Ghana in Search of Regional Integration Agenda 173 Educational institutions in Ghana can play a vital role in the facilitation of regional integration because most of them have developed infrastructure and the requisite mandates in place. What is therefore required to utilise these existing structures is therefore a systemic policy directive which would provide guiding principles for the educational institutions on facilitating regional integration to safeguard against duplication and provide some sort of monitoring and evaluation of the programs being organised by the educational institute. A successful regional integration project transcends the grand venue of meeting places into the lives of ordinary men and women. Educational institutions in Ghana must therefore, whilst exploiting existing infrastructure, develop new cost effective strategies for public education and awareness creation in order to reach as many persons as possible. However, even as attempts are made to minimise the costs involved it is still important to bear in mind that training and education are not cheap. It requires the provision of funds and other resources to facilitate teaching and learning. However, many educational institutes are resource deprived which means that they may have some challenges with regards to playing the roles outlined herein for them. Governments, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders must be willing to help offset some of the burden. Another challenge envisaged with the roles of the university would be the long bureaucratic delays that are characteristic of academic and faculty boards. Easy as it may appear, the introduction of new courses as well as mounting fresh courses is not an easy task in tertiary institutions. It may therefore be useful to have some consultative meetings at which all stakeholders are brought on board so that most persons who may later have to deal with some of the above-mentioned roles would have a fair idea of the need for training. Beyond the challenges above-mentioned, is the bigger challenge of finance which has been the bane of many good ideas. Educational institutions in Ghana must therefore identify innovative ways to source funding for their activities. The central government through the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports, must allocate funds for some of the activities aimed at facilitating regional integration in the country. Pupils and students could also be made to bear a part of the cost if a token fee is built into the fees they pay. At the basic and senior secondary school level, Parents Teachers Associations could be encouraged to devise innovative ways to help fund some of the extracurricular activities through for instance, special levies, fund raising activities such as dinner dances or luncheons. At the tertiary level, students can help raise funds for the extracurricular activities in a similar manner as they raise funds for hall week celebrations. This would however not be enough and the various institutions have to obtain funding from other sources. Regional and sub-regional organisations whose