• Conduct research on border disputes
• Provide logistical and administrative support to BDS efforts
• Provide technical support to BDS efforts
• Provide facilitation and mediation support to BDS efforts
• Treaty preparation

• Conduct research on border security, management and governance
• Undertake threat and risk assessment of African borders
• Offer training in border management and governance
• Advise governments on enhancing border management and governance
• Design strategies on border security/management/governance

• Assist in improving livelihoods of border communities
• Assist in promoting and maintaining soft borders
• Conduct research on cross-border cooperation
• Trans-boundary resources management (resource mapping, designing strategies on use and management, negotiation and treaty preparation
•  Assist organizations to address border issues affecting regional and continental integrations
• Assist organizations to design and implement policies, strategies, projects and programmes aimed at transforming borders into bridges of peaceful coexistence

• Recover historical records
• Surveying and mapping
• Sensitization campaigns
• Demarcation
• Treaty preparation