Leading Organizations

The CLCD is a resource center on leadership, citizenship and civil society, and democracy that uses its knowledge, expertise, skills, and resources to assist leaders, citizens, and civil society organizations enhance their capacities in performing their roles, duties and responsibilities.

It works in all 14 districts of the country, strengthening healthcare systems with an emphasis on adolescent sexual and reproductive health services.

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.

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

It was founded in 1998, in response to the social crisis triggered by the dramatic increase of human rights violation against children. IICP is the local partner of Anti-Corruption International, and it seeks collaboration between different organizations to fight corruption in Gambia.

It supports high-quality HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis care and treatment in Nigeria. They work with a family-focused approach aimed at increasing local ownership, funding effectiveness, and strengthening of local talent.

It coordinates advocacy efforts for their members for the promotion of peace, justice, and unity in Ethiopia, while also working with similar national and international associations.

A non-partisan think tank on national security and defense with the mission of representing public interest and holding governmental agencies accountable.

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.

A US not-for-profit organization that promotes the rule of law, civil society and economic development in transitional countries.

Works to legal aid services to people in need, and is involved in transforming Bangladesh's criminal justice system through legal aid training for paralegals in prisons and transforming laws for more restorative justice.

Works to defend freedom of speech and of the press through legal assistance, information and research and the release and assistance of emprisoned journalists.

AIDS Concern strives to lead social change by individuals, organizations, and society towards the achievement of triple zero, the prevention of the spread of HIV/AIDS, and the elimination of stigma for people living with HIV. It advocates for the rights of people living with HIV and for the legal rights of sexual and ethnic minorities.

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.

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

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

It is a non government organization that combines the efforts of law firms, academics, and other organizations to provide human rights training and to increase the accountability of Australia in protecting international human rights standards.

Works with local communities to advocate for sustainable natural resourse management

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

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 Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) is an independent quasi-regulatory, quasi-judicial body that helps ensure healthy competition between companies for the benefit of the economy.

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.

The Philippine Migrants Rights Watch (PMRW) is a registered civil society network that was established in 1995 to encourage the recognition, protection and fulfillment of Filipino migrants' rights - both in the Philippines and abroad during the entire migration proces.

Seeks to improve prisoner conditions by supplementing government efforts in the form of resources and advocating for reform