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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Health: Dialogue, Creativity, Practice - HDCP Ltd. Sierra Leone
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It mobilizes communities for improved health and wellness services through community health research, the dissemination of results, and collaborative program design. They work utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that considers the social and economic dimensions of health. Ebola Survivor Corps is their main initiative in Sierra Leone.

Association for the Defense of Displaced Persons and Refugees (APADAR) Romania
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to give legal assistance and information to refugees, and develop mechanisms for their integration into Romanian society.

Code for America United States
Factor 3: Open Government

Develops apps and technological tools for local governments to better deliver social services and information to people.

Ethiopia Social Accountability Program Phase II Ethiopia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

It is an initiative to strengthen the use of social accountability tools, approaches, and mechanisms by citizens, civil society organizations, local government officials, and service providers. It is financed through a World Bank multi-donor trust fund.

Women's Re Entry Network United States
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Creates opportunities for holistic rehabilitation of women out of the criminal justice system into society.

Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania Tanzania
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It addresses social and environmental problems, such as soil degradation, water contamination, and deforestation, caused by unsustainable farming practices that lead to food insecurity, poverty, and malnutrition. It involves farmers in the planning stages for a collaborative effort to address these challenging agricultural issues.

Peace Management Initiative Western Jamaica
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to reduce and eradicate violence in communities in Jamaica, along with detect, diffuse and prevent potentially violent situations in communities and build respect between communities and police.

Justice for Sisters Malaysia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a grassroots initiative that raises awareness concerning violence against the Mak Nyah (trans women) community in Malaysia. Their campaigns collect funds to finance the defense of transgender individuals who have been charged in Syariah court.

The Interfaith Cooperation Forum Hong Kong S.A.R., China, Cambodia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

The ICF is based in Hong Kong and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is organized jointly by the Asia and Pacific Alliance of YMCAs (APAY), the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), and Bread for the World Germany. It supports an interfaith movement for justice and transformation and is focused on marginalized communities, confronting the root causes of violence, while promoting justice in the economic, political, and social spheres.

End Child Detention Coalition Australia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

A coalition of organisations all over Australia fighting to end the detention of child immigrants in Australia via advocacy and policy reform.

Civl Society Environmental Fund Zambia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to strengthen environmental agencies and communication throughout Zambia to improve environmental policies and resource management

Bloggers Association of Kenya - BAKE Kenya
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

It has established a network of bloggers, social media influencers, activists, hackers, software developers, and lawyers, dedicated to protecting the freedom of expression and online access to information by Kenyans. Their programs iFreedoms, Jukumu Letu, and Kenya Monitor, document important occurrences and transmit them to the public.

Economic Policy Research Centre Uganda
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Seeks to better inform pubic policy through research to enhance economic development in Uganda

The Law Society of Kenya - LSK Kenya
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

It is a bar association with membership of over thirteen thousand practicing advocates. It advises and assists members of the legal profession, the government, and the larger public in all matters relating to the administration of justice in Kenya.

Centre for Social Research India
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

The Centre for Social Research was constituted to empower the women and girls of India, guarantee their fundamental rights, and increase understanding of social issues from a gender perspective.

For Empowering Women - FEW Japan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a women's networking organization that supports and empowers women to achieve their full personal and professional potential. Its members include professionals from different backgrounds and membership is open to any woman, irrespective of her nationality.

Rule of Law Institute of Australia International
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 7: Civil Justice

An independent, politically non-partisan, not-for-profit body formed to uphold the rule of law in Australia.

Alternative Law Groups, Inc. (ALG) Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 7: Civil Justice

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.

The Network against Gender Based Violence - NGBV The Gambia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a network of various organizations and institutions in the public and non-state sectors that are working to address gender based violence. It seeks to promote closer strategic partnerships for joint programming, implementation, and resource mobilization.

Independent Monitoring Group of El Salvador (GMIES) El Salvador
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to monitor working conditions in various industries in the country and to develop a Center for Labour Rights, to educate and provide legal assistance to workers about their rights.

Women's Situation Room Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is a peace building initiative to prevent and mitigate conflicts during elections. It mobilizes women and youth to ensure their active participation in the electoral process. Through observation and the analysis of data and information from the field, it provides early alerts to elections related incidents.

National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) Singapore
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Works to protect the rights and interests of workers and their families and monitor the states labour law and regulations implementation.

National Juvenile Justice Network United States
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to support and create a network of youth justice advocates and organizations to reform the justice system for better attention to youth and their families.

Innocence Project United States
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to free the wrongfully convicted, improve case law through strategic litigation, push for reform of the criminal justice system for fairer trials and to support ex detainees in their reintegration into society.

I Paid a Bribe Nepal Nepal
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

An online portal where corruption encounters/escape are reported with an aim to uncover the market price of corruption.