Leading Organizations

Works to monitor and reform electoral processes to promote good governance, democracy, and human rights through election monitoring and civic education

A not for profit law and policy organization focusing on issues such as police power, government accountability, and indigenous disadvantage. Its strategies include: legal assitance, research, and community engagement.

Aims to strengthen women's political participation, inform institutions on gender inequality, and restore women's bodily integrity

CIICA is Pakistan's first international arbitration center that offers arbitration, mediation and a wide range of other dispute avoidance and resolution services.

Philippine Center on Transnational Crime is the national law enforcement agency which carries investigations beyond the borders of the Philippines on any crime which impacts the stability and security of the Philippines.

Founded in 1989, it is an association dedicated to the advocacy of civil rights, social justice, transparency, integrity, respect, gender equity, good governance, and accountability. It raises awareness of legal rights through media campaigns, and trains paralegals to serve in their communities.

81 NGOs working to improve and further education in Malawi, along with consolidating its network to uphold the Education for All Goal.

Works to promote democracy, through accountability mechanisms and the organization of dialogue between society and political actors.

Undertakes research on policy impact assessment and implement solutions on capacity strengthening for communities, especially disadvantaged communities, through surveys on transparency and governance.

Uses strategic litigation to advance the rights of Latino immigrants, and the Latino community in general for better education, health, work and social and economic life.

The AICAD links knowledge to application within communities in partner countries in Africa in order to reduce poverty through local program approaches.

It is a women’s rights organization that offers free legal aid in matters such as custody and maintenance, matrimonial disputes, discrimination in employment, participation in public positions, and sexual violence. FIDA also conducts education and advocacy programs, which impact structural, institutional, and legal reforms in Kenya.

It is a field-based organization with its regional headquarters in Tanzania (Tanzania People & Wildlife). It specializes in empowering and engaging local people in conservation and sustainable development projects. Its programs emphasize reducing conflicts with wildlife, wildlife-based income generation, environmental education and training, and sustainable community development.

Works to investigate environmental greens and hold companies accountable to environmental laws in Romania.

Works to develop new policy proposals through independent research on key topics such as worker rights, youths and national security, challenging established norms and mainstream media coverage.

Works to train legal practitioners and advance the rule of law through collaborative approaches and high level symposia such as JUSTRAC.

Judges working to promote the rights of women judges, women and children in the legal system in Malawi, and strengthening the accessibility of Malawi's legal system.

The organization works to strengthen the relationship between public decision making and social justice. Their main areas of work include transparency and participation in public finance management, poverty reduction, and rights enhancement.

MoHA is mainly responsible for delivering critical services to the citizens and maintain security in the nation. These functions are carried out by various offices in the region, districts, departments etc.

IHRDA has been working since 1998 to strengthen the African human rights system through offering pro bono legal counsel to victims of human rights abuses, conducting training workshops, and other capacity building activities for lawyers and other human rights defenders.

It contributes to the development of responsible tourism in Myanmar by raising awareness and facilitating informed choices for tourists, government, industry, and civil society.

Dream Thailand is a campaign of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom that promotes citizen participation and democracy among young people in different regions of Thailand. The initiative identifies the necessities of the population in economical, political, and environmental terms through workshops with community leaders, villagers, civil servants, and students.

It is a collaborative data journalism project that tracks donations made to politicians and parties. The team is comprised of journalists from Postmedia, developers from Qlik, and academics from the University of Toronto. Their goal is to provide an accessible search tool for contributions at the federal level, as well as in every province and territory.

It is a Pan-African organization that monitors performance throughout the governance chain and offers capacity building to elected representative governmental institutions as well as civil society organizations.

Works to assist prisoners on death row with financial and legal aid, to raise awareness of the disproportionate sentences imposed in Jamaica, and about widespread violence.