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The objectives of the Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project are to: a) maximize the sustainable benefits to riparian communities from using resources within the basin to generate food, employment and income, supply safe water, and sustain a disease-free environment; and b) conserve biodiversity and genetic resources for the benefit of the riparian communities and the global community. A further project objective is to harmonize national management programs in order to achieve, to the maximum extent possible, the reversal of increasing environmental degradation. This project has eight components. They include: 1) fisheries management; 2) fisheries research; 3) fisheries extension, policies, and laws; 4) water hyacinth control; 5) water quality monitoring; 6) industrial and municipal waste management; 7) land use and wetland management; and 8) policy and institutional framework.