
Education
- Teacher training
- Instructional materials design and production
- Curriculum development and support Distance learning
- Low-cost and alternative instructional systems
- Educational planning and development
- Vocational training
- Development of courses, seminars and workshops
- Programs for language minorities
- Programs for other special populations

Health & Nutrition
- Research on child survival
- Program review: prenatal and postnatal care
- Testing bilingual informational media focusing on AIDS, cancer and Alzheimer’s
- Assessments of medical service delivery
- User surveys, social marketing and program design
- Access to health care (HMOs), maternal and child health
- Research on family planning Health of the elderly
- Program effectiveness of health and social services
- Drug abuse prevention programs
- Delivery system impact research

Labor
- Labor market management and support services
- Employment and training models and seminars
- Surveys of workers in various markets
- Development of worker training programs
- Evaluation of training programs
- Assessments of employment services
- Programs to combat child labor
- Gender in development

Communications
- Communication plans for hard-to-reach low-income families and other target populations
- Custom-designed marketing strategies for specific audiences
- Evaluation of advertising campaigns and marketing strategies
- Social marketing campaigns
- Research in the Hispanic market

Gender in Development
- Economic growth
- Education and technology
- Educating girls and boys
- Gender-based violence and trafficking
- Health and HIV
- Legal and human rights
- Women in conflict and peace-building
- Women's leadership and governance