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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Philippine Commission on Women Philippines
Factor 3: Open Government

PCW is recognized as the government authority that champions women's empowerment and gender equality. The PCW acts as a catalyst for gender mainstreaming, authority on women’s concerns, and lead advocate of women’s empowerment, gender equity, and gender equality in the country.

Agency for Integrated Rural Development (AFIRD) Uganda
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Helps rural areas develop economically through youth empowerment, agricultural advocacy, and institutional development

Forum for African Women Educationalists (Burkina Faso Chapter) Burkina Faso
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

FAWE works on increasing girls' access to education by providing scholarships for tuition, books, and clothes, as well as literacy clinics and policy advocacy for educational reforms.

Friends of the Nation - FoN Ghana
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Founded in 1993, it is a socio-environmental advocacy organization committed to enhancing active citizenship, social accountability, and promoting human rights in resource governance. It also facilitates capacity building, knowledge transfer, research, and networking.

The Foreign Policy Initiative United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Think tank working on formulating proposals for public policy on security, diplomacy and governance.

Centre for Citizens with Disabilities Nigeria
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It works to promote inclusion, participation, and the mainstreaming of issues concerning citizens with disabilities through the promotion of their rights, in addition to research, documentation, advocacy, and legal aid in collaboration with state and non-state actors.

The Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking Philippines
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

The IACAT is the body created by law to coordinate and monitor the implementation of Republic Act No. 9208, otherwise known as the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003. The IACAT has been at the forefront of the drawn-out battle against trafficking in persons.

Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) India
Factor 3: Open Government

Digital Empowerment Foundation's mission is to empower people, especially marginalized and information-lacking communities, with the power of information and knowledge using digital interventions and ICT tools.

Caritas Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

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.

Catholic Lawyers Society Malaysia Malaysia
Factor 7: Civil Justice

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.

Zambia Network for Environmental Educators and Practitioners Zambia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Aims to raise awareness around environmental issues and promote sustainable practices through education

COLFASA Romania
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to promote the rights of marginalised groups in society and especially in the workplace, through research and lobbying for social reform.

National Federation of the Disabled, Nepal (NFDN) Nepal
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

National Federation of the Disabled, Nepal (NFDN) is a registered nongovernmental organization (NGO) and a national-level umbrella body of persons with disabilities, represents more than three hundreds member organizations working for promoting the rights of disabled people.

Data Coalition United States
Factor 3: Open Government

Advocates for government openness and data and information provision for accountability and oversight by citizens.

International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy Canada
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is an initiative that promotes democratic principles, the rule of law, and respect for human rights in criminal law and the administration of criminal justice. Its mission is to improve the quality of justice through reforms of criminal law, policy, and practice.

Justice for All Organization Afghanistan
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Justice for All Organization aims to expand access to justice to marginalized populations - particularly women, children, and prisoners - throughout Afghanistan.

Center for Education, Promotion and Empowerment of Women Vietnam
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to promote the role of women in society and make them independent through the defense of their rights.

Center for Teaching the Rule of Law United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to expand education about the rule of law by disseminating its principles and tenets in order to change the understanding of the rule of law and provide capacity for adults and, especially, young people to explore its usefulness as a foundation of society.

General Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

The Prosecutor's Office works to uncover, litigate and bring into the public eye cases of corruption, independently of state institutions which it may also investigate. It also plays a crucial role in educating the public about corruption and how eliminate it

Msichana Initiative Tanzania
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

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.

Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Philippines
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to provide rehabiliation programmes and mechanisms for offenders, and inform the public on the workings of the prison system.

Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations Australia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to promote awareness and proactivity around HIV prevention nationally and internationally through advocacy and health promotion.

Mifumi Uganda
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to protect women and children from abuse which empowers women to contribute to development

The Centre for Rights Education and Awareness - CREAW Kenya
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is a feminist organization that seeks to expand women's human rights. Founded in 1999, it aims to create public awareness on women's rights and the provision of free legal aid and psychosocial support to female survivors of sexual and gender based violence. They protect and promote the work of commercial sex workers.

Restorative Justice Centre (RJC) South Africa
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to promote the use of restorative justice in South Africa, in order to drive crime reduction and ensure a more compassionate justice system.