The research program seeks to provide sound intellectual support to CAREC's work in transport, energy, and trade.

Research on Regional Cooperation

The CAREC Institute’s research program will generate new knowledge, innovation, and recommendations to support more effective regional cooperation. The program seeks to provide sound intellectual support to CAREC's work in transport, energy, and trade; and to raise the research capacity of research institutes in the participating countries.

Five principles will guide the Institute's research:

Focused: The Institute will confine its efforts to issues related to deepening regional economic cooperation among CAREC participating countries, and between the CAREC region and external markets.

Flexible: The Institute will encourage and support results-oriented training, research, and dialogue that increase the exchange of information relevant to the work of the CAREC Program based on a variety of views, perspectives, and methodological approaches.

Practical: The Institute's training and research outputs will respond to questions raised by the Program's committees, Senior Officials, and Ministers, and provide inputs to enable evidence-based decision making on issues affecting the CAREC Program and regional cooperation more broadly.

Integrated: The work of the Institute will be closely linked with and complementary to the work of the broader CAREC Program. Similarly, the training, research, and dialogue activities of the Institute will be integrated, with each area of activity feeding ideas and expertise to the others.

Collaborative: The Institute will prioritize the involvement of expertise from the CAREC region and support collaboration among institutes, think tanks, universities, researchers, and others in the CAREC participating countries, and among these entities and leading international institutions in relevant areas.

The Institute will:

• Help create a shared knowledge and information base through the development of foundation studies in the CAREC priority areas.
• Develop and implement research programs to examine key questions affecting regional cooperation and its contribution to economic development in the CAREC countries.
• Undertake a small research grants program to encourage research by researchers and institutes in the CAREC countries that will advance regional cooperation; and
• Prepare issue-specific papers or studies responding to requests for information or analysis from Senior Officials' Meetings, Ministerial Conferences, or sector committees. Such papers may also be prepared to address issues related to institutional arrangements for the CAREC Program or second-tier activities.

 

 

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