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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) India
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

The objectives of the FATF are to set standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures for combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system.

It Gets Better Project United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to create platforms and education for LGBTQ youths to defend their rights and show them that it gets better through stories and testimonies from people who have overcome discrimination.

Open Alliance Nigeria Nigeria
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

It is comprised of a group of organizations seeking to promote good governance, transparency, and openness. They seek the public availability of government budget and financial records, and the achievement of an inclusive development and efficient service delivery.

Independent National Commission on Human Rights Liberia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to reconcile grievances from the war. Through its Palava Hut program, the INCHR uses traditional conflict resolution mechanisms to repair grievances and reconcile memories, consolidating the peacebuilding process.

Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Nepal
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

CIAA is a distinctive anti-corruption agency in South Asia simultaneously performing the roles of investigator, prosecutor as well as ombudsman--even if Nepal does not have an ombudsman per se. CIAA hears citizens' complaints and documents abuse of authority also.

Ethiopia Social Accountability Program Phase II Ethiopia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

It is an initiative to strengthen the use of social accountability tools, approaches, and mechanisms by citizens, civil society organizations, local government officials, and service providers. It is financed through a World Bank multi-donor trust fund.

Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York Law School Nepal
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Center for Human Rights and Global Justice works with Dalit groups and activists to advocate with Nepal's lawmakers to ensure that Nepal's new constitution complies with Nepal's international human rights law obligations and that the new constitution meaningfully protects and advances the rights and equality of Dalits.

PAMS Foundation Tanzania Tanzania
Factor 5: Order and Security

It helps to sustain and conserve biodiversity, wilderness, habitats, and ecological processes through actions that benefit nature and communities. Their work is based on ranger training and an intelligence-based approach to anti-poaching.

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Afghanistan
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 7: Civil Justice

In addition to its other activities, NRC has been advising Afghans on a wide range of legal matters, guiding them through legal processes and supporting them as they defend their legal rights within communities. It has been specifically working with women on their housing, land and property rights.

Citizen's Commission for Human Development (CCHD) Pakistan
Factor 3: Open Government

CCHD works to empower people to demand and shape better policies, express grievances, seek justice and hold leaders and private sector to account.

Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Works to provide interaction between civil society advocates and government on the development of public policy through consultation on the legislative process, drafting of bills and monitoring.

The institute of Peace Studies and International Relations Kenya
Factor 5: Order and Security

Founded in 2004, it aims to build a society respectful of human dignity, human rights, and justice. Its research is focused on peacebuilding, international relations, policy research, conflict monitoring, foreign policy analysis, and advocacy.

The Interfaith Cooperation Forum Hong Kong S.A.R., China, Cambodia
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

The ICF is based in Hong Kong and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is organized jointly by the Asia and Pacific Alliance of YMCAs (APAY), the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), and Bread for the World Germany. It supports an interfaith movement for justice and transformation and is focused on marginalized communities, confronting the root causes of violence, while promoting justice in the economic, political, and social spheres.

Major Organised Crime and Anti Corruption Agency Jamaica
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to eradicate corruption in Jamaica, in public office, but also through the tracking and prosecution of organized crime units.

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) Bangladesh
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to provide legal aid on civil, criminal and social justice to the most vulnerable along with using strategic litigiation to advance human rights in Bangladesh and trainings for lawyers and capacity building of the judicial system.

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.

Economic Policy Research Centre Uganda
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Seeks to better inform pubic policy through research to enhance economic development in Uganda

Musawah Malaysia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Founded in Kuala Lumpur in 2009, their aim is to promote equality and justice in Muslim families. It uses a holistic framework that integrates Islamic teachings, universal human rights, national constitutional guarantees of equality, and the lived experiences of women and men.

Youth Association for Development Pakistan
Factor 3: Open Government

Works to raise awareness on a variety of issues from democracy to security, to the environment and social and political participation, through research, training and participation.

Medical Action Myanmar - MAM Myanmar
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is a medical aid organization who provides quality basic healthcare services to the underprivileged through a network of clinics. Their areas of work include HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition, and family planning services.

International Justice Mission (IJM) - India India
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

International Justice Mission (IJM) is an international NGO working in India against sex trafficking and forced labor slavery. It partners with those working in the local justice system to help victims of violence. Its advocates work to bring criminals to justice and strengthen the justice system.

The Budget Advocacy Network Sierra Leone
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

It is a coalition of civil society organizations committed to monitoring budget policy, budget revenue, and budget allocations. It promotes the implementation of transparent and accountable budgeting systems as an essential tool for the achievement of social justice and equity in Sierra Leone.

Greater Rape Intervention Project (GRIP) South Africa
Factor 5: Order and Security

Provides assistance to rape victims through safepoints, a hotline, medical and psychological assistance in combination with government services.

Malawi Electoral Support Network Malawi
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to encourage civic participation through voter education, non partisan monitoring of elections. It has develop a capacity building program for tripartite elections with the help of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa.

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding India
Factor 5: Order and Security

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding empowers people divided by conflict to develop mutual understanding and to create sustainable peace. It innovates approaches for transforming conflict by supporting people in all sectors of society to discover their shared capacity for building peace.