UNICEF is seeking to partner with an institution to develop and deliver a learning programme on social norms for its staff.

Purpose

The purpose of the learning programme is to build the capacity of UNICEF staff and, where relevant, staff of selected UN partners to stimulate and accelerate positive social change for children at scale.  The course will cover the heretofore neglected area of social conventions and social norms which is shown to be essential for sustained positive social transformation. It will also cover the related programming implications. Increasing this capacity will enable UNICEF staff to better work ‘upstream” and develop partnerships to scale up programming to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

The learning programme aims to make UNICEF staff able to recognise situations where harmful and/or discriminatory norms are in place and act on them. More specifically, it will:

• Support social change through the involvement of the stakeholders (including children and adolescents) in shifting societal norms and behaviours which results in violations of children’s rights (for example child and forced marriage, child trafficking, FGM/C, HIV stigma, youth violence)
• Strengthen the protective collective role of families and communities by stimulating reflective dialogue and open discourse on local values protective of children and their relation to human/child rights
• Promote meaningful and ethical child participation and empowerment in active dialogue on social norms and change

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