An administrative unit of government; also: An organization or office for collecting or providing information or news. (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bureau)
Private sector entities that do not intend to make a profit for themselves but represent the interests of their members, which are commercial enterprises and/or national or other business associations. (Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors, Basic documents: forty-ninth edition (including amendments adopted up to 31 May 2019). Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020.)
A business enterprise is an economic unit that covers its expenditure fully or at least mainly with income from sales, interests, dividends or insurance premiums. The principal objective of a business enterprise is to produce goods or services for sales on the market at prices that cover their production costs or to serve business enterprises engaged in such activity. (Statistics Finland. 2025. Business enterprise https://stat.fi/meta/kas/liikeyritys_en.html)
An entity designed to accomplish community ends. (Adapted from http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopici03.pdf (consulted May 2025);
A/54/861–E/2000/47, Annex, para. 6. Cited in UNTERM.)
A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes, and non-alcoholic grape juice. (Wikipedia, 2024. Vineyard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vineyard)
Group of personnel serving public administrations. (Translated from Real Academia Española: Diccionario de la lengua española, 23.ª ed., [versión 23.8 en línea]. [Consultado en 2025]. https://dle.rae.es/funci%C3%B3n)
Civil society gathers all the non-state actors and non-profit NGOs created around shared values and objectives; this category includes: organizations created by and/or working on behalf of specific groups; organizations representing, for instance, small food producers, consumers, workers, youth, women or indigenous peoples; humanitarian NGOs working on emergency situations or on long-term strategies; geographic, thematic, sectoral, cultural or religious organizations. (Adapted from HLPE. 2018. Multistakeholder partnerships to finance and improve food security and nutrition in the framework of the 2030 Agenda. A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security, Rome: https://www.fao.org/3/CA0156EN/ca0156en.pdf)
A coalition is formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political, military, or economic spaces. (Wikipedia. 2025. Coalition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition)
A government agency, regulatory agency or statutory authority which operates under the authority of a board of commissioners. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission)
A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. (Wikipedia. 2025. Committee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee)
A social group of organisms sharing an environment, normally with shared interests. In human communities, a social group possessing shared beliefs and values, stable membership and the expectation of continued interaction. It can be bounded geographically by political or resource boundaries or socially as a community of individuals with common interests. (Berkes, F., Mahon, R., McConney, P., Pollnac, R.C. and Pomeroy, R.S. 2001. Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative Directions and Methods. International Development Research Centre, Ottawa. Online (http://www.idrc.ca/books/).)
A public or private non-profit organization that is representative of a community or segments of a community and provides educational or related services to individuals in the community. (UNTERM citing S/2013/258, para 61 (1 May 2013); DP/1991/57, para. 5 (9 May 1991))
A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states united for purposes of common action. (Wikipedia. 2025. Confederation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation)
A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal. (Wikipedia, 2024 Consortium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consortium)
