Services

• developing policies, strategies, and action plans
• institutional design and reform
• legal drafting and writing (including treaties, laws, regulations, guidelines, agreements and codes of practice)
• preparing legal studies, handbooks and guidelines and
• training and capacity building

• a national framework for sustainable development for South Africa;
• the national environmental policy of Swaziland;
• a ballast water policy for South Africa;
• the Cape Action Plan for People and the Environment (CAPE) strategy and action plan to conserve the Cape Floral Kingdom;
• the Western Cape Coastal Management Programme;
• the Wild Coast Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan; and
• the forest sector strategy and action plan for Surinam.

• transboundary areas (e.g. international institutional structures for the joint management of Lake Tanganyika, the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem, and the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Area), and the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP);
• environmental management and conservation (Malta, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland);
• integrated coastal management (South Africa and Eritrea);
• development planning and control systems that integrate land use planning, environment and heritage impact assessment (Western Cape & North West Province, South Africa); and
• forestry (Surinam).

1. Treaties

• the Interim Agreement for the establishment of the Benguela Current Commission;
• the draft Benguela Current Convention;
• the Convention for the Sustainable Management of Lake Tanganyika; and
• the SADC Forests Protocol.
  
  2. National, provincial and municipal legislation

South Africa:

• Integrated Coastal Management Bill to implement the White Paper for Sustainable Coastal Development in South Africa;
• Promotion of Sustainable Development Bill to provide for the integration of environmental, planning and heritage considerations into one integrated decision-making process for land use authorisations (Western Cape Province);
• Biodiversity Conservation Bill and Regulations (Western Cape Province)
• Waste Prevention and Management Bill (KwaZulu-Natal Province);
• Air pollution control by-laws (City of Cape Town);
• Environmental health by-laws and public open space by-laws (City of Johannesburg).
  

Swaziland:

• framework Environment Management Act and regulations on environmental impact assessment, waste, water pollution control, air pollution control and integrated pollution control;

Eritrea:

• Proclamation of an Exclusive Economic Zone, a Fisheries Act and regulations, and the first draft of regulations for the protection of the marine environment;

Malawi:

• Pesticides Act and regulations;

Malaysia:

• aquaculture legislation and codes of practice for shrimp aquaculture;

Malta:

• Plant Quarantine Act and regulations; and
• framework Environment Act;

Namibia:

• Parks and Wildlife Bill regulating protected areas and all indigenous flora and fauna in Namibia, and
• Pollution Control and Waste Management Bill;

Surinam:

• Aquaculture Act; and
• amendments to Forestry Act;

Cyprus:

• regulations to protect fish health and to regulate the inspection and quality control of fish products

Ancillary legal and policy documents

We have drafted a wide range of manuals, legislative guides, guidelines, and explanatory memoranda, policies, cabinet memoranda, strategies, action plans, permit forms, and compliance notices. (See Publications)

1. a guide to the environmental laws of Swaziland;
2. a compendium of the marine fisheries laws of the SADC region;
3. a guide to public participation in environmental impact assessment processes in the SADC region;
4. a guide to environmental decision-making for provincial and municipal officials in South Africa;
5. a Guide to the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union;
6. a Handbook for the Implementation of Environmental Legislation for use by the countries that wish to join the EU;
7. a Study examining the Legal Constraints to the Emergence of Efficient Domestic Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition (FAO);
8. the Legal and Institutional Aspects of Integrated Coastal Area Management (FAO); and
9. a Comparative Study of Legal and Administrative Measures to Restrict, Regulate or Benefit from the Ownership or Use of Land by Foreigners (FAO).