Promoting research and development (R&D) culture in ICT related industry and academia is one of the most important goals pursued by the National ICT R&D Fund. This goal is desired to be achieved by funding concrete proposals for R&D as well as human resource development (HRD) projects. A well defined and transparent process is followed for technical evaluation of these proposals. It is important to note that between 60 to 75 percent of requested funding in these proposals is used to meet the human resource cost for effectively executing approved projects.  This is a very positive aspect of our activities.  Indirectly a significant pool of highly skilled manpower is being created in Pakistan.  The demand for highly skilled and talented manpower is very high globally. The financial reward for such human resource has to be market competitive. The Fund has prepared a well defined and realistic set of financial guidelines to evaluate the remuneration for human resource associated with R&D and HRD proposals submitted by potential researchers. The potential researchers/developers may download the detailed guidelines from the link given below.

The rates of remuneration for proposed staff members have been revised with effect from January 2012. Please download the file for more information.
 

Promoting R&D culture in ICT related industry and academia is one of the most important goals pursued by the National ICT R&D Fund. This document establishes guidelines for determining the admissible project costs for all R&D and HRD related proposals. While preparation of overheads budget for R&D and HRD proposals, a principle investigator (PI) is expected to seek maximum guidance from this document namely “Admissible Overheads for R&D and HRD Projects Guidelines”.

Since National ICT R&D Fund is a federally governed agency, all PIs are advised to adopt at a minimum the relevant government rules for procurement of goods and services such as PPRA Rules, in order to ensure maximum transparency.

All overhead expenses are admissible on actual while remaining within the approved budget for each cost component.