CAMPE tries to play a crucial role of a co-coordinator helping and assisting different forces working in the education sector. The various other roles performed by CAMPE are those of networking, advocacy and lobbying, capacity building, training, facilitation and material development, policy research, documentation as well as serving as a catalyst and information data bank. The major strategy in performing these roles is to focus on strengthening NGO-NGO, GO-NGO, NGO-Donor and NGO-Democratic force relationship for achieving the goal of Education for All (EFA).

CAMPE carries out its functional roles primarily through four major program units. These are:

• Policy Advocacy and Mass Communication (PAMC) Unit
• EFA Partnership and Institutional Development (EFAPID) Unit
• Research, Monitoring, Evaluation and Documentation (RMED) Unit
• Management Unit