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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Mhair Educational and Human Rights Organization (MEHRO) Afghanistan
Factor 3: Open Government

MEHRO provides public awareness of human rights, women rights, gender, conflict resolution and anti- corruption through engaging local communities in awareness rising sessions mostly targeting youth and women.

Prison Fellowship Romania Romania
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to reintegrate ex prisoners into Romanian society and to assist vulnerable persons in prison.

It Gets Better Project United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to create platforms and education for LGBTQ youths to defend their rights and show them that it gets better through stories and testimonies from people who have overcome discrimination.

Open Democracy Advice Centre South Africa
Factor 3: Open Government

Works to provide access to information to citizens through digital platforms.

Georgian Center for Psychosocial and Medical Rehabilitation of Torture Victims Georgia
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to help people victims of torture, and has been involved in reform of the 8. Criminal Justice system through psychosocial and medical aid to prisoners.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice United States
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Educates and researches all topics of criminal justice to create individuals that will uphold and transform the criminal justice system for the better.

OUT South Africa
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

21 years working to defend the rights of the LGBTI community and advocating for social change on the issues surrounding the community.

The High Institute of the Judiciary Morocco
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Provides training of law clerks through seminars and practical training courses as well as continuing and specialized training of magistrates.

The Gambia Center for Victims of Human Rights Violations The Gambia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is an initiative launched in 2017 by a group of victims, survivors, and activists, that advocate for truth, justice, and reconciliation for those whose rights were violated by the former regime of Yahya Jammeh.

Kenya Association of Manufacturers - KAM Kenya
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Founded in 1959, it provides co-operation, dialogue and understanding with the Government by representing the views and concerns of its members. It promotes trade and investment, upholds standards, encourages the formulation, enactment, and administration of policies for a competitive and sustainable local manufacturing sector.

Business Foundation for Social Action (FUNDEMAS) El Salvador
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 5: Order and Security

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.

Navsarjan India
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Navsarjan is a grassroots organization in the Indian state of Gujarat dedicated to ensure human rights for all. It's core mission is to eliminate discrimination based on untouchability practices and ensure prevalence of the rule of law.

Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) Pakistan
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) is an independent quasi-regulatory, quasi-judicial body that helps ensure healthy competition between companies for the benefit of the economy.

Philippine Migrants Rights Watch (PMRW) Philippines
Factor 7: Civil Justice

The Philippine Migrants Rights Watch (PMRW) is a registered civil society network that was established in 1995 to encourage the recognition, protection and fulfillment of Filipino migrants' rights - both in the Philippines and abroad during the entire migration proces.

Tanzania Private Sector Foundation Tanzania
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

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.

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) International
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

An intergovernmental organization that supports sustainable democracy worldwide.

Arab Countries Water Utilities Association Jordan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Partners with water supply and wastewater utilities to build their capapcities, institute best practices, and ensure transparent, ethical, legal, and efficient management of utilities processes.

National Information Commission (NIC) Nepal
Factor 3: Open Government

An independent body constituted pursuant to the Right to Information Act, 2008. NIC is mainly responsible for the implementation of the RTI Act in Nepal. Protection, promotion and enforcement is the core areas of NIC work.

Center For Human Rights Education Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) Malawi
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Through its Paralegal Advisory Service, the CHREAA works to defend detainees and provide legal assistance to those who cannot afford it. It has now developed legal literacy and assistance services and influences public policy on access to justice.

Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security (MIPS) Myanmar
Factor 5: Order and Security

It is an independent research-based policy “think-and-do-tank” that supports the peace process and security transition and works closely with different stakeholders. MIPS has developed the Township-based Conflict Monitoring System, which has collected data since 2012.

Anti-Corruption Front Sri Lanka
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

ACF is an independent organisation founded in 2015 aimed at disclosing financial irregularities, cases of bribery, and corruption within government; it launched the 'A Corruption Free Country by 2020' campaign and gathered complaints from citizens on corruption within government.

Thai Civic Education Thailand
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It supports a sustainable civic education reform process that enables the system of civic education to fully perform its function in bringing about a democratic culture and empowering citizens to participate in the democratic process. Their goal is to build a broad coalition that unites governmental and non-governmental agencies around a common platform for dialogue and a more progressive paradigm of civic education.

National Forum of People Living with HIV/AIDS Networks in Uganda (NAFOPHANU) Uganda
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Aims to give those with HIV/AIDs a productive life in a sustainable way by providing services, peer support, and advocacy

The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction Zambia
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Implements and stregthens the National Development Plans with the specific goal of reducing poverty and ensuring the meaningful participation of civil society organisations in reaching these goals

Canadian Prison Consulting Canada
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is a private consulting firm that provides legal assistance and mentoring programs for inmates in federal penitentiaries. Their activities also include rehabilitation and crime prevention.