Centre Activities

• The Centre provides for the first time an organized framework, to mobilize diverse intellectual resources of the country’s metropolitan university to facilitate a stimulating environment for professional collaboration, participatory training and action-oriented research in community development activities.
  

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  Action-oriented/applied research forms the backbone of the centre’s work and is focused upon several critical development themes as follows:

  • Human resource development in the rural sector
  • Utilization of physical Resources in the rural sector
  • Rural growth linkages
• University-community extension services
• Provincial Development Plans
• Small and Medium Enterprise development
• Socio-demographic/economic mapping using GIS
• Institutional and capacity building
• Participatory action oriented research
• People’s consultation on Disaster management and mitigation