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TOR

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Terms of Reference

Cross-government

The document defining a committee, workgroup or project’s purpose, scope, membership, authority, deliverables and operating arrangements.

Example: The TOR should say what the workgroup can decide, who sits on it and what it must deliver.

Also known as: terms of reference

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