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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Dhaka Ahsania Mission Bangladesh
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to protect the rights of women and children suffering from violence and trafficking, through shelters and anti trafficking programs, along with securing environmental rights for affected populations through Disaster Risk Reduction strategies and litigation.

Sinar Project Malaysia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

It is a civic initiative that uses open technology and applications to produce information accessible for the public. It aims to improve governance and encourages greater citizen participation in public affairs by making the Parliament and the Malaysian Government more open, transparent, and accountable.

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.

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.

The CRADLE - The Children Foundation Kenya
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It promotes the rights of the child, enhancing access to justice, and through a legislative and policy framework that contributes towards the eradication of violence and exploitation. The Legal Aid Program is their core program and includes cases of children in conflict with the law, child protection, and family law matters.

The Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission of Ethiopia Ethiopia
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

It promotes transparency and accountability in public offices, enterprises, and organizations by offering ethics and anti-corruption education and by mobilizing the public against corruption and impropriety.

Open Society Foundations (OSF) International

Foundation working to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people.

Gaston Z. Ortigas Peace Institute (GZO) Philippines
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to train communities and practitioners in peaceful resolution of conflict and provide information on the conflict resolution process.

Kathmandu School of Law (KSL) Nepal
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

KSL is dedicated to maintain high standards of academic excellence. Its prime objective is to address the need of an academically sound and practically feasible legal education in Nepal.

Development and Support of Afghan Women and Children Organization (DSAWCO) Afghanistan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

DSAWCO works to raise legal awareness, provide job opportunities and educate women and children.

Rainfall Gender Study Organization Myanmar
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It was founded in 2011 by a group of feminist Burmese women who confront all forms of discrimination. It works to advance gender equality and women's rights through research, the publication of the Myanmar Feminist Magazine, and by establishing public dialogue with events and workshops throughout the country.

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

International Legal Foundation - Afghanistan (ILF-A) Afghanistan
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

International Legal Foundation (ILF) is a non-governmental organization that assists countries emerging from conflict or transition to establish public defender systems that provide effective, quality criminal defense services to the poor.

Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

The CEC monitors and sets the standards for elections in Kazakhstan along with providing information for voters, legislators and the international community, and enhancing international cooperation for a transparent electoral process in Kazakhstan

Data Science Singapore
Factor 3: Open Government

Aims to bring together explorers of data in order to create data and information access within Singapore.

Mises Institute United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Libertarian research Institute working on public policy and debate to inform society from the point of view of the Austrian economics movement.

Center for Constitutional Governance - CCG Nigeria
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It works to expand constitutional governance, pluralism, democracy and respect for human rights in Nigeria through education, advocacy, community mobilization, and counseling. The Center is active in the defense of journalists and press freedom rights.

United Community Association forWater and Agriculture (ACUA) El Salvador
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to fight for the rights of persons to water and prevention of natural disasters. They have been at the forefront of the fight for a water law during the current water shortage crisis

Fordham University School of Law United States
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Seeks to educate young lawyers for the advancement of the spirit of justice and the rule of law in practice for all people.

Democracy Development Programme (DDP) South Africa
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to transform South African democracy through increased participation, and the promotion of the Bill of Rights as the regulating instrument.

Benjamin William Mkapa Foundation Tanzania
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It aims to supplement and complement the development efforts of the Government. It was established with the aim of increasing HIV/AIDS services through addressing the shortage of skilled health professionals in rural underserved settings.

Media Foundation for West Africa - MFWA Ghana
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is the largest media organization in West Africa. It works with local partners to promote freedom of expression, media professionalism, media-led advocacy for peace building, and participatory governance across the region.

Legal Resources Foundation - Zambia Zambia
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Provides pro-bono legal aid and litigation to the public to enhance human rights

Anti-Corruption Force Organization Pakistan (ACFOP) Pakistan
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

ACFOP is raising awareness regarding corruption through seminars, and educates people on how to identify its factors, and what steps should be taken to eradicate it.