Evaluating, Learning, and Adapting for Scale: Understanding How Norms-Shifting Interventions Work Through a Realist Evaluation of the Husbands’ School

Realist evaluation is a type of program evaluation that addresses a fuller set of program questions, with a focus on understanding how programs lead to individual and community change in the complex social environments in which programs operate. This brief explores how Passages applied realist evaluation to learn about norms-shifting interventions, as applied to the Husbands’ Schools intervention in Niger.