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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Transparency International Australia Australia
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Works to increase transparency across the board, including within independent organizations and the government. Its main goal is to identify and eliminate corruption corruption in Australia in the private and public sector.

Transparency International Bangladesh Bangladesh
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to prevent and fight corruption, especially through its Young Professionals against Corruption program; and fosters civic engagement through various local and rural initiatives, and drives policy and integrity around climate and water governance in Bangladesh.

Judicial Service Commission of Uganda Uganda

Created in 1995 to recruit judicial officers and regulate their conduct to improve effectiveness of justice administration

Africa Youth Empowerment in Agriculture and Industrial Development - AYEAID Nigeria
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It seeks to lessen unemployment rates in Africa through agricultural and industrial initiatives. Specifically, it aims to empower young people through sustainable agricultural programs.

Majlis India
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

They are an organization that uses youth volunteers to teach underprivileged children.

Mélida Anaya Montes Movement El Salvador
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Through trainings, workshops, psychological and legal assistance, Las Melidas defend and empower women to promote equality and the end of gender violence

Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) Singapore
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Sets the standards for transparency and tax declaration of business in Singapore.

Legal Services Corporation United States
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Provides grants to legal aid services nationwide in order to ensure high quality civic aid to low income individuals.

Code for Ghana Ghana
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

Using open data and technology to promote effective governance, it assembles software developers and civil society activists that use their knowledge to achieve transparency and citizen engagement. Their programs include, GotToVote, Odenkro, and Where My Money Dey.

Citizen Voice Pakistan
Factor 3: Open Government

Citizen Voice is a civil society organization that works to empower women and children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan to acitively engage is social life.

Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Philippines
Factor 3: Open Government

The Philippine Information Agency (PIA) directly serves the Presidency and the Executive Branch on the national, regional and provincial levels through its sixteen (16) regional offices and seventy-one (71) provincial information centers.

Human Rights Advocacy Centre (HRAC) Ghana
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

HRAC mission is the protection and promotion of the rights of all Ghanaians through increasing awareness, fostering a sustainable human rights culture, and enhancing democracy, good governance, and accountability.

Bonavero Institute of Human Rights International
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

The Institute seeks to provide excellent research and expand the understanding of human rights beyond academia through collaboration with practitioners and scholars.

International Commission of Jurists - ICJ Kenya Kenya
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is the Kenyan Section of the ICJ. It promotes human rights, justice, and democracy in Kenya and around Africa through the application of legal expertise and international best practices. Founded in 1959, ICJ Kenya is the oldest human rights organization in Kenya.

Nepalese Army (NA) Nepal
Factor 5: Order and Security

NA has its own military intelligence unit and it serves as the third layer for maintaining security in the country.

Peace Coalition of Northeast India (PCNI) India
Factor 3: Open Government

Peace Coalition of Northeast India (PCNI), a unit of the NGO Pro Rural is a network of organizations, institutions, departments and individuals working for peace and communal harmony in North-east India. PCNI focuses on capacity building of community leaders, peace workers, mediators and negotiators.

Citizens United to Promote Peace and Democracy in Liberia (CUPPADL) Liberia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Works to involve citizens in the decision making process at the national, regional and local level in order to ensure the day to day operation of democracy and to fight corruption in politics and society.

Media Institute of Southern Africa Zambia Zambia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

Conducts media monitoring to identify incidents of censorhip and publicize free speech violations, while also reporting on elections

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.

P.R.I.M.E Finance International
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

A dispute resolution and judicial capacity building entity for complex financial disputes that is based in The Hague and affiliated with the Permanent Court of Arbitration. 

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.

Occupational Care South Africa (OCSA) South Africa
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works alongside businesses in order to improve the health and wellbeing of employees, and produces risk assessment reports and workplace safety guidelines.

Action for Development (Acfode) Uganda
Factor 7: Civil Justice

An indigenous women's organization which empowers gender equality and female participation in legislation

Directorate for Ethics and Integrity Uganda
Factor 5: Order and Security

Created in 1988 to address corruption in Uganda, it provides political leadership and develops policies to promote ethics and integrity in the Ugandan government

Ethiopia Human Rights Project Kenya
Factor 3: Open Government

It works towards a democratic political system, where human rights and fundamental freedoms are respected through advocacy, exchange of probative research, and the sharing of critical information.