Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung@ 40 in Ghana organisation that committed itself to cooperate with Parliament and to contribute to its development as a key democratic institution. Impact of FES cooperation In those critical years of the inception of the First Parliament of the Fourth Republic after a decade of abeyance of parliamentary democracy, FES rightly sensed the need for capacity building and institutional renewal as a first step to positioning Parliament to tackle the Herculean task of entrenching the country's fledgling democracy. Pursuant to this objective FES has collaborated with Parliament since 1993 in running series of workshops/seminars on capacity building and institutional strengthening for a number of Parliamentary Select Committees. Workshops for the Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs enabled Members to gain considerable insight into international diplomacy, Ghana's policy on international relations, conflict resolution, Ghana's peacekeeping drives as well as regional integration. Trans-border crimes such as human and drug trafficking pose grave threat to the security of countries within the ECOWAS sub-region. Workshops were, therefore, organised jointly for Ghana's Parliamentary Select Committees on Foreign Affairs and Defence and Interior as well as for Parliamentarians of the ECOWAS sub-region to formulate strategies to combat these menace within the ambit of their respective national security frameworks in line with established ECOWAS Protocols. Multilateral agreements of the World Trade Organisation(WTO) and the Economic Partnership Agreements(EPA) between ACP and EU member countries generated considerable debate as to Ghana's role and justification for her continued membership of these multilateral organisations. FES collaboration workshops were organised for the Select Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industry to undertake a 20