayati Raj ,Government of India(November ,2012)
- xi.Domain Expert for PM award for excellence in Public Administration (2014)
- xii.Expert Member of Area Advisory Board (AAB) and Board of Studies (BoS).Of Amity Institute of Public Policy (AIPP), Amity University
Selected Research Projects
At present she is the Project Director of seven major projects commissioned by Government of India
- i. External Evaluation of the Scheme of Minimum Support Price for Minor Forest Product , MoTA, Govt of India
- ii. PESA and Left Wing Extremism(LWE): A Study of Extremist Affected Areas of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa , Funded by ICSSR , New Delhi
- iii. Impact of MGNREGA in narrowing gender gap in the Informal Workforce :A comparative Study of women participation in Uttar Pradesh ((Shahjhanpur and Bareilly)); Department of Rural Development , Government of UP
- iv. Independent Evaluation of SHGs formed by Non Profit Organizations for Supply of Hot Cooked Supplementary Nutritious Food under ICDS Project of Delhi Govt.Department of Women and Child Development . Govt of Delh
- v. External Evaluation of Consumer’s Satisfaction of the products of Kendriya Bhandar, commissioned by DoPT,GoI
- vi. External Evaluation of the Autonomous Bodies under the ageis of DoPT , sanctioned by DoPT,GoI
- vii. Third party evaluation of the welfare schemes of Department of Personnel and Training, commissioned by DoPT,GoI
- viii. Impact Assessment Study on the revised policy of Verification of Character and Antecedents ,Sanctioned by DoPT,GoI
- ix. Impact of Women’s Reservation in Panchayats on Household Welfare sponsored by National Council of Applied Economic Research and International Development Research Centre ,IDRC, Canada as part of research programme of IDRC-NCAER on “Decentralization , Rural Development and Inclusive growth
- x. A research Project for preparing of a “ Road map for the Panchayati Raj: An All India Perspective ” sponsored by Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Govt of India
- xi. “Strengthening the Role of Women in Grassroots Democracy”: at Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (Funded by govt. of Ireland, Iris Aid)
She has also Worked on Five Major Projects, funded by IDRC ,Irish Aid , Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Ministry of Rural Development and UNDP.. She has travelled vastly to USA, France, Germany , Switzerland ,Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands, Holland , Pakistan , Thailand , Vietnam , Malaysia. She has lectured in India and Abroad