The Conference on Security, Stability Development and Co-operation in Africa (CSSDCA) [PDF] is a policy development process created to function within the framework of the African Union and was adopted at the 36th session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in July 2000 in Lome, Togo.

• Report of the Secretary-General on the Implementation of the CSSDCA, Council of Ministers (Seventy-Sixth Ordinary Session/Eleventh Ordinary Session of the AEC) 28 June - 6 July 2002 Durban, South Africa
• 1st Africa Union Western Hemisphere Diaspora Forum, December 17 -19, 2002 Washington, D.C., USA
• Decision on the Report of the Secretary General on the Implementation of the Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Co-Operation in Africa (CSSDCA) Process, Council of Ministers Seventy-sixth Ordinary Session/Eleventh Ordinary Session of the AEC 28 June - 6 July 2002, Durban, South Africa
• Memorandum of Understanding on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa, Heads of State and Government First Standing Conference on Security, Stability, Development and Cooperation in Africa, 8-9 July 2002 Durban, South Africa