Social norms in market systems development: A practitioner-led research brief
- Partner: The BEAM Exchange, ACDI/VOCA, Habitat for Humanity International
- Publication Type: Brief
- Date: April 2017
- Team: Mike Klassen, Holly Shakya, Ben Cislaghi, Erin Markel, Scott Merrill, Marcus Jenal, Raksha Vasudevan, and Anna Garloch
- Recommended Citation: Klassen, M., Shakya, H., Cislaghi, B., Markel, M., Merrill, S., Jenal, M., Vasudevan & R., Garloch, A. (2017) Social norms in market systems development: a practitioner-led research brief. The BEAM Exchange. https://beamexchange.org/resources/983.
This research brief captures the experience of practitioners interested in integrating knowledge on social norms from fields outside of market systems into their work on identifying and measuring systemic change.
The brief incorporates perspectives from representatives of MarketShare Associates (MSA), CARE International, Habitat for Humanity International, ACDI/VOCA and Mesopartner. The social norms specialists are Ben Cislaghi from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Holly Shakya from the University of California San Diego.
This research brief outlines key ideas from social norms theory and explores implications for research and implementation by market systems development (MSD) programmes. It is meant to help programme teams grasp the social norms at play in their current situation so they can factor them into intervention design and iteration by monitoring the impacts of their interventions.
