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Policy & Legal Program Support - Illustrative Capabilities of the ME&A Team

With little interest in the longevity and care of the fishery, non-local fishermen focus on maximizing yield, sometimes using methods such as dynamite, cyanide, or muro-ami, which have extensive negative impacts on both the fishery and habitat. Whether the problem is local or foreign incursions, commons problems will require creative use of legislative, institutional, legal, social, economic, and technical approaches to address this complex issue.

GETF also helps shape and reform legal, institutional and judicial frameworks in developing countries and countries in transition. One of GETF's core strengths is in promoting and managing public-private partnerships at the global, national and local levels. Another major focal area for GETF involves helping partners in developing nations devise and implement sustainable financing mechanisms for water supply projects from the international to the village and household levels. The organization also works to ensure adequate water access, which includes implementing urban and rural water and energy conservation programs.

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) uses its comprehensive legal expertise in public international law, institutions, and processes to protect human health and the global environment. As a crossutting issue, water is integrated into several of CIEL's program areas, including primarily Human Rights and Environment, Trade and Sustainable Development and International Financial Institutions. CIEL's work includes: promoting the right to water in national legal systems and in relevant international legal forums; working extensively in three areas of the World Trade Organization that are of primary importance to water resource management—trade in goods, trade in services and agriculture; improving the social and environmental practices of international financial institutions with respect to water-related decision-making, including the ongoing privatization of water services; and tracking and monitoring a host of regional and bilateral trade and investment regimes—all with potential impacts on water resource management.