Through concrete case studies for the three most populous countries of Asia, DAWN examines what policies and programs have worked, what have not, and what are the continuing challenges that need to be addressed in order to move the SRHR agenda forward, 25 years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, through an Equality, Quality and Accountability (EQA) framework. 

In addition to the approaches and actions of national governments, the research also examines the roles of other stakeholders – international agencies, private foundations and philanthropists, non-governmental organizations and social movements, as well as of regional and local governments and other bodies where possible and relevant to the country context.

The case studies foreground human rights through the Equality, Quality and Accountability lens and the ways in which these could be built into the SRHR agenda at the country level policies and programs to enable the operationalization and fulfillment of ICPD Program of Action, Beijing Platform for Action, Sustainable Development Goals and Universal Health Coverage commitments and to overcome the ongoing lacunae and barriers.