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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Environmental Advocacy Center El Centro de Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM) Panama
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It provides legal defense for the environment and the biodiversity of Panama. It encourages citizen participation through the dissemination of knowledge and the creation of networks to influence relevant decisions and policies concerning environmental justice.

Environment People Law (EPL) ???????? - ????? - ?????? (???) Ukraine
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

The organization works to inform citizens about their environmental rights, provide assistance and litigation if their rights are abused, and promote a rule of law approach to the environment and the conservation of natural resources.

Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (FARN) Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN) Argentina
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to promote protection of the environment through public policy influencing, diffusion of information and the respect for international and national treaties/laws.

Envirocare Tanzania
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Founded in 1993, it advocates for human rights, good governance and gender equality. One of their current projects is called "Tanzania Paralegal Remand Prisons and Retention Home Project," seeking to address the core problem of prison overcrowding. They also have projects in areas of the environment, biodiversity, and wealth creation.

Enrich Hong Kong Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Enrich works to promote the economic empowerment of migrant domestic workers through financial education workshops and personalized mentoring programs.

Enough Violence! ????? ?? Iran
Factor 5: Order and Security

Raising awareness on the nature of violence against women and the ways to decrease it.

Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation (EMReF) ?????????????????????????????????????? Myanmar
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It aims to create an independent research culture in Myanmar through the promotion of evidence-based policy making and access to data and information. Their current projects include research on access to justice (informal and customary justice systems) and qualitative monitoring of social and economic factors, to name a few.

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Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

EnLAW was founded in 2001 by a group of NGO's working in the environment, energy, human rights, and development sectors. It provides legal assistance to members and supports them to identify flaws in the legal system. It monitors and enhances the enforcement of laws that protect individuals and communities in the exercising of their legal environmental rights.

Enda Diapol Enda Diapol Senegal
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works on monitoring the electoral process, and created of the Situation Room to coordinate the activities of CSOs engaged in the electoral monitoring process.

End Child Prostitution and Trafficking Guatemala ECPAT Guatemala Guatemala
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

Founded in 2000, ECPAT Guatemala contributes to the elimination of sexual exploitation, human trafficking of children, adolescents, and women through prevention, attention, and advocacy programs.
WJP Program Grantee Title: Best Practices in Access to Justice for Children in Latin America (2011-2012)

End Child Detention Coalition Australia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

A coalition of organisations all over Australia fighting to end the detention of child immigrants in Australia via advocacy and policy reform.

Empower Malaysia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It works to advance equality, justice, democracy, and women's rights from a feminist perspective. It monitors the state's international commitments and participates in various reporting mechanisms of the United Nations.

Emirati Association of Lawyers and Jurists ????? ???????? ???????? ??????????? United Arab Emirates
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Supports the Emirati legal community by providing opportunities for local and international networking and information exchange, primarliy by producing and disseminating legal research, convening meetings, conferences and workshops on legal issues, and providing trainings to the legal community.

Emirates International Law Center ???? ???????? ?????? ??????? United Arab Emirates
Factor 3: Open Government

Strengthens the Emirati legal community by offering trainings, conferences, seminars as well as producing, translating, and disseminating legal research.

Emergency Rights Droits D'Urgence France
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Accompanies people in vulnerable situations in order to help them seek access to justice and protect their rights. It also trains lawyers and social workers.

Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania Tanzania
Factor 5: Order and Security

Their aim is pioneering, promoting, and advocating the development of emergency medicine in Tanzania. It is one of the leading emergency medical research pioneers in Tanzania.

Embrace Dignity South Africa
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Advocates for policy on prostitution and gives assistance and support to sex workers and victims of sex trafficking.

Electronic Voting Community Egypt
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

It is a platform that monitors elections at all levels of government. It allows citizens to register with their national identification numbers to vote, document violations, and have an access to election-related information. It was developed by Andalus Institute for Tolerance and Anti-violence Studies (AITAS).

Electoral Commission of South Africa South Africa
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to ensure free and fair elections through local, regional and national monitoring mechanisms.

Elections Observation Group Kenya
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Their areas of work include the monitoring and observation of electoral processes, regional cooperation for citizen election observation, among others. They aim to develop a strong network of members, that will entrench domestic observation, and inclusive governance in Kenya.

Election Watch Organization of Afghanistan (EWA) ? ????????? ? ????? ?? ?????? ??? ???? Afghanistan
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

EWA is an election monitoring organization, which also works to increase youth participation in the political process.

Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Pakistan
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

ECP is a governmental body that administers both federal and provincial elections in Pakistan.

Eidos Centre for Political Studies and Analysis ????? ?????????? ?????? ?? ????????? «?????» Ukraine
Factor 3: Open Government

The Centre seeks to influence state politics, public administration and the fight against corruption through research, educational initatives (High School of Politics) and public initiatives in Ukraine.

Egyption Trade Union Federation (ETUF) ??????? ????? ??????? ???? ??? Egypt
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

It is a federation of trade unions.

Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) ???????? ??????? ?????? ??????? Egypt
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has been working since 2002 to strengthen and protect basic rights and freedoms in Egypt, through research, advocacy and supporting litigation in the fields of civil liberties, economic and social rights, and 8. Criminal Justice.