Nigeria Gender Norm, Attitudes, Health and Wellbeing Research
The Nigeria Gender Norms Research is a multi-year project supported by BMGF. The project is utilizing a multi-pronged approach to measure key norms influencing behaviour and outcomes for young adolescents (10-14-year-olds) across twelve States and the Federal Capital Territory.
This three-year project is a community randomized control trial to inform the design of effective interventions for shifting social norms in Nigeria. The project is in its early phase of implementation, scoping and engaging multi-stakeholders working around key thematic areas including adolescent sexual reproductive health, women economic empowerment, gender-based violence, child early and forced marriage, and human papilloma virus vaccination.
In addition, the project is working with the National Population Commission to conduct a household listing in the targeted states, in preparation for a household survey to explore contextual social norms. We hope that the project will work with diverse reference groups to identify, measure and shift gender norms influencing the health and socio-economic outcomes of very young adolescent girls and boys in Nigeria.
It will utilize community randomize control trials to interventions to shift harmful gender norms within affected communities. Lessons from this research will inform policy and programs related to early adolescents.
