🤔 Sure, acronyms are practical and efficient: WHO, SDGs, KPIs, etc. You know the deal. But they have a major downside: Confronted with too many unknown ones, people might stop listening and caring. Which is detrimental if the message is important. „In development policy, acronym overuse is old news. It is more important than ever that as many people as possible understand what both development policy and research actually achieve,“ writes D+C‘s Katharina Otieno, who analysed the phenomenon. 👇 https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/given-current-state-global-politics-it-particularly-problematic-when-acronyms-and-jargon