To become an active partner in shaping Africa’s development agenda from a public policy and governance perspective, the PPH has the following five strategic pillars to support its vision:

1. Collaborative, relevant, and impactful research: Partner with faculties, centres, and institutes across UP as well as research fellows and associates at other universities; national and international practitioners, and policymakers to produce practical research with implementable solutions for societal impact. 
2. Consultative processes and research-to-policy dialogues: Develop and convene networks of public sector and research experts with the intention of increasing demand for and uptake of evidence in policy decisions. These research-to-policy dialogues will also assist researchers in understanding the policymaking processes and how to be more helpful, and flexible, when communicating research (e.g., through policy briefs, and policy notes). 
3. Capacity development and executive training: Using existing expertise across the university and the knowledge created through collaborative research, partner with Enterprises UP to provide a range of learning opportunities for policymakers across sectors and through developed curricula, build the capacity of the next generation of leaders and policymakers in the public sector,
4. Influencing university curriculum design: By integrating the diverse expertise of multiple stakeholders in the research formulation process as co-producers of knowledge in an ever-changing environment, expose students and faculty staff to real-time global policy issues and real-world learning to the qualifications offered by the University of Pretoria are practical, relevant, and adaptive to real-world events.
5. Ensuring positive societal impact: At a national level, the goal is to have the public sector appropriating a knowledge repository to shape and influence public policy, reforms, and legislation.