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.
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