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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Human Rights Council Ethiopia Ethiopia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Founded in 1991, HRCO is an independent organization that works towards building a democratic system though the promotion of the rule of law and due process, and encouraging and conducting human rights monitoring.

Shining Hope for Communities - SHOFCO Kenya
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It combats gender inequality and extreme poverty in urban slums by linking tuition free schools for girls to holistic social services. Its model is centered around a school that provides a superior education with free healthcare, food, and psychosocial services.

Transparency International Zambia Zambia
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Detects government corruption, promotes dialogue surrounding good governance, and develops ways to successfully deal with corruption

Financial Intelligence Unit Malawi
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Agency created to combat money laundering in Malawi through the MCC Malawi Threshold Program.

Institute for Development and Communication International
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Engaged in social research with implications for change in the field of social development, governance to improve public safety and justice, economic development for distributive justice and gender studies.

Faith-based Congress Against Immoral Debts Philippines
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

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.

Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP) United States
Factor 5: Order and Security

Develops guidelines for institutions and persons working with sex workers, people in the sex trade and the larger community.

Heritage Foundation United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 5: Order and Security

Formulates and promotes conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

Laboratoires de l"Egalite France
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Aims to articulate public debate and civic initiatives in government and business monitoring of equality in employment, salaries and representation.

Arusha Women Legal Aid and Human Rights Organization (AWLAHURIO) Tanzania
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It is a non-profit NGO formed by Women’s Legal Aid Centre in 1992 as a paralegal unit. It works to create a just society that respects women’s and children’s rights; to increase lobbying, advocacy, and monitoring of human rights practices; and to reduce land conflicts among communities of the Arusha region.

Lawyers Collective India
Factor 5: Order and Security

Lawyers Collective was created with the specific aim of providing legal services to the community and hlping people who had been affected by institutional backlog. It took up cases of pavement dwellers and slum dwellers, hawkers and women in distress.

West African Development Organization - WADO The Gambia
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It fosters sustainable projects and works to encourage a low carbon economic development within West Africa. In Gambia, it works in partnership with the National Youth Association for Food Security (NAYAFS), and the National Coordinating Organisation for Farmer Associations of the Gambia (NACOFAG).

Advocacy Movement Network - AMNet Sierra Leone
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It aims to end all forms of gender based violence and social injustice. It advocates for the rights of the underprivileged and engages duty bearers to enforce laws that protect women and children.

Integrity Section - Supreme Court of Justice El Salvador
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Works to investigate and prosecute cases of misconduct, missapropriation of funds and corruption by government officials

Steps Toward Development (STEPS) Bangladesh
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to provide women with economic, social and political rights in Bangladesh through trainings, workshops, advocacy and knowledge sharing.

People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) South Africa
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Protects, informs and advocates for justice for people who are victims of gender based violence, along with developing knowledge about womens' issues.

International Development Law Organization (IDLO) International
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Intergovernmental organization exclusively devoted to promoting the rule of law through access to justice and other delivery enhancing programmes for justice.

Asia Justice and Rights Sri Lanka
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Organisation based in Indonesia, with offices in Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, and Burma, who advocate for strengthening democracy in these locations by utilising local programs and engaging local actors to engender a grassroots culture of justice and accountability as these governments move toward a more human-rights conscious ethos.

Ugandan Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Uganda
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Promotes women's rights and advances access to justice for women

Data Science Singapore
Factor 3: Open Government

Aims to bring together explorers of data in order to create data and information access within Singapore.

Mises Institute United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Libertarian research Institute working on public policy and debate to inform society from the point of view of the Austrian economics movement.

REDRESS Nepal
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

REDRESS is a human rights organization that helps torture survivors obtain justice and reparation. In Nepal, REDRESS is working in partnership with Advocacy Forum, a leading human rights NGO in Nepal, to reduce incidents of torture in Nepal and to improve torture survivors' ability to access justice and obtain reparation for what they have suffered.

Faraja Foundation Kenya
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It provides services to many vulnerable people, among them prisoners, ex-prisoners, and refugees. They work in collaboration with the Kenya Prisons Service and the Probation and After Care Services for the rehabilitation, reintegration, and after care of offenders.

United Disabled Persons of Kenya - UDPK Kenya
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It advocates for the rights of persons with disabilities, and is committed to create an equal platform to work with authorities to ensure their inclusion in policy framework development. They promote the participation and representation of persons with disabilities in governance structures.

Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network Jamaica
Factor 3: Open Government

Works to promote youth in leadership positions and train youth in decision making and awareness raising.