- Serve as a multidisciplinary center at excellence in training, action oriented. Implementation research and community development work
- Mobilize the large pool of intellectual capital available in different faculties of the university
- Serve as a dynamic Centre for information exchange and dissemination
- Promote closer links between the university and the national policy-making process on one hand and with the community on the other
- To improve Community Livelihood through expanding activities of the Colombo University Community Extension Center
- To strengthen Community based Institutions for Sustainable Rural Development
- To strengthen Local Administrative Systems through Capacity Building
- To expand the Community Development based University Academic Programmes