POLICY

The course of action for an undertaking adopted by a government, a person or another party. Instruments that exist to support policy and tools used to achieve policy objectives comprise some or all of the following: societal instruments, economic and command and control instruments, direct government involvement and institutional and organisational arrangements. It is to be mentioned that although law may be used as a policy instrument, there are cases where law may impose constraints on what policies may be adopted. For example, if the Constitution states that the shore is the patrimony of the nation or requires the payment of compensation for the expropriation of the land, this would restrict the policies which could be adopted for ICAM. Scialabba (1998)