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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Kituo Cha Sheria - Legal Advice Center Kenya
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

2019 World Justice Challenge Applicant - Project Title: M-Haki-'Haki Mkononi'
Founded in 1973, It is the oldest legal aid and human rights organization in Kenya. It works to empower the poor and marginalized, and to enhance equity and access to justice for all.

National Audit Office Malawi
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Government agency tasked with fighting corruption in Malawi. The NAO was at the forefront of the revelations surrounding the Cashgate scandal.

The Network for Women's Rights in Ghana - NETRIGHT Ghana
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It is a group of organizations that advocates for an inclusive gender policy and the promotion of women's rights through the creation of spaces for debate, discussion, and coalescing within the women’s rights movement. Their gender and natural resources programs are aimed to protect women's livelihoods, land access, and ownership.

Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WISSA) South Africa
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Implements programs for environmental management, risk assessment and conservation all across South Africa.

Sinar Project Malaysia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

It is a civic initiative that uses open technology and applications to produce information accessible for the public. It aims to improve governance and encourages greater citizen participation in public affairs by making the Parliament and the Malaysian Government more open, transparent, and accountable.

The Election Commission (EC) Nepal
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

The Commission supervises and sets standards for elections at the local, regional and national level in Nepal, ensuring that they are free and fair, and provide the framework for local polling stations.

Makati Business Club Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

MBC is composed of the largest and most dynamic corporations in the Philippines represented by their senior executives. It has become the leading private forum for meetings that bring together business, government, and community leaders in the country. MBC fosters and promotes the role of the business sector in national development efforts, both in the planning and the implementation of policies.

Private Sector Anti-Poaching Initiative Tanzania
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 5: Order and Security

It works to facilitate the private sector in identify, developing, and implementing targeted responses to wildlife crimes. They strive to elicit the private sector's support whether moral, practical, or financial for anti-poaching efforts.

Police Accountability Project Australia
Factor 5: Order and Security

A public interest legal project which seeks to curb systematic police abuse and enhance existing accountability mechanisms through litigation, research, and advocacy.

Inter-Religious Council of Uganda Uganda
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Promotes peace and conflict transformation through collective networking and providing resources to the community

National Coordinating Organisation for Farmer Associations of the Gambia (NACOFAG) The Gambia
Factor 5: Order and Security

It works to reinforce and protect the interest of peasants and agricultural organizations with an enabling policy to guide the welfare of its members. It coordinates farmers and their organizations activities in order to ensure capacity building, lobbying and advocacy, policy dialogue, and partnership building.

The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights - CDHR Nigeria
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Founded in 1989, it works to defend and promote human rights in Nigeria through campaigns and activities in collaboration with other civil society organizations.

Prison Watch Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Founded in 1996, it monitors and reports on detention conditions and prison infrastructure in Sierra Leone. They strive to ensure safe custody and humane conditions for individuals deprived of their liberty. It provides training on human rights for officers and civil society members.

Project X Singapore
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to raise awareness and defend the rights of sex workers in Singapore.

Institute for Peace and Security Studies Addis Ababa University Ethiopia
Factor 5: Order and Security

It fosters peace and security through research, dialogue, and outreach activities in Ethiopia and throughout Africa by offering quality education and capacity training in the specialized field of peace and security to students and stakeholders.

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Brings together various immigrant community to organize and defend their rights regardless of their status for social and economuic justice.

Law Association of Zambia Zambia
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Represents lawyers and the legal profession in order to promote social justice, better laws, and access to justice

Satyamev Jayate India
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Satyamev Jayate is a TV show that discusses and provides possible solutions to address social issues in India.

Resolve Foundation Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Resolve Foundation envisions an inclusive Hong Kong and provides fellowships to emerging leaders from marginalized and underrepresented communities to empower them to be change-makers and social catalysts.

Bureau for Reconstruction and Development (BRD) Afghanistan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

BRD has been working in Afghanistan since 2002. It has been working to enhance the skills and knowledge of civil society organizations on effective conflict resolution and management through training programs.

Southern Poverty Law Center United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Seeks to combat hate and discrimination through strategic litigation for minority rights and defending civil rights, along with ending mass incarceration.

Supreme Court of the Philippines Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

The highest court in the Philippines. It is presided over by a Chief Justice and is composed of fifteen Justices. The Supreme Court has "administrative supervision over all courts and the personnel thereof.".

Central Organization of Trade Unions Kenya - COTU-K Kenya
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It promotes worker's rights and productive and sustainable employment opportunities, while facilitating social protection and effective representation of Kenyan workers.

The National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission - NGLHRC Kenya
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is an independent human rights institution working for legal and policy reforms towards the equality and full inclusion of sexual and gender minorities in Kenya. They also strive to advance meaningful participation in society on the part of sexual and gender minorities.

Civil Society Network on Climate Change Malawi
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to promote initiatives on climate change through capacity building, lobbying and coordination between NGOs and other fields concerned with climate change.