Leading Organizations

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding empowers people divided by conflict to develop mutual understanding and to create sustainable peace. It innovates approaches for transforming conflict by supporting people in all sectors of society to discover their shared capacity for building peace.

LIBERTAS advocates for transparency and accountability in Government; the right of the citizens to information on matters of public concern; a free, clean, and honest electoral process; a free and responsible media; and the State's respect for all human rights, with full guarantees to the freedom of expression.

It works to enable citizens to become a strong driving force for change, and to improve the democratic governance of Tanzania. The foundation has supported over 4,000 Civil Society Organizations with grants worth more than 60 million dollars.

The objective of Justice On Trial is to promote, protect and defend human rights and freedom. It redresses the violation of human rights of victims of violence. To this effect, it has filed many Public Interest Litigations in the Court to ensure justice be meted out to victims of crimes.

It supports a sustainable civic education reform process that enables the system of civic education to fully perform its function in bringing about a democratic culture and empowering citizens to participate in the democratic process. Their goal is to build a broad coalition that unites governmental and non-governmental agencies around a common platform for dialogue and a more progressive paradigm of civic education.

It is an independent research-based policy “think-and-do-tank” that supports the peace process and security transition and works closely with different stakeholders. MIPS has developed the Township-based Conflict Monitoring System, which has collected data since 2012.

Implements and stregthens the National Development Plans with the specific goal of reducing poverty and ensuring the meaningful participation of civil society organisations in reaching these goals

Founded in 1959, it provides co-operation, dialogue and understanding with the Government by representing the views and concerns of its members. It promotes trade and investment, upholds standards, encourages the formulation, enactment, and administration of policies for a competitive and sustainable local manufacturing sector.

Works to rehabilitate ex offenders into society, coordinate care efforts, and to raise awareness and change policy on rehabilitation.

Works to assist families having suffered violence and homicide on part of the police or through community violence, through the work of their Family Crisis Team.

Empowers churches and communities to fight poverty and improve lives of those living with HIV/AIDS

Coalition of businesses working to organize a response to HIV/AIDS and public health issues inside and outside the workplace.

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.

SWM is an independent organisation set up to empower women by educating them on their legal rights, and assisting them in developing the holistic knowledge and skills necessary to encourage greater self-reliance and responsibility.

It provides health service implementation, capacity building, and research to ensure equitable access to individuals and communities in Nigeria. Their areas of expertise include HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, cancer, and other infectious diseases.

Creates a network for members to more successfully lobby and advocate for a society free of gender-based discrimination

Strives to promote knowledge sharing and to contribute to research and dialogue on key economic, international relations issues, and security issues.

Asean LIP is an online platform that facilitates free, easy, and meaningful access to Southeast Asian legal information. It is an Access to Law initiative developed and promoted by the University of Malaya and Muttath Knowledge Management Services (MKMS) with the support of leading regional law schools and key stakeholders of the Asean legal, tax and business communities.

An intergovernmental organization that supports sustainable democracy worldwide.

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.

CEPAD focuses on community development in order to create sustainable and autonomous regional communities in Nicaragua.

Founded in 1974 at the University of Malaya by a group of Malaysians concerned about protecting the environment, EPSM works to prevent environment deterioration, control human activities, and increase public awareness.

It was formed by a group of concerned citizens committed to stopping all forms of corruption. It promotes transparency, accountability, and democratic principles.

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.

It has been working with Afghan refugees, non-Afghan asylum seekers, and IDPs to register them and providing them legal aid. It also works to promote human rights through education, seminars, lectures, symposium, training, workshops, mass media and print media.