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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Women's Situation Room Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is a peace building initiative to prevent and mitigate conflicts during elections. It mobilizes women and youth to ensure their active participation in the electoral process. Through observation and the analysis of data and information from the field, it provides early alerts to elections related incidents.

The Network against Gender Based Violence - NGBV The Gambia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a network of various organizations and institutions in the public and non-state sectors that are working to address gender based violence. It seeks to promote closer strategic partnerships for joint programming, implementation, and resource mobilization.

Independent Monitoring Group of El Salvador (GMIES) El Salvador
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to monitor working conditions in various industries in the country and to develop a Center for Labour Rights, to educate and provide legal assistance to workers about their rights.

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Pakistan
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

The National Accountability Bureau is Pakistan's apex anti-corruption organization. It is charged with the responsibility of elimination of corruption through a holistic approach of awareness, prevention and enforcement.

Advocacy Forum (AF) Nepal
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

AF is working to promote the rule of law and upholds international human rights standards in Nepal. The core area of AF's work includes human rights advocacy. AF is actively confronting the deeply entrenched culture of impunity in Nepal.

Center on International Cooperation United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

The Center seeks to develop actionable research in the fields of politics, security, justice and development in order to enhance international responses in countries, especially those affected by conflict.

The Africa Centre for Open Governance - AfriCOG Kenya
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is an independent organization that provides research and monitoring on governance and public ethics issues, in both the public and private sectors addressing the structural causes of lacks in governance.

Techno Brain - Malawi Malawi
Factor 5: Order and Security

Leading IT firm in Africa, developed a Criminal Tracking system alongside the Malawi Police Force in order to coordinate investigation programs and modernise systems across all offices.

Liberty Asia Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT) Nepal
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

The Centre for Victims of Torture's efforts have centered on the rehabilitation of torture victims as well as the prevention of torture. In addition, CVICT's activities include advocacy, legal aid, fact finding, community mediation, awareness programmes, campaigning and networking with line agencies, including national and international communities.

The Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in the Greater Mekong Subregion - DEPDC/GMS Thailand
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

DEPDC/GMS has been working for 25 years to protect children and youth from being trafficked into exploitative labor conditions. Its mission is to help the most at-risk children and their families and communities in order to decrease the conditions and factors that make them vulnerable to trafficking.

Organization of Promoting Afghan Women’s Capabilities (OPAWC) Afghanistan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

OPAWC works to improve women's literacy, practical wage earning skills and health in order to in order to promote their human rights.

Alliance for Community Action Zambia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

Empowers citizens to demand accountability with regards to public funds and encourages the media to fulfill its watchdog role

South African Business Coalition on Health and AIDS (SABCOHA) South Africa
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Coalition of businesses working to organize a response to HIV/AIDS and public health issues inside and outside the workplace.

Economic and Social Research Foundation Tanzania
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

It works in advancing knowledge to public and private sector entities through sound policy research findings, capacity development, and by advocating good development management practices. They implemented the initiative Tanzania Online, an online corruption forum.

People's Watch India
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

People's Watch is a Program Unit of the Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns. It's mission is to protect human rights through monitoring human rights violations, intervention and building solidarity with peoples’ struggle for human rights.

Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) Liberia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to involve citizens in the allocation and operation of resource exploitation, through control of industries and governance, and to provide a framework for sustainable resource exploitation in Liberia.

Sarvodaya Women's Movement Sri Lanka
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

SWM is an independent organisation set up to empower women by educating them on their legal rights, and assisting them in developing the holistic knowledge and skills necessary to encourage greater self-reliance and responsibility.

Uganda Women's Network Uganda
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Creates a network for members to more successfully lobby and advocate for a society free of gender-based discrimination

National Centre for Dispute Resolution (NCDR) Pakistan
Factor 7: Civil Justice

NCDR follows international standards rules and code of ethics governing mediation proceedings and is Pakistan's first and only mediation centre. It undertakes disputes of various nature including family disputes, landlord and tenant disputes, contractual disputes, labour disputes etc.

The AIM Policy Center Philippines
Factor 3: Open Government

The AIM Policy Center produces research and hosts discussions about public policy to support the growth of the Philippines and the Asian region.

The Institute of Economic Affairs Ghana - IEA Ghana
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

Founded in 1989, it is a public policy institute that promotes good governance, democracy, and a free and fair market economy. It aims to create an environment in which economic, social, political, and legal institutions function openly and freely.

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.

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.

Singapore Green Building Council Singapore
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Sets the standards for sustainability and environmentally conscious planning, and enjoys significant overreach on public private partnerships.