To advance the above-mentioned objectives the Centre will develop a programme of work to:

• Engage, with the full range of UWI academics and pertinent research, in the production of a strategic framework for African-Caribbean cooperation and action which is flexible, creative, gender conscious and adaptable to the priorities in the developing world and changing global circumstances.
• Encourage and promote research and teaching on Africa, the African diaspora and Africa-Caribbean relations.
• Facilitate the relations between the UWI and universities in Africa and the African Diaspora/Caribbean.
• The Centre will promote, encourage, facilitate a fertile exchange of cultural groups, artistes, scholars, entertainers, athletes, sportspersons to build the ties between Africa and the Caribbean.
• Widen and deepen relationships between the people of the African nations and people within the Caribbean and of African descent worldwide.
• Assist governments, regional organizations, international institutions, the private sector and civil society to understand and advance existing schemes of regionalism in Africa and the Caribbean and promote studies, exchanges inter-governmental or institutional groupings for the development of economic and human resources within the Continent, the Caribbean and the wider Diaspora.
• Study the comparative experience of development with the objective of suggesting pragmatic and timely policy-oriented interventions on important issues requiring urgent attention or timely consideration for future relationships.
• The Centre is not designed or intended to replace, absorb or usurp any related activity now being pursued by the University, its Campuses and existing Groups Bodies.
• It is envisaged, however, that the Centre will collaborate and have access to the work, studies, research, data which might be of assistance in the execution of its functions as clearly assigned.
• It will work with existing Agencies, Secretariats, Foundations, Institutions in Africa, North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and throughout the entire Caribbean with shared purposes and objectives.