Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 154 by Bretons Wood institutions leaving in their trail very mixed results with daunting implications for the ongoing integration process. Even though the ECOWAS revised Treaty has recently widened and deepened integration with a stronger commitment by member states, multilateral and bilateral trade demands, especially the EPA, are undermining the rate, sequence and levels of integration, apart from undermining the productive base of national enterprises and maintaining West Africa as a supplier of primary commodities. As noted by the Working Group“It is necessary to implement an integration that favours intra­regional trade, increases productive activities of national companies, food security for the population, improve living conditions in rural areas, poverty reduction and industrialisation.” 169 These concerns have been shared by Jebuni and others who highlight the low level of commitment to the development of supranational authorities and how this is often attributed to the absence of a culture of power-sharing in the modern structures of politics in Africa. 170 Another explanation often given is weak domestic governance. The challenge of political commitment to the integration agenda is also highly articulated. This is manifest in the slow pace of ratification and implementation of ECOWAS protocols, and the low provisioning of resources for the integration project. While addressing these objective challenges, organised labour is itself has to contend with some challenges from the internal environment. Extending the organisation of trade unions to informal sector workers in the urban and rural sectors is deemed historically necessary and desirable and organised labour is accordingly working in that direction. This presents internal challenges for enhanced advocacy work that depend on the mobilisation and internal cohesion of the membership. On the other hand protecting and promoting the interests of informal sector workers who are largely self-employed is best pursued through advocating for more favourable policies. Role of the Private Sector and Civil Society: There is the need for greater participation of the private sector and civil society groups in the decision-making process. To date, the integration process has been left to government alone, to the virtual exclusion of non-state actors to the extent that the private sector and civil society in general, which are expected to drive the process and make the generality of the people enjoy the benefit of such a process have been left out. 169 West African Trade Union's Working Group: Position Papers on International Economy and Regional Integration, (Cotonou, FES, May 2009). 170 Jebuni, C. ibid