· To set up and support, with key stakeholders, a network of self-sustaining community-owned organizations in an action research mode that leverages bamboo resources and technologies for the betterment of these communities.
· To identify, create, strengthen and consolidate groups of professionals such as architects and engineers, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs/development professionals working with or interested in the potential of bamboo.
· To collaborate with technology institutions and experts in India and overseas and jointly develop value added products to create/ensure sustainable and resilient livelihoods.
· To facilitate development of the bamboo sector by providing policy briefs, undertaking livelihood development activities in bamboo resource development and management, bamboo product design and development, project implementation, industrial development, enterprise development, community development, technology transfer, skills development, monitoring and evaluation systems and marketing.
· To actualize bamboo-based enterprises which generate employment opportunities from resource generation, processing and production of market-oriented products, after capacity building, skill enhancement and training, resilient alternatives using bamboo, through technology and applications development, skill building, ad raising productivity and incomes.