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| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|<font size="3" color=#969696>Allies</font>
|width="90%" style="background:#ededed;"|share or buy into, to some extent, in the ultimate goal of the programme (sustainability of WASH services) and are potential partners in the programme.
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| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|<font size="3" color=#969696>Climate resilience</font>
|width="90%" style="background:#ededed;"|can be generally defined as the capacity for a socio-ecological system to: (1) absorb stresses and maintain function in the face of external stresses imposed upon it by climate change and (2) adapt, reorganize, and evolve into more desirable configurations that improve the sustainability of the system, leaving it better prepared for future climate change impacts (Folke, 2006).|-| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|<font size="3" color=#969696>Ecosystem management</font>|width="90%"|is an approach to maintaining or restoring the composition, structure, function, and delivery of services of natural and modified ecosystems for the goal of achieving sustainability. It is based on an adaptive, collaboratively developed vision of desired future conditions that integrates ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional perspectives, applied within a geographic framework, and defined primarily by natural ecological boundaries. (Millennium Assessment, 2005)
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| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|<font size="3" color=#969696>Ecosystem services</font>
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