The Importance of Locally Led Approaches in Development

"I really, really, really struggle to know what they mean or what they're up to. English is my first language and I've been trying to speak it and read it for close to 50 years," she says of LinkedIn adverts with a gender component. "If you're struggling to make sense of what the English acronym JEDC means, how on earth will that make sense to a local change maker in a village in Fiji or Vanuatu?" 'It's another example of this rarefied atmosphere where external actors sit around talking to themselves in language that only they understand,' he adds.