Country: United States
The Social Norms Learning Collaborative (previously called the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change) is a network of individuals and organizations working to influence and shape the field of social norms. The Learning Collaborative aims to build consensus on promising practices for program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and scaling of proven norms-shifting initiatives. As of 2020, the Global Learning Collaborative is convened by the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University and the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California - San Diego.
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May 13, 2021
Social Norms Learning Collaborative
Country: United States
The Social Norms Learning Collaborative (previously called the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change) is a network of individuals and organizations working to influence and shape the field of social norms. The Learning Collaborative aims to build consensus on promising practices for program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and scaling of proven norms-shifting initiatives. As of 2020, the Global Learning Collaborative is convened by the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University and the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California - San Diego.
Content from Network Contact: Social Norms Learning Collaborative
Other findings include a 3% increase in reports of physical violence, including threats with a weapon, and a 3% increase in reports of online sexual harassment. The outward effects of the pandemic on health and the economy are just the tip of the iceberg, said Anita Raj, director of the Center on Gender Equity and Health at UCSD and lead researcher on the survey. Less visible effects of the pandemic include more violence, harassment and substance misuse, compounding stress felt in communities across the state. Latinx and Asian Californians are especially likely to witness this increased violence in their communities.
The survey also took into account the rise in political and social activism seen in 2020 and its apparent effects on firearm possession.
My Body, My Voice, My Choice: Launching UNFPA’s 2021 State of World Population Report
“As we’re talking, the bodily autonomy of millions of women and girls around the world is still denied,” said Klaus Simoni Pedersen, Acting Director of the Division of Communications and Strategic Partnerships for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) at the recent U.S. launch event of the
2021 UNFPA State of the World Population report, hosted by the Wilson Center and UNFPA. The report,
“The right to the autonomy of our bodies means that we have the power and agency to make choices without fear of violence or having someone else decide for us,” said Sarah B. Barnes, Project Director of the Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative. It is “the power to say yes and the right to say no,” said Pedersen. The report focuses on three dimensions of bodily autonomy: the right to decide whether to have sex, use contraception, or seek health care.
McDougal, Shakya, Dehingia, Bhan, Raj); United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF (
Lapsansky, Conrad); International Institute for Population Sciences (
Singh); Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego (
McDougal) The existence of spatial dependence and/or spatial heterogeneity can be important markers for patterns of social norms dispersion and variation across geographic communities, providing information that can inform social norms change intervention strategies. Research from around the world has revealed a complex nexus of factors that contribute to child marriage, including normative values regarding the status, value, and rights of women and girls. To that end, development and public health interventions to address child marriage have increasingly focused on the role of social norms, emphasising community engagement as well as social and behaviour change (SBC) strategies to shift these norms at the community level. In India, child marriage is encourage