An approach that integrates management and governance across the multiple sectors of food, energy, water, and ecosystems.

 The range of social, economic, political and administrative systems that are in place todevelop and manage water resources, and the delivery of water services, at different levels ofsociety and among different water-using sectors.

Incentives designed and implemented with the purpose of adapting individual decisions to collectively agreed goals.

Mechanisms for public and stakeholder participation including action planning workshops, citizens’ dialogues, consensus conferences, communities of practice and task forces

Methods that decision-making units use to set the price of a product or service based on costs, value, demand, and competition.

The summary of a decision-making unit’s performance, based on benefits and costs, that provides an accurate forecast of future financial performance.

Bring together stakeholders, such as governments, civil society, and the private sector, who may have competing interests at times, to accomplish an objective.