Organization Name | Organization Name (Local Language) | Country | Factors | Organization Description |
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Anza Entrepreneurs | Tanzania |
Factor 3: Open Government
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Anza supports businesses in Tanzania with strategic consulting, business training, affordable capital and access to a network of experts. In 2015, they launched the largest co-working space in Tanzania (Kili Hub) that enables social impact organizations and businesses to work together. |
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Advocacy Forum (AF) | Nepal |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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AF is working to promote the rule of law and upholds international human rights standards in Nepal. The core area of AF's work includes human rights advocacy. AF is actively confronting the deeply entrenched culture of impunity in Nepal. |
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Kenya Association of Manufacturers - KAM | Kenya |
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
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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. |
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Online RTI | India |
Factor 3: Open Government
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Online RTI allows one to file RTI in any government or public department, by filling up the details online.. |
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Cordaid | Sierra Leone |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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It works in all 14 districts of the country, strengthening healthcare systems with an emphasis on adolescent sexual and reproductive health services. |
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Anti-Corruption Front | Sri Lanka |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government
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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. |
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Citizens' Network for a Better Malaysia - CNBM | Malaysia |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
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CNBM is the advocacy project of Community Excel Services. It raises awareness and provides a platform for policy action and societal transformation. Their areas of work include elections, poverty, good governance and anti-corruption, and the rights of indigenous communities. |
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National Forum of People Living with HIV/AIDS Networks in Uganda (NAFOPHANU) | Uganda |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
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Aims to give those with HIV/AIDs a productive life in a sustainable way by providing services, peer support, and advocacy |
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East-West Management Institute (EWMI) | International |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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A US not-for-profit organization that promotes the rule of law, civil society and economic development in transitional countries. |
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South African Business Coalition on Health and AIDS (SABCOHA) | South Africa |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Coalition of businesses working to organize a response to HIV/AIDS and public health issues inside and outside the workplace. |
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Canadian Prison Consulting | Canada |
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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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. |
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Our Spaces - A Nation in Concert | Singapore |
Factor 7: Civil Justice
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Works to create theatre, dance and art performances in conjunction with activitsts and NGOs, to advocate for socia justice on specific topics. |
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National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty | United States |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Seeks to end poverty and redress human dignity, provide education for children living in poverty or homelessness and the basic right to shelter. |
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People's Watch | India |
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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People's Watch is a Program Unit of the Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns. It's mission is to protect human rights through monitoring human rights violations, intervention and building solidarity with peoples struggle for human rights. |
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Liberty Asia | Hong Kong S.A.R., China |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) | Liberia |
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
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Works to involve citizens in the allocation and operation of resource exploitation, through control of industries and governance, and to provide a framework for sustainable resource exploitation in Liberia. |
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The Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in the Greater Mekong Subregion - DEPDC/GMS | Thailand |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
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DEPDC/GMS has been working for 25 years to protect children and youth from being trafficked into exploitative labor conditions. Its mission is to help the most at-risk children and their families and communities in order to decrease the conditions and factors that make them vulnerable to trafficking. |
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Alliance for Community Action | Zambia |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
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Empowers citizens to demand accountability with regards to public funds and encourages the media to fulfill its watchdog role |
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Catholic Relief Services - CRS | The Gambia |
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
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CRS was founded in The Gambia in 1964. Their work encompasses urban and rural capacity building, agricultural development, microfinance, health and nutrition, malaria control, adult literacy and numeracy skills programs, and Aids/HIV advisory. |
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The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) | Nigeria |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Founded in 2014, it promotes independent media through journalism, open data, and technology to advance human rights, good governance, and accountability in West Africa. |
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Walk Free Foundation | International |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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This initiative provides the information and capabilities required for countries to defeat modern slavery in their jurisdictions through quality research and business/government/NGO collaborations. |
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Women in Law and Development in Africa - WiLDAF | Ghana |
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice
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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. |
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Ateneo Human Rights Center | Philippines |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Works to defend human rights through strategic litigation, research, adovacy and legal reform. |
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Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development - ECDD | Ethiopia |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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It promotes and facilitates disability inclusive development, economic empowerment, and the improvement of healthcare and educational services. It fosters the inclusion of disability issues and persons with disabilities in mainstream government and non-governmental service delivery and development programs. |
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Tangible Initiatives for Local Development | Tanzania |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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It strives to contribute to local development in Tanzania. Their programs are divided into two sectors: programs that change practices (i.e. Mama Yangu Maisha Yangu Campaign -My Mother my life Campaign- and Vijana na maendeleo), and programs that contribute to laws and policies (i.e. Proposed reforms on the Law of the Marriage Act.). |