Leading Organizations

Interfaith Agency set up in 1992 that works to monitor government spending and lobbying for influence in public policy and decisionmaking.

It is an initiative to strengthen the use of social accountability tools, approaches, and mechanisms by citizens, civil society organizations, local government officials, and service providers. It is financed through a World Bank multi-donor trust fund.

Founded in 1999, it is an independent media resource center working to guarantee freedom of expression, opinion and thought, and of the press. They also seek the accountability of the media through the monitoring and promotion of governance and democratic values.

Produces independent research and programs for sustainability and on climate change, while lobbying for legislation on environmental issues.

Containts 17 civil society organizations that empower citizens to demand transparency and a government free from corruption

Peoples Union for Civil Liberties envisions itself as an organization free from political and economic ideologies. PUCL defends human rights by mobilizing public opinion, conducting investigations, publishing findings, and filing petitions.

Works to protect the rights and interests of workers and their families and monitor the states labour law and regulations implementation.

Government Commission carrying out investigations of corruption and promoting transparency, working with NGOs, citizens and business to break the cycle of corruption and impunity.

Works to support and create a network of youth justice advocates and organizations to reform the justice system for better attention to youth and their families.

The Foundation seeks to promote good governance, anticorruption, quality public service delivery, right to information, consumer rights, and social accountability by creating an informed citizenship, and by making the state and its governance process accountable, transparent, and participatory.

Nationwide network of legal practitioners working to monitor elections to ensure that they are free and fair.

Sensi works to create a space for technology and entrepreneurship to generate employment and innovative solutions. Through incubation programs and training, they seek to contribute to the development of a technologically innovative community in the country.

Founded in Kuala Lumpur in 2009, their aim is to promote equality and justice in Muslim families. It uses a holistic framework that integrates Islamic teachings, universal human rights, national constitutional guarantees of equality, and the lived experiences of women and men.

Works to raise awareness on a variety of issues from democracy to security, to the environment and social and political participation, through research, training and participation.

It has established a network of bloggers, social media influencers, activists, hackers, software developers, and lawyers, dedicated to protecting the freedom of expression and online access to information by Kenyans. Their programs iFreedoms, Jukumu Letu, and Kenya Monitor, document important occurrences and transmit them to the public.

It is a bar association with membership of over thirteen thousand practicing advocates. It advises and assists members of the legal profession, the government, and the larger public in all matters relating to the administration of justice in Kenya.

It is a Swedish based charity that was established in The Gambia in the early 1980's, focused on promoting education and increasing the capacity of people in rural communities to combat grinding poverty.

Works to eradicate violence against women, for equality, through training, research and legal assistance . Through its Observatory, it also monitors public policy on gender issues

The Business Anti-Corruption Portal (BACP) is a one-stop shop for business anti-corruption information offering tools on how to mitigate risks and costs of corruption when doing business abroad.

Works to develop local initiatives for sustainability and development, and has partenered with UNDEF to Young Leaders project, to foster young leadership around conflict resolution and citizen participation in the democratic process.

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.

ASCHIANA is an Afghan NGO that works to improve children's rights by providing services and support to street working children and their families.

Works to prevent violence and redress human rights issues and violence in at risk communities within Jamaica in order to promote safe and functioning communities.

It promotes private sector-led social and economic development in Tanzania, as well as, effective engagement with the government of Tanzania and other stakeholders in matters of development policy and in the provision of services to its members.

Works to promote democracy, through accountability mechanisms and the organization of dialogue between society and political actors.