RESEARCH guideline and THEMATIC AREAS: RESEARCH guideline and PROJECT PRIORITY AND THEMATIC AREAS

The significance of RTAs in prioritizing local, regional, and national needs, in promoting interdisciplinary, participatory research and value chain analysis, in avoiding redundancy and irrelevance of projects, and in mobilizing and utilizing resources efficiently is beyond doubt. For instance, prioritization of research areas can serve the college as a guide that could help in approving research proposals, prioritizing and allocating funding appropriately, and evaluating research projects. More importantly, the potential of research priority areas in addressing major socio-economic problems and investigating into these problems for advancing social and economic development is very high. Moreover, interdisciplinary and collaborative research can be promoted when the research programs are guided by priority and thematic areas. Interdisciplinary and collaborative research culture has the potential to address problems of wide magnitude, to promote the transfer of knowledge, skill, and expertise across disciplines, and to solicit considerable research funds.