Anticipating, responding to, and mitigating the impact of anti-rights narratives on SRHR in Asia and the Pacific

This Toolkit is designed to guide and equip SRHR defenders and advocates working in poorly funded, hostile, or opposing environments with the tools necessary to sustain their movement and strategise responses.

This Toolkit is a cohesive guidance document, complete with practical tools, to assist individuals and groups working in SRHR at both the national and regional levels to anticipate, respond to, and mitigate the impact of anti-rights narratives on SRHR in Asia and the Pacific.

This Toolkit offers approaches and guidance for assessing, addressing, and responding to these growing threats through strategic foresight and evidence-based advocacy, to strengthen SRHR movements and support the fulfilment of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (ICPD PoA) across the region.

The Toolkit contains two modules:

1. Sustainable Movements – guidance on how to monitor and analyse trends as well as protect our own
2. Strategic Response – guidance on message making, identification of opponents, and engagement of intersectional allies.

This Toolkit was developed under the technical guidance of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for the Asia Pacific Regional Mechanism to advance ICPD beyond 2025. 

The TAG consisted of representatives from Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (APA), Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), International Planned Parenthood Federation East and South East Asia & Oceania (IPPF ESEAOR), FP2030 Asia - Pacific Hub, MSI Reproductive Choices, and in partnership with UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund in Asia and the Pacific.