NCCB has instituted three major annual awards to acknowledge and honor crafts persons across the country. The first is the Master Crafts Persons Award which is given to four master artisans, selected through a national competitive process and named after famous artists and folklorists, Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, Patua Quamrul Hasan, tapestry artist Rashid Chowdhury and scholar Tofail Ahmed. The second is the Master Crafts Person Lifetime Award given every year to honor a master crafts person for excellence in craftsmanship and contribution to advancing the skills of the younger generation. The third one is the Young Crafts Persons Competition which awards four young artisans in recognition of their skill and to encourage them to continue in their inherited profession. 

Some of the most recent and notable projects of NCCB has been the Capacity Building of Terracotta Artisans at Paharpur World Heritage Site in 2017, which included an exhibition and fair in Dhaka as well as one at Paharpur. Both were very successful. This project was undertaken in collaboration with UNESCO. 

Jamdani, a book on Jamdani weaving tradition has been published in February. It is a revised edition of the book Traditional Jamdani motifs published in 2018. 

In 2019 National Crafts Council of Bangladesh (NCCB) organised a month-long Jamdani festival in Dhaka.  During that Festival Sonargaon was awarded the honour of the World Crafts City by the World Crafts Council (WCC).

In 2024 another Jamdani Festival was organized with the sponsorship of the Sheva Nari o Shishu Kalyan Kendra. Later a book `Jamdani Design’ was also published as a part of this project.