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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Commit2Change (C2C) India
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Commit2Change's mission is to create systemic and cultural change by educating abandoned and impoverished girls. It works with carefully selected local partners who rescue and rehabilitate at-risk girls and invest in initiatives to give them a chance.

Youth Net and Counselling (YONECO) Malawi
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to promote the rights of women and children, along with giving access to health and rights for HIV/AIDS infected persons. It also works to educate these people on their access to rights and promote their involvement in public life.

Tanzania Journalists for Conservation - TJC Tanzania
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is a movement aimed at improving media coverage of conservation efforts in the country. Their major objective is to guarantee conservation coverage in the media. Their other roles are to advocate to the society on protecting the environment and wildlife, and strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations to address the issues that cause wildlife and environmental destruction.

Tanzania Media Foundation - TMF Tanzania
Factor 3: Open Government

It works towards obtaining an independent, quality, and diverse media in Tanzania by promoting investigative and public interest journalism and facilitating critical reflection and learning. Through their funding and learning activities, they seek to support quality journalism that informs the public, contributes to debates, and thus increases public demand for greater accountability.

Jagaran Nepal Nepal
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Jagaran Nepal is committed for women rights, peace and governance and believes in empowering women and marginalized communities for their increased participation in decision making process, sustainable peace and governance.

Equal Access Afghanistan Program Afghanistan
Factor 3: Open Government

Equal Access Afghanistan uses a range of tools to achieve social change, such as community mobilization training, radio dramas, mobile live theater, round table discussions, media training, TV documentaries, TV dramas and remote learning through radio.

INDEM (Information Science for Democracy) Foundation, Altus Global Alliance Member International
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

NGO promoting the ideals and values of democracy through assistance in development of civil society and consultancy to Russian public officials and government bodies.

Safety and Rights Society Bangladesh
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

2019 World Justice Challenge Applicant - Project Title: Workplace Safety Compensation and Accountability
Works to ensure that labor laws and workplace safety regulations are enforced to ensure the security of workers and provides legal support to victims and victims families to seek compensation in the case of injury or death.

Amass Ghana Centre for Conflict Resolution and Peace Building Ghana
Factor 5: Order and Security

It aims to empower the Ghanaian citizenry to achieve democracy, education, and economic freedom by transforming conflict and violence for the advancement of peace and sustainable development. It advocates for peaceful elections, while also, providing health services for women in deprived or violent communities, and food security programs.

Agency for Integrated Rural Development (AFIRD) Uganda
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Helps rural areas develop economically through youth empowerment, agricultural advocacy, and institutional development

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Public Corruption Unit United States
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Works to investigate cases of fraud in federal, state and local government, government procurement, border control, environmental projects and elections.

The Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights) Philippines
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

PhilRights is the research and information arm of the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates .

Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Singapore
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 9: Informal Justice

Produces reports and tries to find innovative ways of encouraging civic participation, integration and goverment monitoring through citizen initiatives.

Black Alliance for Just Immigration United States
Factor 3: Open Government

Works to create a national network of black advocates for social justice, through training, education, advocacy and research (The State of Black Immigrants Research Institute).

Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) Nigeria
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

It aims to transform the public sector in Africa, confronting inefficiency, excessive bureaucracy, and corruption. It also promotes the engagement between the government, academic institutions, and the private sector.

Legal Practice Center of Nueva San Salvador University El Salvador
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to offer pro bono legal assistance to vulnerable persons and to assist in any administrative procedures with the help of law students

Arab Centre for the Rule of Law and Integrity (ACRLI) International
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

A regional, non-governmental and not-for-profit organization geared towards enhancing the rule of law and promoting good governance in the MENA region.

Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines -CHRP Philippines
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

The National Human Rights Institution of the Philippines was created to advocate for a human rights approach to legislative, administrative and judicial policies, programs and measures.

The Society for Radio Democracy FM 98.1 Sierra Leone
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

It is an independent news media corporation, founded in 1997, that promotes human rights, transparency in government, and encourages access to information. Its members include civil society groups, labor unions, local NGO's, and non-profit organizations.

Kenya Law Resource Center Kenya
Factor 3: Open Government

Their aim is to make the law accessible to everyone and to help Kenyans find answers to their everyday legal and business questions.

Zambia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Zambia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Aims to promote transparency and accountability with regards to the revenue gained by the government from natural resources and to encourage policies that benefit all citiznes

Public Protector South Africa
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Works to monitor government policy and practices, and is fighting corruption in state and parliament.

Global Peace Foundation Tanzania Tanzania
Factor 5: Order and Security

It is the Tanzanian chapter of Global Peace Foundation International, which promotes an innovative, values-based approach to peace building initiatives. Engaging and organizing a global network of public and private sector partners who develop community, national, and regional peace building models.

Prisoners Assistance Nepal (PA Nepal) Nepal
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

2019 World Justice Challenge Applicant - Project Title: Rescue, Rehabilitation, and Social Reintegration to the Women and Parental Incarcerated Children in Nepal
Prisoners Assistance Nepal is a grass roots organization whose mission is to rid prisons of unnecessary suffering and hardship, in particular the suffering experienced by innocent children and prisoners who are poor and disadvantaged.

Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) Afghanistan
Factor 7: Civil Justice

SCA supports women and people disabilities to strengthen their position in society and give them influence in decision-making in their rural villages.