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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Good Governance (GoGo) Foundation Nepal
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

The Foundation seeks to promote good governance, anticorruption, quality public service delivery, right to information, consumer rights, and social accountability by creating an informed citizenship, and by making the state and its governance process accountable, transparent, and participatory.

Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Nationwide network of legal practitioners working to monitor elections to ensure that they are free and fair.

Ni Sisi! Kenya
Factor 5: Order and Security

Their program Online Engagement includes the following themes: ethnicity, land and inequality, leadership accountability, corruption, impunity, devolution, justice and promoting nationhood, and security. It has conducted projects like Sauti Yetu Debates, to encourage people to exercise their democratic rights through accountability forums with elected officials.

Liku Worku Law Office Ethiopia
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It offers legal services in areas such as commercial law, labor law, and dispute resolution, among others. It is known for its contributions to the free access website Abyssinia Law.

Sonke Gender Justice South Africa
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Promotes gender justice and works to reduce domestic and sexual abuse and to protect and promote access to health and rights for people with HIV/AIDS.

Lebanese Development Network Lebanon
Factor 3: Open Government

Works to support NGOs through training and development, along with raising civic awareness and strengthening democracy in Lebanon.

The Commission for the Prevention of Corruption Jamaica
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Works to collect information, investigate cases and prevent corruption within government services.

WE CAN Campaign Bangladesh
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to end domestic violence in Bangladesh through a network of Changemakers, dissemination of behavorial change, media and advocacy campaigns.

Africa Centre for Energy and Mineral Policy Uganda
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Advocates for equity, good governnace, and shared benefits in the exploitation of mineral and petrolium resources to further sustainable development

Future Hope Foundation Uganda Uganda
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Promotes equal treatment and wellbeaing of marginalized youth through job creation, health care projects, and education

ACCEPT Romania
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to defend the rights of the LGBTI community in Romania, through policy recommendations, lobbying and strategic litigation.

Border Angels United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Provides educational approaches to understanding immigration and free legal assistance to the San Diego county immigration population.

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.

Think Young Women - TYW The Gambia The Gambia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Founded in 2010, it aims to address issues affecting young women by building their skills and strengthening their voices to create more impact and support for achieving women’s rights.

Initiative for the Americas Fund (FIAES) El Salvador
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to protect and regulate environmental conservation in El Salvador through public and private funds and experts

One Family People Sierra Leone
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It works to create an inclusive society for individuals with disabilities, implementing programs to improve their health, quality of lives, and well-being, in collaboration with their families and communities.

Lawyers for Liberty Malaysia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is a human rights and law reform initiative that challenges unconstitutional decisions and acts perpetrated by the government. Their work addresses issues related to prisoners' rights, policies that perpetuate statelessness, and death in the custody of the police, to name a few.

AIDS Concern Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

AIDS Concern strives to lead social change by individuals, organizations, and society towards the achievement of triple zero, the prevention of the spread of HIV/AIDS, and the elimination of stigma for people living with HIV. It advocates for the rights of people living with HIV and for the legal rights of sexual and ethnic minorities.

CEELI Institute International
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

CEELI works to advance the rule of law around the world, through training and skills development, professional conferences and exchanges along with programs to uphold and strengthen critical components of the rule of law. 

Jubilee Institute Zambia Zambia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Empowers churches and communities to fight poverty and improve lives of those living with HIV/AIDS

ASCHIANA Afghanistan
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

ASCHIANA is an Afghan NGO that works to improve children's rights by providing services and support to street working children and their families.

Sunlight Foundation United States
Factor 3: Open Government

Seeks to use technology in order to push for more democratic participation in the accountability process, and provide platforms for access to information.

Overseas Development Institute International
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

The Institute seeks to strengthen countries through policy and practice and public/private partnerships for their development and the alleviation of poverty.

Centre for Youth & Children Affairs Malawi
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Central Region centre for children's rights. They work on a broad set of issues, from forced marriage to access to education and HIV, and have set up a helplinef for victims.

Society for Human Rights and Prisoners' Aid (SHARP) Pakistan
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It has been working with Afghan refugees, non-Afghan asylum seekers, and IDPs to register them and providing them legal aid. It also works to promote human rights through education, seminars, lectures, symposium, training, workshops, mass media and print media.