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|width="90%"|is a change at the level of beneficiaries, end-users, communities. For example: Sustainable WASH services for all in districts x, y and z.
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| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|<font size="3" color=#969696>header IWRM</font>|width="90%" style="background:#ededed;"|is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximise the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems. (Global Water Partnership)|-| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|<font size="3" color=#969696>IWRM terminology</font>|width="90%"|Like any other sector, water resources managers use jargon. All of the following definitions are used in the Watershed Programme Document: IWRM, Water security, Water scarcity, Water governance, Ecosystems, Climate resilience. For people not trained in water resources management, such definitions may be new, overlapping and result in misunderstanding.<br>In this glossary, a number of key definitions are given. Often, more than just one definition exists. The purpose of this section is meant as a primer and help us speak a single language. It is possible that other definitions may fit your work better, so you should not feel restricted to use only the following definitions.What most of the definitions have in common is that they focus on both natural and social systems, that they try manage linkages between systems and that they integrate over scales (both geographical as well as hierarchical scales).|-| valign="top" style="text-align:left"|<font size="3" color=#969696>Partner</font>|width="90%" style="background:#ededed;"|text hereA stakeholder with whom we maintain an ongoing working relationship in which risks and benefits are shared, everyone contributes value (not just financial), and there is co-creation. In the Watershed Programme IRC, Akvo, Simavi and Wetlands International are partners as well as the organisations that we will engage with in a contractual relation. In addition, we may work well together with partners with whom we do not have a (financial) formal relationship.[[Image:stakeholders-partners.png|right|150px|Stakeholders and partners]]|-
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