Policy dialogue on issues related to development and poverty alleviation necessarily encompasses a wide variety of actors both from OECD and non-OECD countries. The Development Centre acts as a facilitator by bringing those actors together in various meetings, seminars and workshops. Among them are the regional Development bank forums described below.

Also, an important part of the Development Centre's mandate is to provide a platform for dialogue and to build relations between civil society and official development structures.

To this end, the Development Centre supported the production of means for development NGOs to be informed and co-ordinate their activities between themselves and with governments. In collaboration with a variety of partners, it has published a number of NGO directories: comprehensive and thematic listings of NGOs active in sustainable development.

The Centre has also organised dialogues on the role of organised civil society in international development (as actors, as partners and as inspirators of public debate and awareness) and produced reports which can be accessed through this website