The Centre has the mandate to:

Serve as Centre of excellence for improved capacity building and service delivery at the regional level on hazardous waste issues and facilitating the coordination of the activities of the three Basel Convention Regional Centres for training and technology transfer hosted in South Africa, Senegal and Egypt.This coordinating role is in accordance with the Decision 111/19 of the conference of parties to the Basel Convention.

Provide structural support in policy development and harmonised direction to the regional centres (BCRCs) in Egypt, South Africa and Senegal through among other means training, networking, the integration of standards, systems, capacity building programs, technology identification/adaptation and transfer toward the achievement of environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes in the region.