On 23 June 2009, the Residence Palace in Brussels hosted the High Level Policy Forum ‘After 2015: promoting pro-poor growth after the MDGs’. The forum was a joint initiative of IDS, DSA, EADI, DFID and ActionAid.

As the preferred media partner for this international event The Broker reported about the day itself including analytical blog postings by several of the invited speakers and discussants, including Charles Gore (UNCTAD), David Grimshaw (Practical Action Nepal), Michael Woolcock (University of Manchester), Lawrence Haddad (IDS), Joseph Assan (University of Liverpool), Heather Grady (The Ethical Globalisation Initiative, NY) and Andy Sumner (IDS).