Acronyms
- ACC: Administrative Committee on Coordination (UN)
- ACP : (Sub-Saharan) African, Caribbean and Pacific
- ADB: Asian Development Bank
- ALA : Asia and Latin America
- A: Agricultural
- BS: Basic Services
- CEC: Commission of the European Community
- CEES/NIS: Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly IndependentStates (of the former Soviet Union)
- COI: Cost of illness
- CV: Contingent valuation
- CVM: Contingent valuation method
- DAC: Development Assistance Committee
- DANIDA: Danish International Development Assistance
- DC: Decentralised co-operation
- DCP : Data collection platforms
- DESA: Department for Economic and Social Affairs
- DFID: Department for International Development
- DG: Directorate General
- DM: Demand management
- EA: Environmental analysis
- EC: European Commission
- ECU: European currency unit
- EDF: European Development Fund
- EIA: Environmental Impact Assessment
- EIB: European Investment Bank
- EIRR: Economic internal rate of return
- EOS: Division of Operational Support in Environmental Health
- EU: European Union
- EXACT: Executive Action Team
- FA: Focus Area
- FAO : Food and Agriculture Organisation
- FEA: Financial and economic analysis
- FIRR: Financial internal rate of return
- FP::: Financing Proposal
- GAD: Gender and development
- GATT: General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs
- GWP: Global Water Partnership
- HC: Human capital
- HPM: Hedonic property method
- HYCOS: Hydrological Cycle Observing System
- IADB: Inter-American Development Bank
- ICID: International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage
- IFAD: International Fund for Agricultural Development
- IHE: International Institute for Infrastructural Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering
- IHP: International Hydrology Programme
- IIMI: International Irrigation Management Institute
- INBO: International Network of River Basin Organisations
- INPIM: International Network on Participatory Irrigation Management
- IRC: International Water and Sanitation Centre
- ISPAN: Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East
- ITK: Indigenous technical knowledge
- IUCN : The World Conservation Union
- IWRM: Integrated Water Resource Management
- KAP: Knowledge, attitude and practice
- LEAD: The Leiden Ethno-systems and Development Programme
- M&E: Monitoring and evaluation
- MED: Mediterranean and Middle East
- MED-URB: Mediterranean and Middle East – Urban Programme
- MENA: Middle East and North Africa
- MVPE: Market valuation of physical effects
- MWWS: Municipal water and wastewater services
- NGO: Non-governmental organisation
- NIP: National Indicative Programme
- NPV: Net present value
- O&M: Operation and maintenance
- ODA: Official development assistance
- ODI: Overseas Development Institute
- OECD: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- PCM: Project Cycle Management
- PEEM: Panel of Experts on Environmental Management
- PIM: Participatory Irrigation Management
- PRA: Participatory rural appraisal
- PSC: Project support communications
- PTD: Participatory Technology Development
- RBO: River basin organisations
- RC: Replacement cost
- RIP: Regional Indicative Programme
- RIRBA: Rapid Integrated River Basin Assessment
- RRA: Rapid rural appraisal
- SADC: Southern African Development Community
- SIA: Social impact assessment
- SIDA: Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency
- SSA: Sub-Saharan Africa
- TCM: Travel cost method
- TOR: Terms of reference
- UK: United Kingdom
- UN: United Nations
- UNCED: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
- UNCSD: United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development
- UNDP: United Nations Development Programme
- UNECE: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
- UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme
- UNESCAP: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
- UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
- UNGASS: United Nations General Assembly Special Session
- UNICEF: United Nations Children's Fund
- US: United States
- USAID: United States Agency for International Development
- VIP: Ventilated improved pit
- WHO: World Health Organisation
- WHYCOS: World Hydrological Cycle Observing System
- WID: Women in development
- WMO: World Meteorological Organisation
- WR: Water resources
- WSS: Water supply and sanitation
- WSSCC: Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
- WTP: Willingness to pay
- WWC: World Water Council