Jargon Hurts the Poor

Bafflegab can keep vital information away from the people who need it the most.

By: Floyd Whaley

“Text: Gender-empowering multi-sectoral capacity building facilitates knowledge sharing and engages stakeholders in inclusive sustainability.”

If you understood that sentence, you probably work in the world of international development. If you didn’t, you are probably part of the rest of the world that is essentially locked out of underst…