In January 2000, VEPDEF set up the basic documents for its operation with regard to the new dimensions and development policies put in place by the Cameroonian Government and in the Central Africa sub-region.
In February 2000, the NGO participated in Cotonou in Benin in a conference, organized by ISPEC in collaboration with the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences of the National University of Benin and the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve on "Africa's development challenges at the dawn of the 3rd millennium." VEPDEF's Executive Director took an active part in the work.