- To promote and carry out research in selected areas of science related to

Indigenous Knowledge Systems;

- To establish a resource centre for documentation, database information,

research, development and training on the subject of Indigenous Knowledge;

- To gather data and facilitate the documentation of Indigenous Knowledge

in the fields of rural industries, technologies, management, education,

health, and agriculture;

- To develop a system of storing and retrieving records of Indigenous

Knowledge Systems;

- To arrange and organise seminars and workshops for development and

dissemination of Indigenous Knowledge;

- To provide administrative, managerial and organisational support and

services to visiting scholars and affiliated research projects at the Centre;

- To publish monographs and reports on frontier and interdisciplinary areas

of sciences related to Indigenous Knowledge Systems.