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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority ?????? ?????? ??????? ??????? ??????? Egypt
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

The Authority is responsible for supervising and regulating non-banking financial markets and instruments, including the Capital Market, the Exchange, all activities related to Insurance Services, Mortgage Finance, Financial Leasing, Factoring and Securitization.

Egyptian Center for Economic & Social Rights (ECESR) ?????? ?????? ?????? ?????????? ??????????? Egypt
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It works through litigation, research, data providing and campaigning to protect economic and social rights. It has filed many cases that were cornerstones to the public discourse, such as the national minimum wage case, the expropriation for public utility case, and many cases related to the corrupt privatization deals of public property.

Egypt Justice Project Egypt
Factor 3: Open Government

The Egypt Justice Project has two objectives. The first is to engage in an ongoing project of serious study of the Egyptian judiciary and its jurisprudence, with all its rich history and currents and crosscurrents. The second is to educate to help close the gap between popular perception and reality regarding the Egyptian judiciary, and to open up English language access to the Egyptian judiciary's jurisprudence.

Egypt Foundation for Youth and Development ????? ??? ?????? ???????? Egypt
Factor 3: Open Government

It works to raise awareness, and empower youth to be more socially engaged.

Egalitarian Venezuela Civil Association Asociación Civil Venezuela Igualitaria Venezuela
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Founded in 2012 to combat discrimination based on sexual and gender orientation, it disseminates information, provides training, and raises awareness concerning the right of equal treatment. It also undertakes communication campaigns and offers legal counseling in cases of discrimination

Efficient Congress Alliance Alianza por un Congreso Eficiente Guatemala
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government

The Efficient Congress Alliance is comprised of six organizations that work to design, propose, and disseminate an tool to evaluate Congress and its members. It promotes transparency, accountability, and efficiency.

Education and Information Center for Child Rights (KKSP) Pusat Pendidikan dan Informasi Hak Anak (KKSP) Indonesia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to protect and uphold the rights of children and to bring them justice.

Education and Citizenship Educación y Ciudadania Mexico
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Works to train youths in civic participation and to monitor government bodies dedicate to human rights, through democratic participation.

Eduardo Morgan Foundation La Fundación Eduardo Morgan - Fundamorgan Panama
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It is an initiative of the Panamanian law firm Morgan & Morgan. It offers Pro bono services for local NGO's and free legal services and representation in family disputes and domestic violence cases to individuals with low incomes. It also educates for the prevention of domestic violence through workshops and through the dissemination of information.

EcoPeace Middle East ?????????? ????? ?????? Jordan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Facilitates collaboration amongst Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists to promote joint environmental protection efforts.

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Project, A.C. Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales Mexico
Factor 7: Civil Justice

NGO working to defend the economic, social and cultural rights of people in Mexico. It works closely with unions, citizen groups and communities in order to help them design and implement their projects for social justice.

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

Economic and Social Research Foundation Tanzania
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

It works in advancing knowledge to public and private sector entities through sound policy research findings, capacity development, and by advocating good development management practices. They implemented the initiative Tanzania Online, an online corruption forum.

Ecological Voices Collective Colectivo Voces Ecológicas - COVEC Panama
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It is a political ecological organization that advances and defends the social and environmental rights of rural communities in Panama through popular education and alternative communication.

Ecological Alert Recovery Thailand - EARTH Thailand
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
EcoKnights Malaysia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It provides environmental interventions to communities, government agencies, learning institutes, and private companies. Utilizing a collaborative perspective, it works across transdisciplinary fields and builds partnerships such as the Eco Film Festival.

Ecojustice Canada
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Ecojustice legally defends nature, combats climate change, and fights for a healthy environment for all. It provides free legal representation through their Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Ottawa.

Echoes of Women in Africa - ECOWA Nigeria
Factor 5: Order and Security

Founded in 2010, it works to promote peace and security for African women and girls through the engagement of stakeholders in the monitoring of regional and national policies for the protection of their rights. They work principally in the context of conflict and peace building processes .

Ebola Survivor Corps Sierra Leone
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It supports Ebola survivors by building resilient communities and advocating for the improvement of health services. It develops strong partnerships with existing governmental and private public health structures.

East-West Management Institute (EWMI) International
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

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

East Africa Law Society Tanzania
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It was founded in 1995 in Arusha city, it is the premier Bar Association in the East African Region. It seeks the promotion of constitutionalism, democracy and good governance, the rule of law and the advancement, promotion, and protection of human rights of all people in East Africa and beyond.

Earuyan Solutions Ethiopia
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a social justice and impact driven feminist social enterprise that supports organizations and individuals in the promotion of gender equality and transformative feminist leadership through tailor-made workshops, seminars, research, and project/program design.

Earth, Work and Citizenship Institute (ITTC) Instituto Terra, Trabalho e Cidadania (ITTC) Brazil
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to reduce incarceration and improve conditions of imprisoned persons in Brazil, focusing especially on women, and on gender equality in society through research, civil society training and support, and public policy advocacy.

Earth Justice United States
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Fights for a world free of the disastrous effects of climate change and environmental degradation, and leads conservations efforts.

E+ Initiative ?????????? ?+ Ukraine
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to provide rehabiliation services for people affected by the Maidan revolution and the Russian invasion in Crimea, along with litigation in cases of human rights abuses and human rights information campaigns.