Leading Organizations

The JUSTICE program combats court ineffectiveness and ABA ROLI, in close collaboration with local partners, such as the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, the Office of Government Corporate Counsel and the Intellectual Property Office, is implementing targeted interventions to make the Philippine justice system more responsive, reliable and efficient.

ALG works to improve participatory and democratic land use, justice reform through the empowerment of the marginalized groups, legal education, policy advocacy, strengthening alternative dispute resolute mechanisms, ensuring transparency and accountability of the judiciary, and institutional capacity.

Works to defend human rights through strategic litigation, research, adovacy and legal reform.

BALAOD Mindanaw works with marginalized sectors and communities in Mindanaw through alternative lawyering and paralegalism, stressing active non-violence as an integral part thereof in the advancement of justice, gender equality, and resource tenure improvement in the context of active people's participation in Governance.

Balay Rehabilitation Center, Inc. is a non-governmental organization committed to human rights, peace building, and the protection of civilians affected by armed conflict and socio-natural disaster. It supports victims of torture and internal displacement in seeking redress, justice, and rehabilitation. .

Founded in 2005 as a partner organization of the worldwide BORDA network, Basic Needs Services is a non-government organization, conducting projects that promote poverty reduction, conservation of natural resources, and environmental protection.

The Correctional System in the Philippines seeks to protect the public and prevent crimes in partnership with stakeholders by providing persons under custody opportunities for reformation, decent environment and secure settings.

Works to provide rehabiliation programmes and mechanisms for offenders, and inform the public on the workings of the prison system.

NASSA was created by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) in 1966 as a response to the call of the Universal Church for renewal and social transformation through social justice.

Works to influence public policy through consultation and monitoring and to develop the capacities of its member organizations.

The CLCD is a resource center on leadership, citizenship and civil society, and democracy that uses its knowledge, expertise, skills, and resources to assist leaders, citizens, and civil society organizations enhance their capacities in performing their roles, duties and responsibilities.

Centerlaw actively participates in prosecuting the perpetrators of killings of journalists sued for criminal defamation. Where domestic courts prove ineffectual, Centerlaw also avails of existing international remedies for the promotion of human rights, humanitarian law, and freedom of expression.

Children's Legal Rights and Development Center, Inc. is a non-profit legal resource human rights organization for children committed to advancing children's rights and welfare through the provision of its services based on human rights developmental framework approach and methodologies.

CANA aims to help ordinary citizens improve the quality and effectiveness of services provided by local government units (LGUs) across the Philippines.

CAC is an alliance of the academia, business sector, civil society organizations, and Church that fights corruption. Launched on 21 September 2004, its mission is to implement and support counter-corruption projects in the area of procurement reforms and delivery of essential public services.

The National Human Rights Institution of the Philippines was created to advocate for a human rights approach to legislative, administrative and judicial policies, programs and measures.

CCAGG is a local based organization that works in the rural, remote, mountainous province of Abra. It was established in 1987 as an outgrowth of a wider democratization movement in the Philippines. CCAGG works to contribute to increasing the technical capacity of other organizations, promote good governance, and fight corruption.

CPA is an independent federation of progressive  peoples organizations, most of them grassroots-based organizations among indigenous communities in the Cordillera Region, Philippines. CPA is committed to the promotion and defense of indigenous peoples’ rights, human rights, social justice, and national freedom and democracy.

The Department is responsible for promoting peace and order, ensuring public safety, strengtheningg capability of local government units through active people participation and a professionalized corps of civil servants.

Under Executive Order (EO) 292, the DOJ is the government's principal law agency. As such, the DOJ serves as the government's prosecution arm and administers the government's criminal justice system by investigating crimes, prosecuting offenders and overseeing the correctional system.

Faith-based Congress Against Immoral Debts (FCAID) is a network of faith-based groups working toward the understanding of the debt issue and action against the immoralities of debt. This network is guided by a Coordinating Committee with members from various faith-based organizations.

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

IBON Foundation is a research-education-information and advocacy organization  committed to serve the marginalized sectors. They seek to contribute to people's empowerment by generating and collecting socio-economic data and analyses, and disseminate these in the Philippines and abroad.

Integrity Initiative is a multisectoral campaign towards the re-establishment of acceptable integrity standards among various sectors of society, business, government, judiciary, academia, youth, civil society, church and media.

Aims to develop cross sectional approaches to governance and civil society development to foster a society capable of managing democracy and transitional processes.