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The note outlines some of the main changes identified in relation to norms around child marriage and girls’ education, based on primary research in Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda and Viet Nam. In all four countries, it was clear that shifts in these two areas reflected a wider set of changing norms and values, as well economic transformations and the effects of policies and programmes.  It was also striking how connected these different forces were: for example, a changing sense of possibilities for girls’ futures is contributing to girls attending school past puberty in many of the research communities; this is also driven by government investment that has increased the availability and reduced the costs of education, and by (in some countries) growing demand for educated wives, so that social pressures towards marriage in mid-adolescence have started to wane.