Theme 1: Agricultural Productivity and Food Security
Theme 2: Manufacturing, Construction and Urban Development
Theme 3: Health and Human Well-being
Theme 4: Natural Resource Management and Environmental Sustainability
Theme 5: Information, Communication and Emerging Technologies
Theme 6: Tourism, Heritage Management, Historical and Cultural Management
Theme 7: Socio-Economic Development
Theme 8: Legal and Policy Regime, Good Governance and Trans National Issues
Theme 9: Basic Sciences and Innovation
Theme 10: Indigenous Knowledge Cross-Cutting and Emerging Issues