The Development Policy Forum (DPF) is a partnership between the Brussels-based think-tank Friends of Europe, the United Nations, the World Bank, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Yara International and in association with the European Commission Directorate General for Development and Relations with ACP States. The goal of the partnership is to systematically address forthcoming challenges in the area of development policy through lively debates and sharp written analyses. 

Partners noted the growing need for a neutral and regular platform for the debate and analysis of development policy related issues in Brussels. Many development-related debates are ad hoc in nature or are initiated by the actors involved in Europe’s development policy. To stimulate wider interest in the issues, the DPF provides a new platform in Brussels to address these topics. 

• raise awareness of development issues;
• promote debate on topical and interlinked political, economic and social matters;
• bring together political authorities, members of national, international and European development organisations, commentators and business representatives to discuss and debate development questions.

The highlights of each roundtable as well as the reports published on the occasion of the DPF are widely circulated by Friends of Europe so that key messages receive attention throughout the EU and beyond.

• 12 June 2008: Does today's international aid architecture help or hinder aid effectiveness? Click here.
• 3 April 2008: How best can business contribute to Europe's aid efforts? Click here.
• 26 February 2008: Is EU development aid entering a new era in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty? Click here.
• 4 December 2007: Should climate change alter development policy thinking? Click here.