The hub’s primary responsibilities include generating high-quality research, promoting evidence-based policymaking, and strengthening regional capacity with a focus on social protection to improve the socio-economic status of marginalised groups. Additionally, the initiative aims to explore avenues for climate change mitigation in West and Central Africa.

It forms part of the FutureWORKS Collective, a five-year interdisciplinary Southern-led research initiative devoted to the future of work in the Global South.