DIRDC's mission is to contribute towards strengthening a process that enhances sustainable and inclusive development in Gandaki Province to improve the overall living standard of the people, especially of those poor, marginalized, and disadvantaged community groups, and women through creation of social capital and facilitating access to economic opportunities, especially those who had been excluded from the development mainstream for generations through conducting policy advocacy,  promotion of local initiatives, use of appropriate technology, strengthening of the CBOs, LNGOs, and GOs at the local level as collaborative institutions, awareness raising programs through social mobilization for the excluded communities in the working districts, in which the area of overriding concern and concentration for DIRDC will be to attain sustainable rural/urban development in Gandaki Province.