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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
The Centre for Crisis Prevention and Peace Advocacy (CCPPA) Nigeria
Factor 5: Order and Security

It is a membership body that works to provide education, as well as preventive and corrective responses to violence through consulting services. Their main areas of expertise are peace building and reconciliation.

National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (ANBCC) Romania
Factor 3: Open Government

Network of Advice Bureaux for citizens to have access to information and offers assistance services for people to understand their rights.

The Philippine Judicial Academy  Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

The Philippine Judicial Academy, a separate but component unit of the Supreme Court, has become an all-important factor in the promotion of judicial education in the Philippines.Its mission is to provide opportunities to develop judicial competence, instill sound values, and form constructive attitudes in its continuing pursuit of judicial excellence.

Claremont Institute United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Seeks to preserve the American Founding ideas and train young leaders to preserve these ideals and the constitutional guarantees of the American Revolution.

Justice Without Borders - JWB Singapore, Hong Kong S.A.R., China, Indonesia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

JWB empowers victims of human trafficking and exploitation to pursue legal remedies against their abusers in targeted host countries. JWB focuses on civil litigation in the host jurisdictions of Singapore and Hong Kong. They also have regional level operations through collaboration with local organizations along key migration routes to ensure victims have access to legal aid, irrespective of their location.

She Codes for Change Tanzania
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It aims to close the gender gap in the technology sector by educating, inspiring and equipping high school girls with the skills and tools for innovation and social change. It works with partners to inspire, educate, and equip girls with computing skills.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) Bangladesh
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to deliver environmenal justice and rights to people in affected areas and ensure the protection of the environment through due process, litigation and public awareness.

SEND Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It fosters good governance and equality, empowering communities through education in political participation, social accountability, and gender issues. Their programs promote the engagement of women in governance and the improvement of livelihoods through infrastructure development.

Jamaica Civil Society Coalition Jamaica
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to hold the government accountable on issues of governance, transparency and justice through its network of civil society, community and faith based organizations.

Law and Justice Foundation Australia
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Created in 1967 it works to create a fair justice system with equal access for all including those historically marginalized and the economically disadvantaged. It produces many publications supports community initiatives to equalize access to justice.

Global Rights Alert Uganda
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Ensures that citizens are the ones benefitting from the extraction of natural resources through transparency and institutional development

Ansar Burney Trust International Pakistan
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Human rights organization wroking to promote human rights and civil liberties in Pakistan through raising awareness, providing free legal advice and services and humanitarian assistance where needed. They have also been pushing for reforms in Police Stations, Prisons and Mental Institutions.

Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) Philippines Philippines
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

The Ombudsman and his deputies are responsible for investigating charges of misconduct and/or corruption on the part of government officials and employees.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) - Vietnam Vietnam
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

To contribute to the achievement of security and justice for all by making the world safer from drugs, crime, corruption and terrorism.

Teoh Beng Hock Trust for Democracy Malaysia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It commemorates the life of Teoh Beng Hock, a victim of political persecution and custodial torture by the state. The organization works to achieve a democratic nation free from political persecution, torture, and human rights violations by providing democratic education, legal and social support for victims, and advocating for truth and reconciliation.

CHANGE Trust - The Africa Center for Children’s Human Rights Kenya
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It works to reduce the vulnerability of African youths to restraints created by poor governance, laws, or policies. Their programs include policy research and documentation, child protection, and adoption and foster care.

The Uwiano Platform Kenya
Factor 5: Order and Security

It is a conflict prevention initiative that enhances collaboration between peace actors in the country. It was founded in 2010 to provide space for coordination of electoral-violence reduction initiatives.

Nepalese Army (NA) Nepal
Factor 5: Order and Security

NA has its own military intelligence unit and it serves as the third layer for maintaining security in the country.

Malawi Defence Force Malawi
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to defend the Malawi population and the interest of the country as well as maintaining order.

Africa Youth Empowerment in Agriculture and Industrial Development - AYEAID Nigeria
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It seeks to lessen unemployment rates in Africa through agricultural and industrial initiatives. Specifically, it aims to empower young people through sustainable agricultural programs.

Mélida Anaya Montes Movement El Salvador
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Through trainings, workshops, psychological and legal assistance, Las Melidas defend and empower women to promote equality and the end of gender violence

Children's Legal Rights and Development Center Philippines
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Children's Legal Rights and Development Center, Inc. is a non-profit legal resource human rights organization for children committed to advancing children's rights and welfare through the provision of its services based on human rights developmental framework approach and methodologies.

Maruah Singapore
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to promote and raise awareness on human rights issues and bring issues of justice in human rights to the forefront of public debate.

National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) United States
Factor 3: Open Government

Coordinates and trains organizations to advocate for social and economic justice in health, housing, education and work.

The Centre for Comparative and Public Law - CCPL Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Founded in 1995 at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Law, it aims to make the law more accessible to the community and more effective, and it works to advance knowledge on public law and human rights issues primarily from the perspectives of international and comparative law and practice.