Leading Organizations

It works to optimize delivery and use of health interventions to communities, through evidence-informed solutions, innovations, and research. It aims to address existing and emerging public health needs.

It works to conserve wildlife, and generate income through wildlife tourism and complementary enterprises for re-investment in conservation and community development. It seeks to support the people living around its borders, to ensure wildlife conservation translates into better education, healthcare, and infrastructure.

Its mission is to advocate for the respect of the human rights of girls and women and to enable them to live in freedom and with dignity.

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.

Works to promote public policies and research around democratic governance, transparency and citizen security and participation

Seeks to inform and educate citizens and government on privacy issues in federal and state documents and legal processes.

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.

It is a collective of nine Amharic language bloggers who work together to create an alternative and independent platform of ideas concerning the socio-political situation of Ethiopia.

Founded in 1959, it is dedicated to empowering women and girls in Tanzania and promoting a fully inclusive world where justice, peace and security, freedom, human dignity, good governance, health for all, and care for the environment are promoted and sustained through women's leadership.

Founded in 1993, it is a socio-environmental advocacy organization committed to enhancing active citizenship, social accountability, and promoting human rights in resource governance. It also facilitates capacity building, knowledge transfer, research, and networking.

IHR Sri Lanka are an independent non-profit that works to promote human rights by furthering access to justice. They primarily provide legal advice and administer legal services, especially pertaining to fundamental rights; they also provide education and training on human rights through training programs and workshops.

A network of civil society organisations and individuals seeking to promote democracy and government accountability through public education on constitutional matters

Focuses on issues of land and housing and healthcare and gives a political, social, and economic voice to those living in slums

Child Rights Movement is a network of civil society organizations and NGOs working to promote child rights through advocacy, monitoring of government acitivities, provision of recommendations, and raising awareness.

FPE was created by and for the Philippine NGOs and peoples' organizations. FPE envisions itself as a dynamic, relevant, proactive and growing organization enabling civil society and other stakeholders towards effective biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.

Works to promote the use of restorative justice in South Africa, in order to drive crime reduction and ensure a more compassionate justice system.

It is an initiative that promotes democratic principles, the rule of law, and respect for human rights in criminal law and the administration of criminal justice. Its mission is to improve the quality of justice through reforms of criminal law, policy, and practice.

Parivartan works for building organizations of deprived masses, supporting their struggles for sustainable socio-economic development through participation in planning and implementation of development process and influencing the policies for transparent, responsive and responsible governance.

Works to expand education about the rule of law by disseminating its principles and tenets in order to change the understanding of the rule of law and provide capacity for adults and, especially, young people to explore its usefulness as a foundation of society.

Conflict Victims’ Common Platform (CVCP) is an umbrella organization of victims of the conflict from across Nepal, from both sides of the conflict and represents all kinds of victims.

TLO has been active in two areas concerning rule of law: Conflict and Alternative Dispute Resolution and Peace building and Dialogue Facilitation to guarantee peaceful communities in Afghanistan.

Think tank working with business, political and civil society organizations in order to regulate and open up the space for the energy sector in Ukraine.

Works to guarantee the rights of all people, and to assist local governments in providing access to human rights along with protecting people who are victims of gender based violence.

It represents different sectors of Coastal Muslim communities in Kenya. Their work is focused on the following areas: peace and security development, social accountability, access to justice, and land and advocacy. They also promote the health rights of drug users, especially related to HIV infection.

The GEOC is an alliance of 10 different organizations including the Nepal Law Society (NLS). It has been involved in programs to support the institutionalization of democracy for the past 20 years. GEOC's members are independent intellectuals, legal luminaries, jurists, former government officials, social activists, human rights workers, professors, senior media persons and so on.