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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Center for Legal Resources (CRJ) Romania
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to defend the rights of vulnerable people, but also guarantee the rights of all people and the rule of law under recent security measures, through advocacy and strategic litigation.

Center for Legal, Justice, and Societal Studies – Dejusticia Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad - Dejusticia Colombia

Participates in debates about law, institutions, and public policy. It is based on research and activism to promote social inclusion, democracy, and human rights in Colombia, Latin America, and the Global South.

Center For Media In Educating Community Trung tâm Truy?n thông Giáo d?c C?ng ??ng (MEC) Vietnam
Factor 3: Open Government

Researching and implementing topics, programs and projects in communications and community education.

Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding Liberia
Factor 3: Open Government

Works to develop a multi stakeholder approach in organizing access to information in Liberia on a variety of projects, along with its traditional role in defending freedom of the press.

Center for Policy Research India
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Center for Policy Research is dedicated to conducting research that contributes to a more robust public discourse about the structures and processes that shape life in India. It's principal areas of research are economic policy, environmental law and governance, international relations and security, law, regulation and the state, and urbanization.

Center for Public Monitoring and Research ????? ???????????? ??????????? ?? ?????????? Ukraine
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

The Center aims to investigate and expose cases of corruption in every sector of Ukrainian society through expert analysis and citizen action.

Center for Public Policy and Human Rights - Equidad Centro de Políticas Públicas y Derechos Humanos - Equidad Peru
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Equidad works to defend human rights and seek compensation for violation of those rights for citizens. Through strategic litigation, it has worked with indigenous populations to challenge land rights and persecution, and with disabled persons facing discrimination, along with regular citizens who have had their rights affected.

Center for Reproductive Rights United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to defend the reprodutive rights of women and to maintain existing abortion laws and to extend the right to abortion around the country.

Center for Research and Promotion of Peasantry Centro de Investigación y Promoción del Campesinado - CIPCA Bolivia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

CIPCA contributes to strengthening political, economical, and organizational capacities of grassroots, peasant, and indigenous communities as a means to achieve a democratic, autonomous, diverse, equitable, and sustainable Bolivian society.

Center for Social and Labor Rights (CSTP) ????? ?????????-???????? ???? Russia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to promote and defend rights in social and labor relations through legal assistance, stregnthening of trade unions and advocacy.

Center for Social Initiatives Promotion Trung tâm H? tr? Sáng ki?n Ph?c v? C?ng ??ng - CSIP Vietnam
Factor 3: Open Government

Works to provide and promote a succesful working environment for social entreprises through partnerships with government, institutions and businesses.

Center for Social Justice - CSJ Nigeria
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

The organization works to strengthen the relationship between public decision making and social justice. Their main areas of work include transparency and participation in public finance management, poverty reduction, and rights enhancement.

Center for Strategic Studies ???? ???????? ???????????? Jordan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

Produces research and policy recommendations, conducts opinion polls and collect survey data, as well as convenes symposia on issues related to democracy, political pluralism, development, and the environment.

Center for Studies and Applied Sciences in Gender, Family, Women and Adolescents (CSAGA) Trung tâm Nghiên c?u & ?ng d?ng khoa h?c v? Gi?i - Gia ?ình - Ph? n? và V? thành niên (CSAGA) Vietnam
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

A non-profit, non-governmental organization, CSAGA's activities focus on women and children. Activities include psychological counseling, training, communications and hands-on projects.

Center for Studies and Social Promotion (CEPS) Centro de Estudios y Promoción Social (CEPS) Nicaragua
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

CEPS works on a variety of health related issues, such as gender based violence, water and sanitation, along with enablign citizens through participation, local governance and education.

Center for Teaching the Rule of Law United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

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.

Center for the Promotion of Reforms ????? ???????? ???????? Ukraine
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

The Center seeks to promote reforms on state supervision, deregulation for businesses, technical and economic regulation.

Center for the Promotion of Women Gregoria Apaza El Centro de Promoción de la Mujer Gregoria Apaza Bolivia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Founded in 1983, and named after the indigenous Aymara leader, the Center works to protect women's rights and provides access to justice through legal and psychological assistance. It also offers workshops and training for economic empowerment, and encourages women's political participation by supporting local initiatives and grassroots organizations.

Center For Trade Union and Workers' Services (CTUWS) ??? ??????? ???????? ????????? Egypt
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

A labor union committed to defending workers' rights and providing with services.

Center for Training and Service for Women Centro de Capacitación y Servicio para la Mujer - CECASEM Bolivia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

The Center has vast experience working in rural development and in combating human trafficking and exploitation in Bolivia. It generates opportunities for the participation of women in the public and private spheres, and strives to achieve social and economical equity.

Center for Universal Drug Researches, Approaches & Studies (CUDRAS) ???? ???????? ?????? ?? ? ??????? ??? ?????? ???? ???? Iran
Factor 5: Order and Security

Promots global discourses to develop the most efficient solutions to reduce the harm of illicit drugs among various societies of the world.

Center for Youth and Development (CYD) Malawi
Factor 3: Open Government

Grassroots organization seeking to empower rural communities through education and environmental projects from a bottom up perspective.

Center of Justice and Participation Studies Centro de Estudios sobre Justicia y Participación Bolivia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Founded in 1999, the Center contributes to strengthening the rule of law in Bolivia through the promotion of justice democratization and judicial system transformation, the encouragement of a culture of peace, and the prevention of violence and insecurity.

Center of Policy and Legal Reform (CPLR) ????? ????????-???????? ?????? Ukraine
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 7: Civil Justice

The Centre is a consortium of experts and legal professionals proposing research, analysis and programs in administrative, criminal and civil justice to push for legal and judicial reform, safeguard democracy and uphold the rule of law in Ukraine.

Center of Studies for Labor and Agrarian Development Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Laboral y Agrario - CEDLA Bolivia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

CEDLA works to strengthen political actions of urban and rural workers by producing knowledge and critical thought that contribute to the transformation of the conditions of oppression that subjugate them. Areas of work include labor rights, extractive industries, indigenous rights, and fiscal policy.