Month: April 2017
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What do aid agencies need to do to get serious on changing social norms?
It is one of the big questions of our time: how should we react to the rising tide of nationalism and populism (not just in the UK and the US, but also in India and the Philippines)? The issue gives rise to the question of how aid agencies should best engage with social norms – the…
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Oxford Word of the Month: April – Thongophone
noun: (also thongaphone, thong-o-phone) a percussive musical instrument formed by a series of hollow PVC pipes of varying lengths, the ends of which are struck with a rubber clapper such as a thong. THE STORY BEHIND THE WORD OF THE MONTH In a 2014 posting on the video-sharing website YouTube a man can be seen…