In its efforts towards regional integration, civil society could forge alliances within sub-regions to take up governance and integration issues that go beyond national boundaries; identify treaties and protocols that have been signed but not implemented by states and monitor and provide support for realizing the African Peer Review Mechanism process at the national level. This emerged from a workshop under the theme of 'The Role of CSOs in Deepening Regional Integration' which was held in Addis Ababa in October last year. The Workshop was organized by the Development Policy Management Forum (DPFM) under a project of Ford Foundation’s Special Initiative for Africa (SIA).