The UARMP has the following objectives:

• Increase economies and improve efficiency in the overall management of University Records;
• Deliver a full range of coordinated and consistent cross campus archives and records management services that meet the needs of the University;
• Ensure the inactive and closed University Records are properly maintained and accessible as long as they have administrative, operational, financial or legal value;
• Ensure that University Records are systematically destroyed once they are no longer of any value;
• Ensure that University Records of enduring or permanent value are systematically transferred to the Archives;
• Preserve, arrange, describe and make available for research and reference those University Records of enduring value and thereby serve as the custodian of the University's documentary heritage and the corporate memory of the institution;
• Ensure that archival and records management implications and considerations are taken into account in the design, development and operation of policies, procedures and systems that have an impact on managing recorded information and documenting activities in the University;
• Ensure, to the greatest extent possible, that all aspects of the Programme are integrated and standardized;
• Participate in and contribute to the regional archives and records management community;