Women from the Aberu Kanyoutu group making cloths with sewing machines provided by DSW Uganda. © Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment

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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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Bibliography

22 March 2021

A family group of women in India. © World Bank / Curt Carnemark
The intersecting norms of gender and caste in South Asia
Author: Priya Narayan

Published by: ALIGN

Interview

3 March 2021

A girl with a hearing aid amongst peers at a school in Chennai, India. © Pippa Ranger/Department for International Development
The expectation of perfection: interview with Nidhi Goyal on the intersection of gender and disability norms in India
Author: Nidhi Goyal

Published by: ALIGN

Book/Book chapter

1 March 2021

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Gender, social norms, and women's economic empowerment [Chapter from Women’s Economic Empowerment: Insights from Africa and South Asia]
Author: Rachel Marcus

Published by: IDRC, Government of Canada

ALIGN's flagship report

9 December 2020

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Gender, power and progress: How norms change

ALIGN's new, flagship report is about gender norms, and the ways gender equality, women’s and girls’ rights, and norms that shape those rights, have progressed over time.

13 December 2018

A woman with a baby on her back. Copyright: Annie Spratt
Data, tools and measurement

This new guide, produced by ALIGN, looks at recently published resources on measuring gender norms and norm change.

Blog

24 November 2020

Nohra Padilla, leader of the Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB) leads a contingent of waste pickers as they demonstrate against city policies and programmes affecting waste pickers. © Juan Arredondo/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment
How can we better understand and measure violence against women in politics?
Authors: Nandita Bhan, Jennifer Yore, Anita Raj

Published by: ALIGN

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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
Education
Education
Health
Health
Gender-based violence
Gender-based violence
Economic empowerment
Economic empowerment
Men, boys and masculinities
Men, boys and masculinities
Copyright: Annie Spratt
How norms change
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Cross-cutting themes
Copyright: Annie Spratt
Data, tools and measurement

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