The Bokone Bophirima Craft and Design Institute (BBCDI) was set up in 2009 to promote and grow craft and design as an economic sector in the North West Province of South Africa. A Non Profit Company, the BBCDI, followed the engagement by the Department of Trade & Industry Creative Industries Sector Desk, a process of developing a Trade and Enterprise Development Strategy for the craft sector. A Customised Sector Programme (CSP) for Craft was completed in July 2005 and has since been used as the conceptual framework for the implementation of the craft programmes and activities both nationally and provincially.  The Department of Trade & Industry (the DTI) approved the CSP in February 2007 where the Integrated Craft Hubs were identified as the key action programme pivotal to the success of the strategy.  The CSP and more particularly the implementation of the Craft Hubs have since been incorporated into the National Industrial Policy Framework and its Action Plan. The BBCDI is therefore a hub, established in line with the National Craft Sector Programme, Craft Hub Blueprint and the Industrial Policy Action Plan as approved by parliament in 2007.