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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.  

Face-to-face sessions

Once you finish the online course, CBHFA volunteers may choose to hold face-to-face sessions to practice identifying and addressing destructive social norms in their own environments.  

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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. 

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