CPD has established a Reference and Documentation Unit (RDU) which serves as a depositor of books, monographs, journals, periodicals and newspaper-clippings on current and strategic policy issues. The CPD plans to develop its Reference and Documentation Unit by augmenting its capacity through on-line access to information and procurement of relevant published documents. Information generated through CPD's dialogue programmes as part of its research activities is also systematically catalogued by the RDU. The RDU also takes special efforts to collect intermediate fugitive materials which are not generally available in the libraries and are not systematically collated.

The RDU is generally for in-house use.