The mission of CEPERD is
- To catalyze and promote evidence-based knowledge about pressing economic issues, leading to better-informed policy solutions for generations to come.
- To build broadly shared prosperity in Nigeria by supporting education leaders and practitioners, policymakers, researchers and community stakeholders to study, design and build equitable, high-performing, and cost-effective education and workforce development systems.
- To be at the frontier of research in political economy, economic history, development economics, finance, and education.
- To foster evidence generation and uptake for sustainable economic growth and development for Nigeria and the region
- To make effort for development of people centric economic policies through provision of high quality survey data to guide policy formulation, generate discussion amongst key stake holders and evidence based planning and research in the social and economic sectors of the country.