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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Feminist Dalit Organization (FEDO) Nepal
Factor 7: Civil Justice

NGO founded to establish the rights of Dalit women by organizing and empowering them in order for them to bring their demands into the national development program.

KARAPATAN Philippines
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

KARAPATAN is an alliance of human rights organizations and programs, human rights desks and committees of people’s organizations, and individual advocates committed to the defense of people’s rights and civil liberties.

Africa Mental Health Foundation - AMHF Kenya
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is an organization dedicated to research in mental and neurological health and substance use. Its aim is to generate evidence for policies and best practices in the provision of affordable, appropriate, available, and accessible mental health services.

Office of the Ombudsman Malawi Malawi
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Receives complaints for the Malawi population that does not have access to courts or cannot pay legal fees. In reality, it has managed the majority of civil cases in Malawi.

Children's Legal Rights and Development Center Philippines
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Children's Legal Rights and Development Center, Inc. is a non-profit legal resource human rights organization for children committed to advancing children's rights and welfare through the provision of its services based on human rights developmental framework approach and methodologies.

Yangon Journalism School - YJS Myanmar
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It works to improve journalistic quality and promotes professionalism among local journalists to serve as watchdogs and social justice advocates. It provides training and support for local newspapers and radio and TV stations throughout the country.

Women in Need Sri Lanka
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

WiN aim to combat violence, especially gendered violence, in order to promote a conflict-free society in which the law protects women and they may access justice equally and fairy.

Uganda Safety Council Uganda
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Ensures safe and healthy work environments and regulations

Maruah Singapore
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to promote and raise awareness on human rights issues and bring issues of justice in human rights to the forefront of public debate.

We Watch Thailand
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

We Watch supports the strengthening of democracy and the participation of citizens in transparent elections by establishing a civilian network that advocates for democratic and political rights in Thailand. Their activities include civic education, the creation of a youth volunteer network, and monitoring, to name a few.

National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) United States
Factor 3: Open Government

Coordinates and trains organizations to advocate for social and economic justice in health, housing, education and work.

Ntinga Ntaba kaNdoda South Africa
Factor 3: Open Government

Works to promote sustainable rural development in Keiskammahoek, through local action driven by the communities. They are present in 13 Ntaba kaNdoda villages.

Centre for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) Ghana
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It strives for justice for the underprivileged, notably for vulnerable mining communities. It works for the improvement of democratic governance, the rule of law, and to ensure accountability of public and private actors through advocacy, litigation, social mobilization, and research.

Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Ethiopia - CAHDE United Kingdom
Factor 3: Open Government

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.

IAGRI - Innovative Agricultural Research Initiative Tanzania
Factor 5: Order and Security

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.

African Commission on Human and People's Rights The Gambia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

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.

Nigerian Law Resources Nigeria
Factor 3: Open Government

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

Ritanjali India
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Ritinjali has been working at the Tihar Jail for over 12 years. Among a select few NGOs permitted to work at Tihar Jail, Ritinjali's volunteers run a detailed rehabilitation and counselling programme and provides free legal assistance to juveniles and women inmates.

Media Women Center for Development and Democracy Liberia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Media Women Center for Development and Democracy is a pro media, gender and policy research organization that uses media to promote and protect the rights of women, rural dwellers and the disabled.

Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO) Afghanistan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

AHRDO is an organization that promotes human rights mainly through a variety of arts and theatre-based programs.

Peace Education And Development (PEAD) Foundation Pakistan
Factor 5: Order and Security

A non-profit training and advocacy organization, which has been engaged in de-radicalization and counter-extremism efforts in Pakistan since 2002, with a special focus on the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Samara Canada Canada
Factor 7: Civil Justice

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.

The Coalition on Violence Against Women - COVAW Kenya
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It was founded in 1995, and works to promote and advance women’s human rights striving to create a society free from all forms of violence against women. Their mission is to build social movements opposed to, and committed to eradicating violence against women.

The Philippine Judicial Academy  Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

The Philippine Judicial Academy, a separate but component unit of the Supreme Court, has become an all-important factor in the promotion of judicial education in the Philippines.Its mission is to provide opportunities to develop judicial competence, instill sound values, and form constructive attitudes in its continuing pursuit of judicial excellence.

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) Bangladesh
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

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.