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 ;FRERMIP
 :Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Investment Program - A program financed by ADB and EKN with consultancy services provided by Northwest Hydraulic Consutants and Mott MacDonald, which provided structural and non-structural flood and riverbank erosion risk management measures in three high priority subproject areas, with the aim in subsequent projects of extending the protected reaches using designs adjusted to current riverbank erosion conditions and considering the possibilities of reclaiming lost floodplain land.
 ;FT
 ;FTs

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 :0-30 cm: intermittent flooding, land suited to HYV T Aman in monsoon season
 ;HL
 ;Horizontal Learning
 :Learning from peers; and in the context of Blue Gold, farmer-to-farmer learning in which a host WMG invites representatives from visiting WMGs to witness an event - such as the harvesting of a new variety of rice - to pass on the knowledge and lessons gained from their experience
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 :Project Director
 ;PDP
 :Polder Development Plan - presents an integrated analysis and planning for a specific polder covering community mobilization, water management, agriculture, business development, environment, gender, and institutions. A deliverable product under the BWDB Development Project Proforma (DPP).  PDPs for all 22 polders are available through the File Library.
 ;peripheral rivers
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 ;polder
 :An area of low-lying land surrounded by an earthen embankment to prevent flooding by river or seawater, with associated structures which are provided to either drain excess rainwater within the polder or to admit freshwater to be stored in a khal for subsequent use for irrigation.
 ;PPP
 :Public Private Partnership
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 ;Upazila Parishad chairman
 :Elected official assigned as Chief Executive of the Upazila Parishad.
 ;UZP
 ;Upazila Parishad
-:Upazila Parishad - Upazila Council, chaired by an elected Upazila Chairman. The civil administration at this level is headed by the UNO
+:Upazila Parishad or Upazila Council: Middle tier of local government, between Union and District, chaired by an elected Upazila Chairman. The civil administration at this level is headed by the UNO
 ;ustad
 :An ustad is a village-level technological entrepeneur who runs a local business providing services and/or goods eg electrical, mechanical repairs; cast iron foundry etc)
 ;value chain
-:the set of activities that need to be performed in a specific production sector in order to deliver the end product to the consumer. Agricultural value chains typically include input supply, growing/production, processing and marketing/distribution.
+:Value chain - the set of activities that need to be performed in a specific production sector in order to deliver the end product to the consumer. Agricultural value chains typically include input supply, growing/production, processing and marketing/distribution.
 ;VCA
 :Value Chain Analysis
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 ;WMAs
 ;Water Management Association
 :Water Management Association - In Blue Gold, the polder-level representative of WMGs, and signatory to an O&M Agreement with BWDB
 ;Water Management Cooperative Association
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 ;WMGs
 ;Water Management Group
 :Water Management Group - The basic organizational unit in Blue Gold representing local stakeholders from a hydrological or social unit (para/village). Through Blue Gold, 511 WMGs have been formed and registered. The average WMG covers an area of around 230 ha has 365 households or a population of just over 1,500.
 ;WAP
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 ;WMO
 ;WMOs
 ;Water Management Organizations
 :Water Management Organizations - The common name of organizations of the local stakeholders of a water resource project/sub-project/scheme. The concept WMO typically refers to WMGs and WMAs (and/or WMFs) together

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 ;CPW
 ;Community Poultry Workers
-:Members of the community who are trained to provide farmers with basic health and production support for their poultry
+:Community Poultry Workers: members of the community who are trained to provide farmers with basic health and production support for their poultry
 ;CPWF
 :Challenge Programme on Water and Food

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 ;DoC
 :Department of Cooperatives
 ;DoF
 :Department of Fisheries, a government department under the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock responsible for regulating the fisheries industry in Bangladesh
 ;DP III
 :Department of Planning III, one of three planning departments in BWDB headed by a Superintending Engineer which reports to the Chief Engineer (Civil) Planning to the Assistant Director General (Planning)

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 ;CI
 ;cropping intensity
-:The number of crop harvest per unit land per year. The average cropping intensity (CI) is calculated as the total area of all crops per year divided by the area of cultivable land. In its CI calculations BGP treats fish ghers as another crop; the DAE method excludes fish ghers in its CI calculations. Hence the CI calculated by BGP is higher than as calculated by DAE.
+:Cropping intensity - The number of crop harvest per unit land per year. The average cropping intensity (CI) is calculated as the total area of all crops per year divided by the area of cultivable land. In its CI calculations BGP treats fish ghers as another crop; the DAE method excludes fish ghers in its CI calculations. Hence the CI calculated by BGP is higher than as calculated by DAE.
 ;CII
 ;Cropping Intensity Initiative

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 :Identification and planning of both interventions and operations & maintenance within the catchment, resulting in an action plan for the catchment.
 ;CAWM
 :Community-led Agricultural Water Management - with DAE, Blue Gold established a network of schemes for demonstration purposes where locally-applicable annual cropping  patterns are introduced along with water level control facilitated by small-scale water infrastructure, and the development of value chain skills in farmers
 ;CDF
 ;CDFs
 :Community Development Facilitator - a member of the Blue Gold technical assistance team who lived and worked in a specific polder, and provided the main point of contact between the project and the polder communities
 ;CDMP
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 :Literally a traditional cooking stove. Used here to identify a household - an independent economic family unit - which shares kitchen facilities and eats together
 ;CI
-:Cropping Intensity
+;cropping intensity
 ;CII
-:Cropping Intensity Initiative
+;Cropping Intensity Initiative
 ;CIMMYT
 :International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre
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 ;Community Animal Health Workers
 :Community Animal Health Workers: members of the community who are trained to provide farmers with basic health and production support for their animals
 ;CLW
 ;Community Livestock Workers
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 ;community mobilization
 :Community mobilization is a process that brings together different societal factions to undertake development activities. Within BGP this especially refers to organizing the community members into Water Management Groups
 ;control structure
 :A permanent structure placed in a farm canal, ditch, or subsurface drainage conduit, which provides control of the discharge of surface and/or subsurface drainage by menas of flashboards, gates, valves, risers, or pipes.
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 :Compartmentalization Pilot Project (CPP)-FAP-20
 ;CPW
-:Community Poultry Worker
+;Community Poultry Workers
 ;CPWF
 :Challenge Programme on Water and Food
 ;cross-dam
 :Earthen embankment placed across a khal or river to prevent water flow.
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 ;decimal
 :one hundredth of an acre (0.004 ha)
 ;DFID
 :Department for International Development (UK government's development department); since September 2020, known as Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office - FCDO - after a merger with Foreign and Commonwealth Office - FCO
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 ;DPP
 ;DPPs
-:Development Project Proforma
+;Development Project Proforma
 ;drainage congestion
 :the south-western coastal zone is characterised by broad tidal flats and fluvio-tidal plains, lying approximately 1 metre above sea level, with drainage provided by numerous tidal creeks and channels a some major rivers. Empolderisation now protects the intrusion of sea water to agricultural areas but restricts the deposition of sediments to within the channels, thus reducing the drainage capacity of the rivers and channels, causing drainage congestion.

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 ;DoF
 :Department of Fisheries, a government department under the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock responsible for regulating the fisheries industry in Bangladesh
 ;DP III
 :Department of Planning III, one of three planning departments in BWDB headed by a Superintending Engineer which reports to the Chief Engineer (Civil) Planning to the Assistant Director General (Planning)
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 ;EC members
 :Members of the Executive Committees of Water Management Organisations, i.e. of Water Management Groups or Water Management Associations. Each Executive Committee consists of 12 members, of whom at least 30% should be women as per government rules
 ;economic growth
 :Increase in the capacity of a country or an economic region to produce goods and services. It also refers to the increase in market value of the goods and services produced by an economy. It is usually calculated using inflation adjusted figures, in order to discount the effect of inflation on the price of the goods and services produced