SNET At a Glance: The Social Norms Exploration Tool

The Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University, with support from the USAID-funded Passages project and members from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change, developed the Social Norms Exploration Tool (SNET), a participatory guide and set of tools to translate theory into practical guidance. Using the SNET can help you identify the social norms that hold relevant behaviors in place and design norms-shifting strategies.

The SNET provides step-by-step guidance, exercises, and templates to explore the norms that drive behaviors of interest within a specific context and offers guidance to interpret findings to inform intervention design and guide monitoring and evaluation.