The Constitutional Court plays a key role in monitoring the constitutionality of laws and international treaties. However, infrastructure development and housing issues dominated the agenda of the new ministry. This had the effect of stifling environmental action at central level, decreasing the sector’s political profile and lowering the ministry’s credibility with other stakeholder groups as the leading actor of SINA (ODI, 2010). It is primarily responsible for environmental policy making in a wide range of areas (Figure 2.2).