In 2006 the ASSN was invited by DFID Caribbean (representing the UK Government) to form a technical team to advise the Government of Guyana on a Security Sector Reform (SSR) Implementation Strategy. The team was headed by Professor Eboe Hutchful, chair of the ASSN, and included Jonathan Sandy (formerly of the Office of National Security in Sierra Leone), Andre Coetzee (a policing expert from South Africa) and two colleagues from the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi, Mallika Joseph and Lt-General (rtd) Patankar. The task commissioned to the team consisted in drafting an implementation strategy from recommendations emanating from previous local and external studies and reports on the Guyanese security sector stretching back almost a decade. Because of the extreme polarization that characterises Guyanese politics, none of the recommendations had been agreed or implemented.

Hence, a draft strategy was put together by the ASSN assembled team and submitted in October 2006.  A year later the team was asked to return to further facilitate the process and update its work. This time around Johnny Kwadjo replaced Jonathan Sandy (who was unable to travel) and Lt-Gen Patankar in the current team. Nonetheless, important developments had taken place and the ASSN Action Plan was accepted by the Government of Guyana as the basis of an MOU, signed with the UK Government in August 2007. Following from this another crucial step ensued; the Parliament of Guyana approved the SSR Action Plan designed by the ASSN led team in 2 November, 2007. The result of this process represents a breakthrough in the Guyana security policy context and demonstrates the confidence that the ASSN team inspired in the Government of Guyana.