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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
The Malaysian Information Network on Disabilities - MIND Malaysia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

This initiative promotes and monitors the implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) relevant to people with disabilities. It also facilitates access to healthcare services, education, and employment.

Law Council of Australia Australia
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

A federal organisation that represent lawyers and their professin in order to improve law and the administration of justice.

Law Development Centre Uganda
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Facilitates access to justice through legal training, research, and community legal resources

West African Development Organization - WADO The Gambia
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It fosters sustainable projects and works to encourage a low carbon economic development within West Africa. In Gambia, it works in partnership with the National Youth Association for Food Security (NAYAFS), and the National Coordinating Organisation for Farmer Associations of the Gambia (NACOFAG).

Integrity Section - Supreme Court of Justice El Salvador
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Works to investigate and prosecute cases of misconduct, missapropriation of funds and corruption by government officials

Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

MAP represents a cross-section of CEOs, COOs and other top management practitioners from the largest local and multinational companies operating in the Philippines. It works with its members and partners with other business organizations, the government and civil society in conducting programs that promote good governance, global competitiveness and sustainable development.

Pan African Lawyers Union Tanzania
Factor 3: Open Government

It works in partnership with a range of governmental and non-governmental actors to achieve shared goals and objectives. It is one of the most prominent and active external partners of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR).

Legal Resource Centre - LRC Ghana Ghana
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It ensures social progress and development through the application of law, justice, and good governance. It works towards the promotion and protection of the rights to health, education, democratic participation, personal liberty, and criminal and civil justice.

Citizen Action Network for Local Government Accountability and Performance (CANA) Philippines
Factor 3: Open Government

CANA aims to help ordinary citizens improve the quality and effectiveness of services provided by local government units (LGUs) across the Philippines.

Anti Corruption Front India
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Anti Corruption Front is a media and public coalition providing a powerful platform for common masses to register their complaints against corruption/ bribe, with the help of right minded and honest persons from society and also with the help of some honest officials of various departments and the media.

Kenya Environmental Education Network Kenya
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It works to create awareness and educate the general public about the environment and to stimulate critical thinking, discussion, and informed environmental decision making.

Corruption Watch South Africa
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Uses a texting hotline and social media to promote citzen corruption reporting and leads investigation on the cases reported.

Afghanistan Justice Organization Afghanistan
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

AJO provides capacity building and trainings, conducts research and analysis, publishes findings, and holds seminars and symposiums on major legal, economic and social issues.

Envirocare Tanzania
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Founded in 1993, it advocates for human rights, good governance and gender equality. One of their current projects is called "Tanzania Paralegal Remand Prisons and Retention Home Project," seeking to address the core problem of prison overcrowding. They also have projects in areas of the environment, biodiversity, and wealth creation.

Romanian Group for the Defense of Human Rights (GRADO) Romania
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to reform the criminal justice system in accordance with European standards, and providing legal assistance.

Equity Matters United States
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to build a coalition of citizens, organizations, business, government officials and faith leaders to advance the ideal of equity between people.

Democracy Sierra Leone (DSL) Sierra Leone
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

It is a coalition of approximately 40 civil society organizations that works towards the promotion of democratic values, the respect for human rights, public accountability, and the rule of law.

Think India Foundation India
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Think-India Foundation acts as a media-active think tank engaged in public policy advocacy. It propagates the principles of fiscal conservatism, regulated free markets and social liberalism.

Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa - CHRDA Cameroon/Sierra Leone/United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Originally the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in Cameroon, it was transformed into the CHRDA with regional offices in Sierra Leone and the United States. They promote the enforcement of human rights in Africa.

EcoKnights Malaysia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It provides environmental interventions to communities, government agencies, learning institutes, and private companies. Utilizing a collaborative perspective, it works across transdisciplinary fields and builds partnerships such as the Eco Film Festival.

Representative of Malaysia to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights - AICHR Malaysia Malaysia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Established in 2009, the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) is composed of representatives from all 10 member states and has a mandate to develop strategies for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms within ASEAN.

Rescue Alternatives Liberia Liberia
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to rescue victims and provide both psychosocial counseling and medical services to victims of tortures and other forms of threats and inhumane treatments.

Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network - PASAN Canada
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It is a community-based prisoner harm reduction organization that provides legal and economic support, education programs, and advocates for prisoners and ex-prisoners' rights in Canada. They also provide a unique forum for prisoners to share their experiences through their newsletter Cell Count.

Australian Crime Prevention Council Australia
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is a group of individuals and organizations from various branches of the criminal justice system that aims to aid in the prevention of crime by providing awareness and a forum for the free discussion of such issues.

Australian Human Rights Commission Australia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to enhance and protect awareness of human rights. It also aims to maintain accountability within the government to uphold these rights.