Leading Organizations

Researches and advocates for sustainable environmental management and public health and advises government on environmental management

It is a Pan-African institute of policy research and dialogue, that works toward governmental accountability concerning the protection of children's rights. It monitors and reports progress, provides a platform for dialogue, and collaborates with inter-governmental organizations and civil society.

India Rejuvenation Initiative was formed by a group of retired and serving top bureaucrats in 2005, IRI focused its attention towards corruption prevalent at the top echelons of Indian polity.

Works to develop standards of the justice system, train lawyers and officials and produce reports to improve the running of the justice system.

2019 World Justice Challenge Applicant - Project Title: Halfway House community reintegration for offenders project
Coalition of ministries offering assistance through education, health, advocacy and skills training to inmates in all of Malawi's prisons.

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.

It is the national body responsible for carrying out health research, capacity building, innovation, and service delivery in Kenya.

LANCAU NEPAL is a law based social engineering organization, dedicated to uproot the untouchability system from Nepal. Some of the activities it focuses on are formation of a global pressure group of lawyers to curb untouchability, and providing national and global level pro-bono legal support.

It was founded in 2001, and advocates for child health, education, food security, social welfare, the environment, and youth development. It works in partnership with the Ministry of Health & Social Welfare.

Works to produce reports on new modes of social engagement and does capacity building with business, government, NGOs and citizens.

Works to help women who have been victims of domestic violence, through surgery programs, financial assistance, community projects, and public policy advocacy.

It advocates for fair agriculture and trade policies affecting the livelihoods of small scale farmers. Its programs increase agricultural production and build capacities of Ghanaian farmers.

It was founded in 1989 and provided emergency and humanitarian relief during the civil war. Their present initiatives include post war peace building projects, programs for HIV/AIDS prevention, food security, environmental protection, poverty eradication, and gender equality.

It promotes social justice, peace, and the rule of law. Their Free Legal Clinics offer access to justice to the underprivileged in areas such as employment, family, housing, immigration, and welfare benefits, to name a few.

It advocates for girls educational rights in Tanzania. It seeks to ensure that this inherent right is given to all human beings without due regard to gender, discrimination, economic conditions, cultural, social, and political justification.

Works to guarantee the rights of all people, and to assist local governments in providing access to human rights along with protecting people who are victims of gender based violence.

The GEOC is an alliance of 10 different organizations including the Nepal Law Society (NLS). It has been involved in programs to support the institutionalization of democracy for the past 20 years. GEOC's members are independent intellectuals, legal luminaries, jurists, former government officials, social activists, human rights workers, professors, senior media persons and so on.

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.

Provides legal and ethical aid for survivors of domestic violence

Seeks to influence government decisions surrounding resources to promote achievement of sustainable development

2019 World Justice Challenge Applicant - Project Title: Overcoming the Challenges of Access to Justice
Founded in 1993, it is dedicated to the defense of ecosystems in terms of human rights, and for the promotion of environmentally responsible practices in Nigeria. It is the local chapter of Friends of the Earth International and the coordinator in Africa for Oilwatch International.

Independent, non-profit public policy think tank in Australia, dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom.

The Youth Parliament of Pakistan (YPP) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious program established to foster democratic values and civic participation among youth.

It engages citizens in dialogue and transformative experiences to revitalize relationships between Indigenous and non-indigenous people in Canada. It builds partnerships, has community outreach programs and workshops, and hosts events throughout the country.

Works to protect and promote the rights of women and their place in Jamaican society. The run a crisis centre and hotline for victims of rape, abuse and domestic violence.