These aims will be achieved through inter-faculty liaison and alignment of existing curricular activities to research projects and community engagement initiatives aimed at supporting national development and sustainable development goals.

The unit liaises with the faculties of UP and research centres around trans-disciplinary research projects, curriculum collaboration and intervention projects, coordinating curricular engagement with community participants over appropriate timespans, and ensuring that these engagements are mutually understood and reciprocally significant. The UUC assists with ethical monitoring, educational rigour, and research consistency, as well as institutional alignment with UP’s policies of Community Engagement and Social Responsibility, ensuring that the role of UP as an anchor institution is to be served and strengthened through these endeavours.