Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 156 prime objective of attaining sustainable food security in the sub-region, and the promotion of safe and efficient use of agro-chemicals. In this connection, the Position paper of the Trade Union Working Group on Food Security Challenges in West Africa, adopted at its 11 th meeting in Cotonou, 4-6 November, 2008, is very significant, as the trade unionists make demands for promoting food security through ECOWAS initiatives that draw strength from nationally coordinated activities. Also under discussion is the development of a Common Regional Policy for industrial and mineral resources development for the ECOWAS region. Prospects are also discernible in the efforts to address challenges which individual countries find themselves unable to manage. For example, the challenges of HIV/AIDS and other health issues, desertification, child trafficking, trade in arms and drugs compel national and regional institutions to fast track and co-ordinate efforts. Meanwhile, there is increasing civil society involvement in promoting good governance and peace as necessary pre-conditions for integration. CONCLUSION The increasing recognition of the role of civil society, the prevailing architecture of civil society with trade unions occupying a central place and the challenges emerging specifically from the EPA negotiations are pushing trade unions to be more proactive and policy oriented in the march towards integration in West Africa in particular and Africa in general. Organised labour has demonstrated that, in spite of various limitations, it has a lead role to play in forging ahead with civil society participation in a wide range of development concerns. Especially in the last five to eight years, organised labour in Ghana has positioned itself to play its historic role for the advancement of the regional integration agenda. It has built its capacity through various relevant studies, training sessions and strategic alliances. It has also mobilised its membership as well as other sections of civil society, including the media, to step up citizens-government engagement in furtherance of regional integration. The quest for enhanced regional food security and industrial development calls for cooperation that has implications for labour, hence the critical necessity to begin addressing concerns for migration and the harmonisation of labour legislation. Organised labour should pressurise for the removal of governmental and institutional bottlenecks inhibiting the integration. The increasing mobilisation of larger sections of the informal sector and activation of women as well as the increasing collaboration of trade unions and other civil society organisations are reliable indicators helping to explain the prospects for enhanced trade union role in pushing regional integration.