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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) India India
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

The National Human Rights Commission of India has the mandate to inquire into violations of human rights by public servants, to intervene in court proceedings relating to human rights, make recommendations to remedy factors that inhibit enjoyment of human rights, review safeguards set out in the Constitution and treaties and make recommendations for their effective implementation.

Prison Fellowship Romania Romania
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to reintegrate ex prisoners into Romanian society and to assist vulnerable persons in prison.

National Legal Aid Clinic for Women Zambia
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

A free legal aid resource for underrepresented women and children which aims to protect their rights and advocate for policy reform

Women's Situation Room Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is a peace building initiative to prevent and mitigate conflicts during elections. It mobilizes women and youth to ensure their active participation in the electoral process. Through observation and the analysis of data and information from the field, it provides early alerts to elections related incidents.

It Gets Better Project United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to create platforms and education for LGBTQ youths to defend their rights and show them that it gets better through stories and testimonies from people who have overcome discrimination.

The Network against Gender Based Violence - NGBV The Gambia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a network of various organizations and institutions in the public and non-state sectors that are working to address gender based violence. It seeks to promote closer strategic partnerships for joint programming, implementation, and resource mobilization.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice United States
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Educates and researches all topics of criminal justice to create individuals that will uphold and transform the criminal justice system for the better.

Think Young Women - TYW The Gambia The Gambia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Founded in 2010, it aims to address issues affecting young women by building their skills and strengthening their voices to create more impact and support for achieving women’s rights.

Initiative for the Americas Fund (FIAES) El Salvador
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to protect and regulate environmental conservation in El Salvador through public and private funds and experts

The International Budget Partnership Kenya Kenya
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Their main areas of interest are increasing public understanding of, and engagement with budgets, and budgetary transparency. They engage civil society, the media and the government. They offer research, technical assistance and training, and advocacy.

Save The Childhood Movement (Bachpan Bachao Andolan) India
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Save The Childhood Movement was established to identify, liberate, rehabilitate and educate children in servitude through direct intervention, child and community participation, coalition building, consumer action, promoting ethical trade practices and mass mobilization.

Anti-Corruption Front Sri Lanka
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

ACF is an independent organisation founded in 2015 aimed at disclosing financial irregularities, cases of bribery, and corruption within government; it launched the 'A Corruption Free Country by 2020' campaign and gathered complaints from citizens on corruption within government.

THINK Liberia Liberia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to rehabilitate girls and women who have been victims of violence in order to give them access to education and basic rights.

National Forum of People Living with HIV/AIDS Networks in Uganda (NAFOPHANU) Uganda
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Aims to give those with HIV/AIDs a productive life in a sustainable way by providing services, peer support, and advocacy

Canadian Prison Consulting Canada
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is a private consulting firm that provides legal assistance and mentoring programs for inmates in federal penitentiaries. Their activities also include rehabilitation and crime prevention.

Afghan Development Association (ADA) Afghanistan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

ADA has been working on multiple projects since 1990 in support of human rights and the establisment of peace councils and capacity building communities for conflict resolution.

UNDP - Local Governance Project – Afghanistan (LoGo) Afghanistan
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

LoGo has been working with local government departments to improve delivery of services, as well as develop the monitoring and evaluation capacity of local people by strengthening networks and interest groups (including women's groups).

Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA) International
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

An international human rights organization dedicated to deterring torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world and advancing the rights of survivors to seek truth, justice and redress.

Anti-Corruption & Anti-Narcotics Association of Pakistan (ACANAP) Pakistan
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

ACANAP is an independent, non-partisan and not-for-profit research and training organization with the mission to eradicate corruption and narcotics from Pakistan.

Peasant Movement of the Philippines –Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)  Philippines
Factor 3: Open Government

Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is a democratic and militant movement of landless peasants, small farmers, farm workers, rural youth and peasant women. It has effective leadership over a total of 1.3 million rural people with 65 provincial chapters and 15 regional chapters nationwide.

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) International
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

An intergovernmental organization that supports sustainable democracy worldwide.

Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau Tanzania
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

It works to prevent and combat corruption through public educators in prevention, diagnosis, and investigations through the Departments of Investigations, Public Education, and Research and Control, among others. They work together with the East African Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities.

National Information Commission (NIC) Nepal
Factor 3: Open Government

An independent body constituted pursuant to the Right to Information Act, 2008. NIC is mainly responsible for the implementation of the RTI Act in Nepal. Protection, promotion and enforcement is the core areas of NIC work.

Center for Policy Research India
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Center for Policy Research is dedicated to conducting research that contributes to a more robust public discourse about the structures and processes that shape life in India. It's principal areas of research are economic policy, environmental law and governance, international relations and security, law, regulation and the state, and urbanization.

Women in Law and Development in Africa - WiLDAF Ghana
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It is a Pan-African women’s rights network that promotes strategies that link law and development to increase women’s participation in decision making processes. Their access to justice program provides legal services to the underprivileged, while other initiatives include legal literacy volunteers, mobile legal outreach, and community reconciliation committees.