This summary gathers top considerations and recommendations from IUCN’s expansive study on Gender-Based Violence and Environment Linkages: The Violence of Inequality. Published in this critical post-2020 period of environmental decision-making, and with less than a decade to meet targets of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this summary is designed to support policymakers and implementers to address and respond to gender-based violence and environment links.

This brief highlights the adaptive management approaches used and learning gained throughout implementation of two Passages Project-supported interventions during the period of 2015–2020: Masculinite, Famille, et Foi and Growing Up GREAT!. You can also view the recording for the associated webinar, “Learning, Adapting, and Norms-Shifting: Lessons from the Passages Project,” in both French and English.

This how-to note on identifying and advancing equitable social norms introduces the definition of social norms, including gender norms, and how these norms relate to gender-based violence; the process for identifying and exploring social norms; and a worksheet to help readers apply this information.

This brief contains a summary checklist of the best practices and recommendations for designing, implementing, and evaluating virtual interventions. This tool can serve as a starting point to guide an organization to effectively plan for a new program or to adapt an existing intervention.