Rapid Scoping Review: Anti-Rollback Actors and Strategies

This report presents the findings of a rapid scoping review of queer and feminist organisations and social movements countering roll back in 14 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, and Türkiye). It was conducted for the United Kingdom (UK) Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in 2024. The rapid scoping review maps out the landscape of rollback politics across four key areas: sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI); sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); gender-based violence (GBV); and women’s public participation and visibility. We also explore how queer and feminist movements and organisations have worked to counter rollback. We outline the gaps in our current understanding of counter-rollback dynamics, and stress the importance of supporting a range of counter-rollback strategies to effectively challenge roll back, and progress towards gender and sexual justice and rights.To read the EPUB file, you must have an eBook reader installed. See the EPUB Download Guidelines for information on accessing EPUB files from IDS OpenDocs on your device. You can also download IDS eBooks for your device directly from Amazon, Apple, B&N, Google, or the British Library from which they will be delivered to you in the usual way from these sites.This PDF was created in July 2025 for compliance with the European Accessibility Act.The EPUB file conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standard.