1. A need to craft a strategic plan on research and development which would address needs with transformation approaches in both short-term and long-term basis.

2. A separate college-based (R &D) thematic area aligned with the program under survey should be crafted that will create and sustain partnerships with communities, agencies and businesses through outreach and engagement to solve critical social and environmental problems and support economic vitality.

3. Conduct of an annual University Agency In-House Review (UAIHR) is a mechanism and to assess/review the performance as well as introducing the project review method, engaging project stakeholders, ensuring project governance, conducting project risk assessments, improving accountability, providing project assurance, organizing and managing projects, optimizing review scope and approach, avoiding review pitfalls, meeting existing audit standards, and proposing alternate approaches to project evaluation for better development of monitoring and evaluation scheme of the University.

4. As a policy stated in the R& D manual, encourage qualified faculty members to conduct research thereby increasing the number of researchers of the college.

5. An equal budget allocation of R&D activities in each of the program under survey shall be imposed to come up with research outputs.

6. Decentralization of research budget to have an equal budget for the use of institutionally submitted proposals of different colleges.