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), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ),  with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 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 sharply 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.

• 05 November 2009: Innovative financial techniques for the developing world.
• 22 October 2009: Beyond aid: Is our aid focus too narrow?
• 29 May 2009: A climate change protection plan for the world's poor.
• 03 March 2009: Saving the MDGs from global recession.
• 05 February 2009: Africa: Sustaining successes in the face of global turmoil.
• 16 November 2008: Development: Does the media help or hinder?
• 12 June 2008: Does today's international aid architecture help or hinder aid effectiveness?
• 03 April 2008: How best can business contribute to Europe's aid efforts?
• 26 February 2008: Is EU development aid entering a new era in the wake of the Lisbon Treaty?
• 04 December 2007: Should climate change alter development policy thinking?