Apocef works through local initiatives to enhance local knowledge, enabling communities to reclaim their cultural values, acquire new skills, create sustainable jobs, and set up new work organisations and new methods to combat social exclusion, to boost the local economy by helping to increase the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and to contribute to the all-round social and economic development of local authorities, to strengthen the resilience of communities and the adaptability of their heritage to climate change, and to help improve their well-being in the face of humanitarian, ecological, climatic and security challenges.