Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 113 One of the preoccupations of the Ghanaian parties has been the implementation of the ECOWAS protocols. In line with the NDC's 1992 campaign manifesto to promote effective cooperation among the ECOWAS member-states, the government of the NDC worked with its counterparts in the sub-region to redefine a new vision for the ECOWAS. Consequently on July 24, 1993 an international conference was held in Cotonou, Benin to finalise a revised Treaty of the ECOWAS (Revised Treaty of the ECOWAS 1993). Furthermore, the NDC government was at the forefront in seeking for ways to harmonise and standardise hotels and other things in the'hospitality industry' for the West African sub-region. The NDC government was among the first to implement the standards in the country (ECOWAS Secretariat 1999). Committed to the ideals of the ECOWAS, particularly in the area of having a single currency for all member-states, the NDC government implemented the economic recommendations that could register Ghana's membership of the WAMZ. In a clear show of a sense of purpose, the NDC government hosted the international conference on April 20, 2000 in Accra that eventually led to the formal creation of the second Monetary Zone called the WAMZ(Daily Graphic 2000:1). The formation of the WAMZ was particularly significant for the ECOWAS' integration because it bounded five core members of the Community, namely, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone together in order'to accelerate a genuine union between the WAMZ and the West African Economic and Monetary Union(UEMOA) of the ECOWAS(Republic of Ghana, 2004:13). On its part, the NPP government demonstrated that it was committed to helping the ECOWAS to fulfil many of its objectives. For instance, the transformation of the ECOWAS Fund to the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development in 2001 owed much to the advocacy of the Ghanaian parties in Parliament and the tireless effort of the NPP government(IDEA, 2007:68). The same interest in the ECOWAS' affairs encouraged the NPP government to host a Summit of Heads of States and Governments of the five member states that form the WAMZ in Accra in December 19, 2003. The critical summit signed a statute to establish a West African Central Bank(WACB) – the body that would issue a common currency,'ECO' for use by the five countries with Accra as its headquarters(Republic of Ghana, 2004:13). In pursuance of their campaign manifestoes, both the NDC and NPP undertook domestic infrastructural projects that had far reaching effects on the ECOWAS protocol. For instance, the rationale for the Trans-Regional Highway project – involving the reconstruction of road networks linking Ghana to Cote d' Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Togo that began under the NDC and was continued by the NPP government was aimed at promoting free movement of goods and persons across the sub-region(Republic of Ghana, 2004:1& 3). Indeed, the NPP had already indicated,'we shall support and adhere to the ECOWAS regulations on freedom of movement within the sub-region'(NPP, Manifesto 2000:23). This vision was to be