Many developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and new groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few developing countries remaining outside these regional schemes.This volume looks at how 'getting governance right' is a central element for successful RTA implementation. It operationalizes governance in the context of RTA implementation with a more narrow and technical term of 'monitoring' and provides eight important lessons for assessing monitoring around the world.