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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Association of Women Business Ethiopia - AWiB Ethiopia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is a networking platform for mid-level career women and business owners to address current issues, raise awareness on pertinent topics, disseminate knowledge, and point out new trends in the business and investment world.

Human Development Innovation Fund Tanzania
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It aims to identify and support innovations that have the potential to create social impact in education, health, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) across Tanzania with a focus on market driven solutions.

Socio Economic Rights Institute South Africa
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to advance the socio economic rights of people and functions as an umbrella for associations and a guarantor of freedom of assembly and expression.

Freeland Thailand
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Freeland is dedicated to making the world free of wildlife trafficking and human slavery. Head-quartered in Bangkok, they work throughout Asia and beyond. Freeland's programs include support for law enforcement agencies through training and tip-offs, support to vulnerable communities with the introduction of alternative livelihoods, and public education through mass media campaigns and grassroots outreach.

Zambia Civic Education Association (ZCEA) Zambia
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Aims to increase citizen awareness of their rights and responsibilites to promote good governance and strengthened democracy

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) The Gambia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a pan-African organization headquartered in Banjul. It was founded in 1989 by an Act of the Parliament of the Republic of The Gambia, becoming an independent NGO in 1995. Its mission is the promotion and protection of human rights and democracy in Africa.

Nigerian Association of Women in Agriculture - NAWIA Nigeria
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Founded in 1999, It works to reduce poverty and empower rural women to take valid decisions on their own.

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Pakistan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Besides monitoring human rights violations and seeking redress through public campaigns, lobbying and intervention in courts, HRCP organizes seminars, workshops and fact finding missions.

SALIGAN  Philippines
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Founded in 1987, SALIGAN is a legal resource non-governmental organization doing developmental legal work with women, farmers, workers, the urban poor, the indigenous peoples and local communities.  It has more than one hundred (100) partner-organizations all over the country.

Public Affairs Centre (PAC) India
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Public Affairs Centre (PAC) was established with a mandate to improve the quality of governance in India. The Centre is globally known for its pioneering Citizen Report Cards, benchmarking studies used to improve public services, as well as their work on electoral transparency, public works quality monitoring tools and approaches.

Third World Network Africa Ghana
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

The regional secretariat of the African chapter of the international research and advocacy organization is located in Ghana. Its work is focused on strategic development issues such as regional economic integration, gender and economic policy, and mining and development. In Ghana, it is a founding member of the National Coalition on Mining (NCOM).

Independent Information Commission Liberia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

Government Body tasked with monitoring government compliance with human rights, and in particular with delivering effective access to information for citizens.

Center for European Neighborhood Studies Hungary
Factor 3: Open Government

It is an independent research center of the Central European University (CEU). It contributes to an informed international dialogue about the future of the European Union. The center focuses geographically on Central and Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Turkey, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Russia.

Women in Law Japan Japan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a networking platform for women in the legal profession in Japan. It fosters activities to address current issues related with women and law, such as human trafficking and modern slavery in Japan. It also provides legal assistance for refugee applications.

Network Movement for Democracy and Human Rights Sierra Leone
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Founded in 2002, it is a coalition of 28 community based organizations, that promotes human rights in the four regions of the country through policy advocacy and campaigns. Their initiatives are focused on monitoring an effective healthcare delivery service to rural communities.

Nepal Disabled Human Rights Center (DHRC) Nepal
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

DHRC was established in 2000 by a group of young people from different areas realizing the real situation of disables persons in Nepal, committing to defending and raising awareness about their rights.

EQUALITY for Peace and Democracy (EPD) Afghanistan
Factor 3: Open Government

EPD's mission is to empower and strengthen women and youth at the community and policy levels to build coalitions and networks and promote human rights, peace and good governance.

General Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

The Prosecutor's Office works to uncover, litigate and bring into the public eye cases of corruption, independently of state institutions which it may also investigate. It also plays a crucial role in educating the public about corruption and how eliminate it

White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable United States
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Brings together 22 federal agencies in order to coordinate their work and engagement with civil society, to provide better access to justice to the poor and vulnerable in the United States.

Cato Institute United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Works towards the ideal of limited government and free markets, informing public policy and debate in that direction and improving individual freedom.

International Human Rights Law Clinic - American University United States
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to allow student attorneys to represent individual, families or organizations suffering violation of their human rights.

The Business Integrity Alliance - BIA Malaysia
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

It is a collective action organization that combats corruption affecting the business sector by connecting companies, chambers of commerce, and industry groups with the government. It also maps corruption to identify where it is occurring within the business community.

Law and Society Trust Sri Lanka
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 5: Order and Security

LST works to protect human rights, enhance public accountability, and strengthen rule of law. They aim to further democracy and strengthen political institutions, as well as promote equal access and uphold good governance.

Teso Anti-Corruption Coalition (TAC) Uganda
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

A group of civil society organizations and individuals which seeks to promote public transparency and accountability

Association of Media Women in Kenya - AMWIK Kenya
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It seeks to inform and promote a resourceful society for the enhancement of the status of women in Kenya. It organizes and facilitates community radio listening groups and journalist trainings.