The Committee on Partnership for Development Policies is a CIDI organ established under Article 54 of the Rules of Procedure for the CIDI Regular and Special Meetings. The Committee has the following functions:

• To prepare, at the request of the regular meetings of CIDI, the draft strategic plan and draft inter-American programs using, when appropriate, any technical inputs to those drafts that may arise from sectoral or specialized meetings on the corresponding thematic subject;
• To monitor implementation of the substantive aspects of the inter-American programs and make recommendations necessary to ensure coherence between cooperation policies and the projects and activities undertaken by the Executive Secretariat for Integral Development and other pertinent areas of the General Secretariat;
• To prepare the draft yearly schedule of meetings held within the framework of CIDI: sectoral or specialized at ministerial or equivalent level, inter-American committees, and other high-level policy and technical meetings;
• To analyze the annual work plans and semiannual progress reports of the pertinent areas of the General Secretariat as well as the reports of the IACD, and submit to the regular meetings of CIDI the recommendations that it deems appropriate; and
• To take up other matters within its sphere of competence that regular or special meetings of CIDI assign to it.