Learning
Social Norms
Social norms are shared expectations of acceptable behavior by groups. They are often unwritten rules of how we are expected to act in a community or group. For example, a neutral social norm may be that you should say 'Excuse me' when you bump into a person. A destructive social norm in a group may be that everyone is expected to smoke tobacco after an evening meal. NO one says you must, but the expectation is there. Below we offer an online short course on social norms and some face-to-face training content for the training classroom to practice identifying and addressing social norms that endanger people in your community.
Online course
Take this 30-45 minute online course to better understand what social norms are and why they are important in your work. The course will show you examples of destructive social norms with examples of Africa individuals, families and communities who identified and addressed destructive norms of cutting, CEFM and SGBV.