ISRAD focuses, among others, on:
• Conduct research into development issues
• Design and manage development programmes
• Women empowerment and gender based violence
• Monitor and evaluate development programmes
• Provide professional services to people and organizations
• Building the capacity of community-based organizations that provide health services to vulnerable households.
• Promoting better hygiene practices and increasing access to clean water and improved sanitation options.
• Preventing gender-based violence through community mobilization and training of key service providers.
• Promoting sustainable, livelihood-based approaches that help vulnerable people to work their way out of poverty and provide for their health and social needs.
• Providing Geographical Information Systems(GIS) and Mapping services