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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement - TOAM Tanzania
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is an umbrella organization that coordinates and promotes the development of organic farming among distributors, consumers, and producers, through networking and the sharing of information. It has 115 members including various types of institutions and organizations, such as farmers associations and cooperatives, NGOs, organic operators, companies, distributors, researchers, and trainers.

Children’s Legal Action Network - CLAN Kenya
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It advocates for the protection of the rights and welfare of children, through the provision of free legal aid and related services, working together with other stakeholders. It also advocates for mobilization of adequate human and budgetary resources at the national and county levels.

The Future In Our Hands - FIOH The Gambia
Factor 3: Open Government

It is a Swedish based charity that was established in The Gambia in the early 1980's, focused on promoting education and increasing the capacity of people in rural communities to combat grinding poverty.

Twaweza Kenya
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

It works on enabling children to learn, citizens to exercise agency, and governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. It undertakes effective public and policy engagement, through powerful media partnerships and global leadership of initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership.

Association of Women for Dignity and the Life of the Dignified El Salvador
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to eradicate violence against women, for equality, through training, research and legal assistance . Through its Observatory, it also monitors public policy on gender issues

Medical Action Myanmar - MAM Myanmar
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is a medical aid organization who provides quality basic healthcare services to the underprivileged through a network of clinics. Their areas of work include HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition, and family planning services.

Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York Law School Nepal
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Center for Human Rights and Global Justice works with Dalit groups and activists to advocate with Nepal's lawmakers to ensure that Nepal's new constitution complies with Nepal's international human rights law obligations and that the new constitution meaningfully protects and advances the rights and equality of Dalits.

The Budget Advocacy Network Sierra Leone
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

It is a coalition of civil society organizations committed to monitoring budget policy, budget revenue, and budget allocations. It promotes the implementation of transparent and accountable budgeting systems as an essential tool for the achievement of social justice and equity in Sierra Leone.

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Afghanistan
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 7: Civil Justice

In addition to its other activities, NRC has been advising Afghans on a wide range of legal matters, guiding them through legal processes and supporting them as they defend their legal rights within communities. It has been specifically working with women on their housing, land and property rights.

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.

Child Research and Resource Centre - CRRECENT Ghana
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It uses evidence-based programs to promote child and youth rights in Ghana. Their initiatives are centered on juvenile justice and re-integration, economic empowerment, participation in governance, and policy advocacy for children and youth action.

AIDHA Singapore
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Provides training courses for migrant women in Singapore in financial literacy and self development with the goal of enabling to develop ventures in Singapore and send money home.

Louisiana Justice Institute United States
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to represents communities of color and vulnerable parts of Louisiana in respect of their human rights and for social justice.

Central Investigation Bureau, Nepal Police Nepal
Factor 5: Order and Security

Nepal Police has a special unit viz. CIB to investigate crimes of complex nature.

Business Anti-Corruption Portal India
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

The Business Anti-Corruption Portal (BACP) is a one-stop shop for business anti-corruption information offering tools on how to mitigate risks and costs of corruption when doing business abroad.

Center for Youth and Development (CYD) Malawi
Factor 3: Open Government

Grassroots organization seeking to empower rural communities through education and environmental projects from a bottom up perspective.

Committee on Legal Affairs, Human Rights, National Guidance, Gender Matters, and Governnace Zambia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Investigates and monitors other sectors of government including the Ministry of Justice and scrutinizes actions of other agencies to make policy reccomendations to the House

Legal Action Worldwide (Sri Lanka) Sri Lanka
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

LAW provides technical support to several criminal justice institutions, including the Attorney General's Department, the Judicial Services Commission, and other branches that require assistance. LAW Sri Lanka's aim is to raise the importance of transitional justice among local law students, providing opportunities to engage in the peace process as it moves forward.

The Land and Equity Movement of Uganda Uganda
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Advocates for fair access to land and land profitability by linking communities with their governments

Legal Rights Forum (LRF) Pakistan
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to increase access to justice and protect human rights through capacity building, legal awareness, legal aid, legal research, and advocacy programs.

Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education Philippines
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Established in 1996, Tebtebba seeks to promote and disseminate indigenous peoples worldviews, their perspectives on key issues such as individual and collective human rights, sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity, traditional knowledge, customary laws and governance, conflict transformation, gender, etc.

Ecojustice Canada
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Ecojustice legally defends nature, combats climate change, and fights for a healthy environment for all. It provides free legal representation through their Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Ottawa.

Ifakara Health Institute - IHI Tanzania
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) has been one of Africa’s most important health research organizations for the past 50 years. IHI conducts a wide range of health-related research, including biomedical and environmental studies, trials of drugs, vaccines and diagnostics, health-systems research, and monitoring and evaluation.

Charles Koch Institute United States
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

The Charles Koch Institute also works to foster a national conversation on critical issues that have a strong impact on the advancement of societal well-being.