Safe cities programme mural in Guatemala City ©UN Women/Ryan Brown
Safe cities programme mural in Guatemala City ©UN Women/Ryan Brown

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The Advancing Learning and Innovation
on Gender Norms (ALIGN) platform

ALIGN specialises in research and knowledge sharing on gender and social norms, looking at the impact of discriminatory and harmful norms and how they change. We share knowledge from our own research and that of our ever-expanding community of practice.

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Report

23 November 2021

An illustration of a social movement. © DESIGNBYMAIA.COM
Mobilising for change: how women's social movements are transforming gender norms
Authors: Diana Jiménez Thomas Rodriguez, Caroline Harper, Rachel George

Published by: ALIGN

Blog

9 November 2021

Demonstrators raise placards at one of the protests outside COP26 in Glasgow, November 2021 ©Toby Parkes/Shutterstock/2070571724
Gender Day at COP26: We must listen to women building environmental movements
Author: Diana Jiménez Thomas Rodriguez

Published by: ALIGN

28 October 2021

Girls in Eastern Terai, Nepal meet twice a week to listen PMC's 'Hilkor (Ripples in water)' Drama. The drama covers the story of child marriage and gender based violence. ©PMC
Case studies series: Norms and broadcast media

Blog

26 October 2021

Flowers with messages about women’s safety left by people who attended a vigil for Sarah Everard in Clapham Common. March 2021, London. Credit: Vincenzo Lullo/Shutterstock.com
What do recent high-profile cases of male violence in the UK tell us about gender norms?
Author: Emilie Tant

Published by: ALIGN

Report

31 August 2021

A still from the ‘Typically’ video by Bloody Good Period, Strange Beasts and Mother, 2021.
Gender norms and the ‘period revolution’
Author: Yasmin Watling

Published by: ALIGN

Briefing paper

25 August 2021

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Are Zimbabwe’s local authorities safe spaces for female councillors?

Published by: ALIGN, Social Healing and Accountability Research

Briefing paper

25 August 2021

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Cameroon: Norms and gender-based violence in hospitals

Published by: ALIGN, Community Centre for Integrated Development

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Women showing their agricultural produce, India. © Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank

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Themes

Health workers put on their personal protective equipment before treating people suspected of having Ebola at the Ebola Transition Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo. © World Bank/Vincent Tremeau
Covid-19
At student writing on a board. © Sarah Farhat / World Bank ID: 20170317-Tanzania-Farhat-8282
Education
Women in Indonesia leading the COVID-19 Prevention Response. © UN Women/Putra Djohan and Ali Lutfi
Health
Gender-based violence
Gender-based violence
A Rohingya woman produce artisan handycarfts at a multi-purpose women's centre run by UN Women in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. © UN Women/Mahmudul Karim/BRC03172
Economic empowerment
Masculine and feminine in balance - pictured as balanced balls on scale © GoodIdeas/Shutterstock/1589741737
Men, boys and masculinities
circles
How norms change
Copyright: Persnickety prints
Cross-cutting themes
A Rohingya woman produce artisan handycarfts at a multi-purpose women's centre run by UN Women in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. © UN Women/Mahmudul Karim/BRC03172
Data, tools and measurement

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