- ·Initiate and drive a demand-driven labour research that is linked to education agenda that refines trade union consciousness and ideological grinding;
- ·Build the research capacity of trade unions to advocate for change through evidence-based policy positions in the interests of working people in Zambia and the world;
- ·Strengthen research as a tool for effective education and training capacity building of trade unions for better service delivery to their members;
- ·Assist in the development of empirically informed trade union policy interventions at the national, regional and continental levels.
- ·Maintaining an accurate and accessible database on the economy and labour relations in Zambia;
- Providing an online and offline platform for discussions on labourand national development issues.