The northern states of Nigeria face a range of development and humanitarian challenges, including an under-resourced and understaffed health system that is further challenged by social norms and gender inequalities that drive health behaviors and influence service quality and utilization. A growing body of evidence makes it clear that achieving sustained and meaningful improvements across health sectors requires addressing gender and social norms. This project establishes a Learning Collaborative in northern Nigeria to improve programming and research that addresses the social norms that influence the success of development programs across multiple health and development areas. Donors will work to strengthen networks, build sustained expertise and capacity in public and private institutions, and support good quality programming. This projects brings together global social norms experts from five organizations (Overseas Development Initiative, Makerere University, Institute for Reproductive Health, FHI360, and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), together with the Center on Gender equity and Health, to provide distance and on-the-ground support and partnership to Nigerian partners who will build capacity and implement programs.

Project Materials: 

1. Project Brief
2. Baseline Assessment
3. Roadmap for Working Together – Key Output of Launch Meeting Held July 7-8, 2020

Related Project:

Global Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change

Related Project Materials: 

1. Engaging Communities in Exploring Social Norms: Learnings from the Social Norms Exploration Tool

2. Social Norms and AYSRH: Building a Bridge from Theory to Program Design

3. Top Themes from the Summit on Social Norms Research and Practice

4. How and Why Norms Matter for Sustainable Development: Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change

5. Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change: Key Resources

6. Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change: Essential Resources

7. Social Norms Exploration Tool at a Glance Fact Sheet

8. Community-Based, Norms-Shifting Interventions: Definition and Attributes

9. Identifying and Describing Approaches and Attributes of Norms-Shifting Interventions

10. Advancing social norms practice for adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health: The why and the how

Nigeria

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