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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Sierra Club United States
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Undertakes actions to protect wildlife and the environment and to push for legislation on environment related issues and alternative energies.

Business Foundation for Social Action (FUNDEMAS) El Salvador
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to develop local initiatives for sustainability and development, and has partenered with UNDEF to Young Leaders project, to foster young leadership around conflict resolution and citizen participation in the democratic process.

Rural Human Rights Activists Programme (RHRAP) Liberia
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to update and improve the criminal justice system for the protection of all, and to guarantee access to economic and environmental rights for vulnerable portions of society.

CMS India
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

CMS is dedicated to multi-disciplinary research-driven initiatives that enable policy makers to take informed decisions on development and social change to improve quality of life.

Center on International Cooperation United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

The Center seeks to develop actionable research in the fields of politics, security, justice and development in order to enhance international responses in countries, especially those affected by conflict.

The Africa Centre for Open Governance - AfriCOG Kenya
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is an independent organization that provides research and monitoring on governance and public ethics issues, in both the public and private sectors addressing the structural causes of lacks in governance.

Anza Entrepreneurs Tanzania
Factor 3: Open Government

Anza supports businesses in Tanzania with strategic consulting, business training, affordable capital and access to a network of experts. In 2015, they launched the largest co-working space in Tanzania (Kili Hub) that enables social impact organizations and businesses to work together.

Phandeeyar Myanmar
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is an innovation laboratory that advances the use of technology to accelerate change and development in Myanmar. In partnership with Open Development Mekong, they developed Open Development Myanmar to promote open data in the country. Other initiatives include Tech for Peace, Digital Rights, and Open Hluttaw in partnership with Myanmar Fifth Estate.

Techno Brain - Malawi Malawi
Factor 5: Order and Security

Leading IT firm in Africa, developed a Criminal Tracking system alongside the Malawi Police Force in order to coordinate investigation programs and modernise systems across all offices.

Youth Partnership for Peace and Development Sierra Leone
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Founded in 2005, it advocates for youth led social change, builds alliances with other civil society organizations, and strengthens existing youth organizations. Their goal is to create a youth movement to monitor the enhancement of governmental transparency and accountability.

The Institute for Policy Interaction Malawi
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

Seeks to promote citizen participation in the public policy debate, through continuous dialogue and monitoring of government institutions, instead of ad hoc discussions.

Swat Youth Front (SYF) Pakistan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

SYF is a non-profit youth led organization striving for peace-building, tolerance and human development in Malakand Region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Association for the Development of Alternative Practices for Education and Reintegration (ADPARE) Romania
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to prevent human trafficking and protect victims through national awareness campaigns and assistance.

Consumer Action United States
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Through multilingual platforms and programmes seeks to inform consumers about their rights and help them achieve financial prosperity.

Action Works Nepal (AWON) Nepal
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Action Works Nepal's objective is to improve the livelihood of the poor, excluded, and vulnerable communities through innovative vocational opportunities, and economic empowerment activities as driven by communities.

Harakat (Afghanistan Investment Climate Facility Organization) Afghanistan
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Removing and reducing regulatory and institutional barriers to doing business through providing grant funds to government, private sector and civil society, in order to increase or create opportunities for investment in Afghanistan.

Non-Governmental Gender Organisations' Coordinating Council Zambia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Serves as a network for various other organizations around the country working to advance gender equality and development

The Duty Lawyer Service Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Founded in 1978, it is managed by the Hong Kong Bar Association and the Law Society of Hong Kong with financing from the government. It complements legal aid services provided by the Legal Aid Department by offering four legal assistance schemes: the Duty Lawyer Scheme, the Legal Advice Scheme, the Tel-Law Scheme, and the Convention Against Torture and Non-refoulement Claims Scheme.

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Leading think tank and resource center on the state of health in the United States.

Sehgal Foundation India
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Sehgal Foundation works to advance good rural governance and enables villagers to understand their rights, learn how to access public services, and participate with government officials in addressing and solving local problems.

Liberia Women Empowerment Network Liberia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to improve the lives of men and women affected by HIV/AIDS along with defending the rights of LGBT people.

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency - ADRA Ghana
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is the Ghanaian chapter of the global humanitarian organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It works to create positive change in the conditions that cause poverty, with activities including agriculture, food security, WASH, as well as livelihood support to refugee population, among others.

World Human Development Organisation Sri Lanka
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

The WDHO works to uplift disadvantaged communities by creating self-developing and self-supporting programs within these communities to empower and educate them.

Uganda Youth Network Uganda
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Aims to engage youth in development and government processes through training and policy advocacy

Global Justice Center International
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

The Global Justice Center seeks to effectively make use of international human rights treatise in order to guarantee access to human rights for people around the world. Through an expert team of lawyers and human rights advocates they seek to apply the treaties' guarantees to expand access and ensure normative control.