Category: Research Themes

Water theme broadly covers the following areas: Agricultural Water: Rural water supply and sanitation; Irrigation and drainage, Coastal Water: Protecting vital coastal ecosystems, Urban Water: Urban water supply, sanitation and wastewater management, Water Resources: Water resources development and management; Hydropower; Watershed and wetlands protection, Extreme Events and Risk Management: Floods and droughts; Climate variability and change. Globally, an estimated 2,000 children under the age of five die every day from diarrheal diseases and of these some 1,800 deaths are linked…

Theme represents the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions. The infrastructure needs are bound to evolve continuously with regards to the geographical, demographical, and political developments. Infrastructure refers to the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function. It can be defined as “the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to…

Industry theme includes the areas of technology, finance, information, materials, analysis and synthesis, as well as the application of social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from industrial processes. Industry is a major factor in countries regional developments. Industrial revolution has shown abrupt development of world economics. The nation’s GDP has had a big influence from industrial production creating jobs and employment and lead to societal…

ICT theme focuses on world-class teaching and research into the foundations and applications of computing systems, planning the effective use of information and communication technologies within organizations, developing corporate and government policies to maximize the benefits resulting from the wide-spread use of these technologies and increasing the productivity. Today’s fast-booming world of Telecommunications and Computer networking plays a significant leadership role. This theme focuses on world-class teaching and research into the foundations and applications of computing systems, planning the effective…

Food theme aims to address the issues of sustainable agricultural production through the conventional intensification solutions which need to be re-visited for their unsustainable effects; and rather more sustainable yet appropriate solutions need to be prescribed in the decades to come to attain self-sufficiency in food production Global food system today is beset by serious challenges and risks. Food demand is on rise due to population growth and changing consumption patterns; production and prices have become more volatile; hunger and…

Environment theme  looks for solutions to environmental problems, water supply and sanitation, wastewater treatment and disposal systems, air pollution, solid and hazardous wastes, waste minimization, and life cycle assessment, environmental impact assessment and management. Environment is the surrounding things. It includes living things and natural forces. The environmental theme looks for solutions to environmental problems, water supply and sanitation, wastewater treatment and disposal systems, air pollution, solid and hazardous wastes, waste minimization, and life cycle assessment, environmental impact assessment and…

Energy theme looks at the energy resources both at global and regional scale, the accessibility, distributional aspect, and infrastructure for energy sources and address key energy carrier issues and aims to deliver effective energy services with the least implications to the environment. Asia drives global economy and its influence is expected to only rise. Faster growth needs greater energy sources to sustain it. In the last decade, energy demand growth trends are already shifting decisively away from OECD countries and…

Development theme focuses on rural poverty, improvement of the quality of life, and social and economic development of rural areas and highlights both the need for studies in gender and development, and the integration of gender analysis and gender relations. This aims to equip people with the analytical and conceptual skills needed to understand gender issues in both contexts, enabling them to participate effectively in gender and development-related research, policymaking and implementation. Practice oriented research provides rural and regional planning…