In June 2020, UNFPA released a compendium on social norms change to achieve gender equality, which provides a framework for programmatic approaches to norms change at scale.
“This document presents some of the most promising strategies for changing social norms and achieving gender equality. A greater understanding of the conceptual background of social norms and norms change provides a schematic – a skeleton outline – for social transformation. The compendium presents the tested processes of social norms change and a programme design framework, as applied to programming to end female genital mutilation. These processes are iterative, simultaneous and self-reinforcing and can be applied to other thematic areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights.”
Read the compendium online, or directly download it How Changing Social Norms is Crucial in Achieving Gender Equality
