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| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|Advocacy for Development

|width="90%" style="background:#ededed;"| We define advocacy for development as a ''wide range of activities conducted to influence decision makers at different levels'', with the overall aim of combatting the structural causes of poverty and injustice. This definition follows the widely held belief that CSO advocacy is a tool to fight the causes of poverty or injustice and influence structural change, aiming to change social, political and policy structures and to challenge power structures. This concept of advocacy goes beyond influencing policy and aims for sustainable changes in public and political contexts. This work includes awareness raising, legal actions and public education, as well as building networks, relationships and capacity. (Advocacy for Development, Margit van Wessel et. al., 2016)

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| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|Climate resilience

|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).

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| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|Ecosystem management

''If we do X (action), then we will produce Y (change/shift towards peace, justice, security)''

Or ''We believe that by doing X (action) successfully, we will produce Y (movement towards a desired goal)''

It is often helpful and clarifying to extend the statement a bit further by adding at least some of the rationale or logic in a ''because'' phrase. This then produces the formula: ''If we do X..., then Y..., because Z....''

Making a theory of change explicit allows us to reveal our assumptions about how change will happen, how and why our chosen strategy or programme will achieve its outcomes and desired impacts, and why it will function better than others in this context. Revealing these assumptions also helps identify gaps and unmet needs, including additional necessary activities or actors that should be engaged. We may also detect activities that are extraneous, weak or that fail to contribute to achieving the overall goal.

Source: Practical Approaches to Theories of Change in Conflict, Security & Justice Programmes, Part I: What they are, different types, how to develop and use them, Peter Woodrow with Nick Oatley, March 2013

|-| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|WASH Services|width="90%"| refers to the continued, sustainable provision of water, sanitation and hygiene services that meet national norms and standards. Moving the sector from a focus on providing only WASH infrastructure to providing WASH services is a key component of our advocacy work.|-| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|Water governance|width="90%" style="background:#ededed;"| is the set of rules, practices, and processes through which decisions for the management of water resources and services are taken and implemented, and decision-makers are held accountable. (OECD, 2015)|-| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|Water Scarcity|width="90%"|is defined as the point at which the aggregate impact of all users impinges on the supply or quality of water under prevailing institutional arrangements to the extent that the demand by all sectors, including the environment, cannot be satisfied fully. Water scarcity is a relative concept and can occur at any level of supply or demand. Scarcity may be a social construct or the consequence of altered supply patterns - stemming from climate change for example. An area is experiencing water stress when annual water supplies drop below 1,700 m3 per person. When annual water supplies drop below 1,000 m3 per person, the population faces water scarcity, and below 500 m3 absolute scarcity. (UN-Water)|-| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|Water Security|width="90%" style="background:#ededed;"| is the availability of an acceptable quantity and quality of water for health, livelihoods, ecosystems and production, coupled with an acceptable level of water-related risks to people, environments and economies. (Grey and Sadoff 2007)

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