• To prepare short/medium/long-term community development plans;
• To survey, research, design, rehabilitate and construct rural infrastructure, e.g. roads, bridges, schools, health centers, development villages and so on, in accordance with the approved plan;
• To construct and administer community development centers;
• To send community development workers into the field to encourage and educate people on literacy, environmental & natural resources protection, reforestation, traditional & cultural protection, good citizenship, community responsibility, citizens rights and democracy;
• To promote and encourage people to use appropriate technology to increase viable profitable food production for family and market supply;
• To make sure rural communities are aware of the everyday dangers of land mines in their countryside and basic safety practices;
• To assist repatriated and internally displaced people;
• To prepare and produce documents covering operation and maintenance by people within the rural infrastructure to ensure and encourage sustainable rural development; and
• To prepare documents covering the establishment and strengthening of rural development structures, especially the village development committees.