A Framework for Understanding What Works to Shift Gender Norms and Attitudes for Very Young Adolescents

Description

Gender norms dictate appropriate gender roles and often have profound implications for health and wellbeing, especially for adolescents. The Global Early Adolescent Study (GEAS) is the first international study that explores the mechanisms by which gender as a social system informs health and wellbeing across adolescence, and how this process unfolds in a range of contexts. GEAS follows cohorts of very young adolescents (VYA) aged 10-14 years for up to five years in five countries.

Join this engaging and dynamic discussion about how three GEAS interventions challenged gender stereotypes and harmful practices in early adolescence to improve the social and health trajectories of VYAs. The webinar will bring together researchers and practitioners to share key insights and lessons learned from cohort data and/or implementation research, critically examine working mechanisms and program assumptions, and propose an overarching theory of change to guide future programming and implementation research. This webinar also seeks to bridge the gap between academics and practitioners across the group to accelerate progress in developing and scaling effective VYA interventions.

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