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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Gender Based Violence Prevention Network Uganda
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

A network of over 500 members working to create solidarity in fighting against violence against women and creating awareness

The Children and Community Initiative for Development - CAID The Gambia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

The Children and Community Initiative for Development (CAID), is an research organization striving towards child and community development in The Gambia.

The Foundation for Research on Women's Health, Productivity and the Environment - BAFROW The Gambia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Founded in 1990, it offers social services and preventive care to all individuals in four of the five regions in The Gambia. Their areas of work include sexual and reproductive health, culture and tradition, gender equality, social development and consultative processes, and participation and decision making processes.

Association of Participatory Radio Broadcasting of El Salvador (ARPAS) El Salvador
Factor 3: Open Government

Coordinates and runs the activites of various national and local radios for freedom of expression and incidence in public policy.

The Ethiopian Economics Association - EEA Ethiopia
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Founded in 1991, EEA specializes in the analysis of the Ethiopian economy, through training, public dialogue, and research. In 2000, the Association established the Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute (EEPRI) as a subsidiary, which is organized in four areas: macro economy, trade and industry, poverty, and human resources.

National Alliance for Human Rights and Social Justice-Nepal Nepal
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

National Alliance for Human Rights and Social Justice Nepal (Human Rights Alliance), a Coalition of Nepali non- governmental human rights organizations dedicated to a cause of freedom, human rights, social justice, and peace in Nepal was established in 1996 in the initiation of some leading human rights NGOs.

Free and Fair Elections Forum of Afghanistan (FEFA) Afghanistan
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

FEFA is a national, independent and impartial institution working through partnerships, citizen participation, good governance and professional programs to enhance transparency and accountability in the democratic processes.

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.

Patani Forum Thailand
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

Patani Forum works with a new generation of local leaders and activists in the Malay-speaking area in southern Thailand to raise issues deemed important to the people in the area, through advocacy, civic participation, and in-depth analysis of the dynamics of the region and of the ongoing conflict.

People's Action Forum Zambia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to creat people-centered policies and creates rural community based programs to enhance the voices of rural citizens

Women's Law Project United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to defend womens rights, through research and lobbying at the federal and state level for expansion and conservation of womens' rights.

Federalist Society United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Conservative group working for the division of powers and the respect of freedom along with improved federalism.

Expert Forum (EFOR) Romania
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Works to ensure transparency and accountability of government, implementation of the rule of law, and activism.

Desiree Alliance United States
Factor 5: Order and Security

A coalition of sex workers, health professionals, social scientists, professional sex educators working to build local and regional leadership and constructive activism in the sex worker population to advocate for sex workers’ human, labor and civil rights.

The Akanksha Foundation India
Factor 3: Open Government

The Akanksha Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide children from low-income communities with a high-quality education, enabling them to maximize their potential and transform their lives.

Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL) Liberia
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Work to defend and promote the rights of women inside and outside the traditional fear, such as fighting for inheritance rights in order for women to become fully independent.

Africa Mental Health Foundation - AMHF Kenya
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is an organization dedicated to research in mental and neurological health and substance use. Its aim is to generate evidence for policies and best practices in the provision of affordable, appropriate, available, and accessible mental health services.

Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) India
Factor 7: Civil Justice

The Centre for Social Justice uses the law for social change to ensure access to justice to vulnerable communities and to secure social justice, equity and equality, and fraternity.

Egypt Justice Project Egypt
Factor 3: Open Government

The Egypt Justice Project has two objectives. The first is to engage in an ongoing project of serious study of the Egyptian judiciary and its jurisprudence, with all its rich history and currents and crosscurrents. The second is to educate to help close the gap between popular perception and reality regarding the Egyptian judiciary, and to open up English language access to the Egyptian judiciary's jurisprudence.

The Mekong Club Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Established in 2012, the Mekong Club uses a business-to-business approach to fight modern slavery. It is a membership-based organization that works with companies that want to take active steps to identify potential risk and eradicate modern slavery from their businesses.

Christian Social Service Commission - CSSC Tanzania
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Founded in 1992, it supports the delivery of social services by church institutions in Tanzania through collaboration and partnership, advocacy, lobbying, capacity building, and selected interventions.

Centre for Accountability and the Rule of Law - CARL Sierra Leone
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

It promotes a just society through the monitoring and accountability of institutions, outreach and advocacy for institutional transparency, capacity building, and empowerment the citizenry.

Women in Need Sri Lanka
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

WiN aim to combat violence, especially gendered violence, in order to promote a conflict-free society in which the law protects women and they may access justice equally and fairy.

Centre for Independent Journalism Malaysia
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It advocates for the rights to freedom of expression and access to information, and defends the interests of media members in Malaysia.