A Call for Research: Adopting normative approaches to understanding violence against women and girls in public spaces

This guidance note is intended to support DFID advisors and programme managers with evidence, relevant examples and practical guidance on how to address harmful social norms in the context of programming to prevent VAWG.About the Violence against Women and Girls HelpdeskThe Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) Helpdesk is a research and advice service for DFID (open across HMG) providing:Rapid Desk Research on all aspects of VAWG for advisers and programme managers across all sectors (requests for this service are called “queries”). This service is referred to as the “VAWG Query Service”.