Leading Organizations

It is a Feed the Future project funded by USAID, and developed in partnership with six U.S. land grant universities. The project aims to prepare teachers, researchers, and extension practitioners in Tanzania to cooperatively and effectively address needs of small landowning farmers, the growing agribusiness sector, and to improve food security.

Founded in 1995, it promotes and defends human rights and democratic values in Ethiopia. CAHDE seeks to raise awareness of human rights abuses through monitoring, documentation, strategic litigation, and human rights oriented discussions.

Works to ensure transparency and accountability of government, implementation of the rule of law, and activism.

A coalition of sex workers, health professionals, social scientists, professional sex educators working to build local and regional leadership and constructive activism in the sex worker population to advocate for sex workers’ human, labor and civil rights.

Works to provide assistance to victims of assault through its hopline and to coordinate programs to bring perpetrators to justice.

The Commission was inaugurated in 1987 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and relocated to Banjul, Gambia in 1989. Its mission is the protection and promotion of human rights, and the jurisprudence of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

Set up in 1995, it seeks to coordinate the activities of the various Malawian NGOs working on human rigths issues, through guiding principles and capacitation.

It is a legal research website that promotes the open access to legal information through an extensive compilation of laws, documents, conferences, and seminars.

It is a Pan-African organization, headquartered in Ghana, with operations in Ethiopia, India, Malawi Namibia, Nigeria, and Liberia. They work to empower and equip health systems in Africa to offer optimal healthcare for every child, woman, and man.

It encourages citizenry interest in politics by increasing civic engagement and political participation. Their programs include research and engagement programs such as Democracy Talks and Everyday Political Citizen.

Works alongside businesses in order to improve the health and wellbeing of employees, and produces risk assessment reports and workplace safety guidelines.

IndiaSpend is a data journalism initiative of the Spending & Policy Research Foundation. It utilizes open data to analyze a range of issues with the broad objective of fostering better governance, transparency and accountability in the Indian government, particularly of the Indian judiciary.

Naandi, which in Sanskrit means a new beginning, is one of the largest and fastest growing social sector organizations in India working to make poverty history. It focuses on enhancing the quality of life of the marginalized and less privileged in our society by addressing concerns of hunger, quality education, drinking water and livelihood opportunities.

Defending workers' rights at the national level, and coordinating the actions of local unions.

It fosters good governance and equality, empowering communities through education in political participation, social accountability, and gender issues. Their programs promote the engagement of women in governance and the improvement of livelihoods through infrastructure development.

Works to deliver environmenal justice and rights to people in affected areas and ensure the protection of the environment through due process, litigation and public awareness.

AACN is a social, non- profit, non partisan, non- political and non-governmental network established to bring together different civil society organization and individuals alike to fight corruption in Afghanistan.

Training Human Rights Association (THRA) is a non-governmental, non-political and non-profit organization working in the areas of human rights awareness, Afghan women's capacity development, advocacy, CSOs capacity building and gender.

Emerged after the civil war and participated in the disarmement process. Currently, it works to develop empowerment programmes through art and other activities with women and youths.

It strives to prevent the poaching of elephants and all wildlife in East Africa. Under the principle that sustainable conservation can only be achieved through a community-based collaborative approach. They track and apprehend wildlife criminals and collaborate with local prosecutors to ensure that they are punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Supports other civil society organisations working to make the needs of the poor and vulnerable heard by the government

It is the state’s lead agency in the promotion and protection of human rights. It was founded in 2010 to protect, promote, and monitor the respect for human rights in Kenya through law, policy, and practice.

As the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific, LAWASIA brings together under a regional umbrella, the peak bodies representing lawyers of the ESCAP region and individual members of the legal community from around the world.

The JUSTICE program combats court ineffectiveness and ABA ROLI, in close collaboration with local partners, such as the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, the Office of Government Corporate Counsel and the Intellectual Property Office, is implementing targeted interventions to make the Philippine justice system more responsive, reliable and efficient.

Created in 1967 it works to create a fair justice system with equal access for all including those historically marginalized and the economically disadvantaged. It produces many publications supports community initiatives to equalize access to justice.