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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee Afghanistan
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

The Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC) independently monitors and evaluates national and international efforts to fight corruption in Afghanistan. It reports to the public, Parliament, President, and international community.

Independent Jamaican Council for Human Rights (ICJHR) Jamaica
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to defend and uphold human rights in Jamaica, through policy advocacy and legal aid and representation to victims of human rights violations.

Independent Information Commission Liberia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

Government Body tasked with monitoring government compliance with human rights, and in particular with delivering effective access to information for citizens.

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Kenya
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It works to conduct free and fair elections and to institutionalize a sustainable electoral process. It is responsible for conducting or supervising referendums and elections to any elective body or office established by the Constitution.

Independent Commission for Transitional Justice Commission Indépendante pour la Justice Transitionnelle Tunisia
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Truth and justice commission set up to examine human rights abuses from the dictatorship and revolution and to seek reparations.

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Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

The governmental organization responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Constitution by the president, the executive, national assembly, judiciary, other governmental and non-governmental organizations. It also has the authority to issue legal opinions related to the consitution.

Independent Commission Against Corruption New South Wales Australia
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Founded in 1988 this federal commission is independent and not responsible to a Government Minister. It investigates allegations of corruption within local governments.

INDEM (Information Science for Democracy) Foundation, Altus Global Alliance Member International
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

NGO promoting the ideals and values of democracy through assistance in development of civil society and consultancy to Russian public officials and government bodies.

Impartial Imparsial Indonesia
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to reform the security sector and to abolish the death penalty, along with defending the rights of victims of abuse.

Immigrant Justice Corps United States
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Recruits talented lawyers and college graduates from around the country and partners them with New York's leading non-profit legal services providers and community-based organizations serving New York City, Long Island, Lower Hudson Valley and New Jersey.

IMAN Malaysia
Factor 5: Order and Security

IMAN aspires to provide reliable information concerning society, religion, and perception. Their work areas include ethno-religious relations, socio-political risk, and perception and public opinion, with projects such as Countering Violent Extremism and Community Resilience.

Imagine Africa Institute International
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Encouraging research, reflection and debate to feed public policy in Africa and about Africa through seminars, conferences and research/policy oriented dialogue and programmes.

Ilula Orphan Program - IOP Tanzania
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a Christian community-based service organization located in the Iringa Region of Tanzania. It manages over twenty programs, helping to support vulnerable children, empower women and impoverished communities, and the creation of financial and environmental sustainability.

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Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

iLaw advances freedom of expression, civil, and political rights in Thailand. It works to increase public awareness and generate debate on proposed new laws and sections of the forthcoming constitution that affect freedom of expression, civil, and political rights. It also monitors abuses of civil and political rights as well as abuses within the judicial system.

Ilab Liberia Liberia
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Ilab Liberia uses technology and information sharing in order to bind together branches of government and civil society for better emergency responses on critical situations and monitoring the development of regulatory framework for health and safety.

Igarapé Institute Instituto Igarapé Brazil
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works towards integrating the security, justice and development agendas of Brazil through research, advocacy, new technologies and project development aimed at improving citizen security, drug laws and peace.

IFI Watch Myanmar ?????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????? (??????????) Myanmar
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

It promotes a democratic space for civil society and communities to monitor the activities of International Financial Institutions in Myanmar. Its mission is to ensure that IFI's effectively implement policies of transparency, that communities participate in decision making processes, and that development finance guarantees environmental and human rights protections.

Ifakara Health Institute - IHI Tanzania
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) has been one of Africa’s most important health research organizations for the past 50 years. IHI conducts a wide range of health-related research, including biomedical and environmental studies, trials of drugs, vaccines and diagnostics, health-systems research, and monitoring and evaluation.

Idiriya International
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Founded in 2005, the mission of Idiriya is to protect vulnerable and disabled persons from unjust policies and discrimination.

Idheas - Strategic Litigation for Human Rights Idheas - Litigio Estrategico en Derechos Humanos Mexico
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Aims to use strategic litigation in order to produce systemic change on human rights issues in Mexico.

Ideas for Peace Foundation Fundación Ideas para la Paz Colombia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It generates knowledge and promotes initiatives for the construction of a stable and lasting peace in Colombia. It also seeks to contribute to understanding the struggles of the country, exercising the necessary leadership to mobilize citizens, public servants, and entrepreneurs around the common goal of building a society in peace.

IBON Foundation Philippines
Factor 3: Open Government

IBON Foundation is a research-education-information and advocacy organization  committed to serve the marginalized sectors. They seek to contribute to people's empowerment by generating and collecting socio-economic data and analyses, and disseminate these in the Philippines and abroad.

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.

I Paid a Bribe Nepal Nepal
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

An online portal where corruption encounters/escape are reported with an aim to uncover the market price of corruption.

I Paid a Bribe India
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

I Paid a Bribe is an initiative of an Indian NGO called Janaagraha to uncover the nature of bribery in India The website allows citizens to report bribes demanded by public officials and read about experiences to see where bribery occurs. The organization then reports the incident to the Media and Government Officials.