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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Africa Foundation for Community Development Uganda
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It works to promote human rights and ensure equality under the law through advocacy, free legal services, community outreach, and promoting electoral reform

Human Rights Centre Uganda Uganda
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to promote human rights in Uganda by protecting human rights defenders, increasing government support for human rights, and promoting public awareness

Singapore Green Building Council Singapore
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Sets the standards for sustainability and environmentally conscious planning, and enjoys significant overreach on public private partnerships.

Prison Justice League United States
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to end mass incarceration in Texas through legal assistance, litigation and providing resources to communities most affected by incarceration.

Navsarjan India
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Navsarjan is a grassroots organization in the Indian state of Gujarat dedicated to ensure human rights for all. It's core mission is to eliminate discrimination based on untouchability practices and ensure prevalence of the rule of law.

Society for Human Rights and Prisoners' Aid (SHARP) Pakistan
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It has been working with Afghan refugees, non-Afghan asylum seekers, and IDPs to register them and providing them legal aid. It also works to promote human rights through education, seminars, lectures, symposium, training, workshops, mass media and print media.

Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development - ECDD Ethiopia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It promotes and facilitates disability inclusive development, economic empowerment, and the improvement of healthcare and educational services. It fosters the inclusion of disability issues and persons with disabilities in mainstream government and non-governmental service delivery and development programs.

International Institute for Child Protection - IICP The Gambia
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It was founded in 1998, in response to the social crisis triggered by the dramatic increase of human rights violation against children. IICP is the local partner of Anti-Corruption International, and it seeks collaboration between different organizations to fight corruption in Gambia.

The Centre for Integrated Health Programs - CIHP Nigeria
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It supports high-quality HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis care and treatment in Nigeria. They work with a family-focused approach aimed at increasing local ownership, funding effectiveness, and strengthening of local talent.

The Constitution and Reform Education Consortium - CRECO Kenya
Factor 3: Open Government

It was founded in 1998. Its members comprise 23 organizations implementing diverse human rights, democracy, and governance activities in various parts in the 47 counties of Kenya.

Sierra Club United States
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Undertakes actions to protect wildlife and the environment and to push for legislation on environment related issues and alternative energies.

Rural Human Rights Activists Programme (RHRAP) Liberia
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to update and improve the criminal justice system for the protection of all, and to guarantee access to economic and environmental rights for vulnerable portions of society.

Jubilee Institute Zambia Zambia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Empowers churches and communities to fight poverty and improve lives of those living with HIV/AIDS

Protect and Save the Children - P.S. The Children Malaysia
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Founded in 1999, it focuses on the prevention, intervention, and treatment of child sex abuse. Their activities include advocacy, education, and court support in coordination with local welfare services.

American Judicature Society United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to protect the integrity of the American justice system through special monitoring committees, research, publications and advocacy.

Tanzania Health and Medical Education Foundation (TAHMEF) Tanzania
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Founded in 2015, it aims to improve health care and well-being for Tanzanians of all ages, contributing to health care provision and deliverance. It perceives health care as a fundamental right that should be available for all individuals with the highest attainable standards of care from well trained medical personnel.

Abu Dhabi Accountability Authority (ADAA) UAE
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Promotes accountability and transparency in the public sector, specifically
government departments, local councils and all companies or projects in which the government owns more than a 50 per cent share.

ASCHIANA Afghanistan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

ASCHIANA is an Afghan NGO that works to improve children's rights by providing services and support to street working children and their families.

Myanmar Alliance for Transparency and Accountability - MATA Myanmar
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

It is a national network comprised of civil society actors from all states and regions of Myanmar. It advocates for transparency and accountability, with an emphasis on extractive industries and natural resource governance. It also supports members to collaboratively analyze potential economic, political, and social reforms.

Prison Care and Counseling Association (PRISCCA) Zambia
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Seeks to improve prisoner conditions by supplementing government efforts in the form of resources and advocating for reform

The Environmental Foundation for Africa Sierra Leone
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Founded in 1992 in the United Kingdom, it works in Sierra Leone and Liberia, raising awareness about environmental issues and promoting energy conservation. It is a member organization of the Green Actors of West Africa (GAWA) and The Environmental Forum for Action (ENFORAC).

National Legal Aid Service Bangladesh
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to legal aid services to people in need, and is involved in transforming Bangladesh's criminal justice system through legal aid training for paralegals in prisons and transforming laws for more restorative justice.

Glastnost Defence Foundation (GDF) Russia
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to defend freedom of speech and of the press through legal assistance, information and research and the release and assistance of emprisoned journalists.

Hong Kong Free Press - HKFP Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Hong Kong Free Press is an English-language news media outlet seeking to unite critical voices on local and national affairs. Their platform aims to monitor and protect Hong Kong's core values and freedoms by reporting without fear or interference, free of charge, and independently.

Kaldor Center for International Refugee Law Australia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Researches both national and international issues of displacement and is the first and only institute studying international refugee law.