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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Fundación ATABAL para la Cooperación al Desarrollo Sierra Leone
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a Spanish private organization that also works in El Salvador, Nigeria, and Peru. Their aim is to contribute to the sustainable development of Sierra Leone by improving education and sanitation services. It works in partnership with Don Bosco Fambul.

League of Women Voters United States
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to ensure that all citizens, and specifically traditionally underrepresented portions of the electorate can register and cast their vote, along with reforming money in politics through anti corruption and transparency campaigns.

DixiGroup Ukraine
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Think tank working with business, political and civil society organizations in order to regulate and open up the space for the energy sector in Ukraine.

Muslims for Human Rights Kenya
Factor 5: Order and Security

It represents different sectors of Coastal Muslim communities in Kenya. Their work is focused on the following areas: peace and security development, social accountability, access to justice, and land and advocacy. They also promote the health rights of drug users, especially related to HIV infection.

Action Against Violence Uganda Uganda
Factor 5: Order and Security

Provides legal and ethical aid for survivors of domestic violence

Civil Society Budget Advisory Group (CSBAG) Uganda
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

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

Ethiopia Climate Innovation Center - ECIC Ethiopia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It supports small and medium Ethiopian enterprises that are developing innovative solutions to address the challenges of climate change. The initiative is supported by the World Bank’s program infoDev, UK Aid, and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Socio Economic Rights Institute South Africa
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

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.

Frontier Constabulary (FC) Pakistan
Factor 5: Order and Security

Originally entrusted with the task of policing the frontiers, their scope of work has expanded to include supporting law enforcement agencies in controlling law and order situation and providing security to diplomats, government installations, multi-national companies and hydro-power projects.

Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA) South Africa
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

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.

General Election Observation Committee Nepal
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

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.

India Vision Foundation India
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

The India Vision Foundation works to bring about police reforms and prison reforms and worked in various Indian states. It also aims to better the life of children who grow up in prisons.

Prison Fellowship Malawi Malawi
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

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.

Peace Ambassadors The Gambia - PAG The Gambia
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It aims to promote a culture of peace, especially among young people, ensuring a peaceful co-existence and promoting justice and equality.

The Initiative for Equal Rights - TIERs Nigeria
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Founded in 2005, it promotes and facilitates access to sexual health and other rights for sexual minorities. It works principally through policy advocacy, research, education, and service provision.

Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) Bangladesh
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to support and implement projects related to security and counterrorism, transparency, accountability and anti corruption, along with good governance and regulatory development through its research center and fund.

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.

Ombudsman NSW Australia
Factor 3: Open Government

Monitors agencies delivering public services, services to children, and community services to imporve the conduct of those agencies.

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit Afghanistan
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 7: Civil Justice

The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) is an independent research institute based in Kabul seeking to provide quality research and analysis to inform public policy decisions.

Freeland Thailand
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Freeland is dedicated to making the world free of wildlife trafficking and human slavery. Head-quartered in Bangkok, they work throughout Asia and beyond. Freeland's programs include support for law enforcement agencies through training and tip-offs, support to vulnerable communities with the introduction of alternative livelihoods, and public education through mass media campaigns and grassroots outreach.

Zambia Civic Education Association (ZCEA) Zambia
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Aims to increase citizen awareness of their rights and responsibilites to promote good governance and strengthened democracy

Center for European Neighborhood Studies Hungary
Factor 3: Open Government

It is an independent research center of the Central European University (CEU). It contributes to an informed international dialogue about the future of the European Union. The center focuses geographically on Central and Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and Turkey, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus, and Russia.

Tanzania Media Women's Association - TAMWA Tanzania
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is committed to advocating for women and children’s rights by conducting awareness raising activities to bring about cultural, policy and legal changes/transformation in the society through the use of media.

Tanzania Network of Legal Aid Providers - TANLAP Tanzania
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is a membership network comprising non-governmental organizations. It was founded in 2006, and its core aim is to work and link up with other civil society organizations that provide quality legal aid and advocate for access to justice among the poor and marginalized sections of society in Tanzania.

University of the Philippines-Office of Legal Aid Philippines
Factor 7: Civil Justice

The Office of Legal Aid (OLA) houses the clinical education program of the College of Law. It provides free legal assistance to indigent litigants. It is also actively involved in public interest cases.