- Formulate and implement arts, culture and heritage policies and strategies;
- Institutionalize and enforce good corporate governance in the arts, culture and heritage sector; Promote research for arts and culture practices, products, goods and services;
- Facilitate and promote the exhibition and showcasing of works of art locally, regionally and internationally;
- Coordinate and support the establishment of arts and cultural clubs/ hubs and/or associations;
- Promote the use of arts and culture in enhancing social integration and empowerment;
- Promote arts and culture programmes in schools and other institutions;
- Coordinate inventorying of intangible cultural heritage elements in communities;
- Coordinate the interface between national associations and their regional and international mother bodies;
- Promote and facilitate investment in production, marketing and consumption of arts, culture and heritage goods and services;
- Develop and execute a funding model for cultural and creative industries;
- Establish and equip cultural and creative industries spaces throughout the country;
- Domesticate regional and international protocols for arts and culture;
- Provide artistic and cultural interventions for State Occasions and other national events;
- Facilitate cultural exchange programmes nationally, regionally and internationally;
- Promote the preservation and expressions of diverse cultures of Zimbabwean communities;
- Promote the development, use and preservation of Zimbabwe’s indigenous languages and living heritage:
- Promote diplomacy through arts and culture
