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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
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

Accountability Institute South Africa (AISA) South Africa
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Works to promote good standards on accountability for NGOs, government and business, in order to promote ethics and transparency.

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.

Voice Ghana Ghana
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Founded in 2002, the organization is managed and staffed by people with disabilities committed to the defense of their rights in Ghana. It promotes access to education and offers capacity building support for all groups and disabled people’s organizations at the grassroots level.

&PROUD Myanmar
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is an initiative of Colors Rainbow, YG, and Abadi Art. Their goal is to create a greater understanding and awareness concerning LGBT rights, as well as strengthening bonds within the community. They organize art and cultural events, such as film festivals and photography exhibitions.

Malawi Law Commission Malawi
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Set up in 1998 and enshrined in the Constitution of Malawi, the Commission makes recommendations about legal reform after consultation with civil society and the people of Malawi. It has made a number of succesful recommendations to develop civil and criminal justice in Malawi.

Network Movement for Youth and Children's Welfare - NMYCW-SL Sierra Leone
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It aspires to guarantee the needs and welfare of women and children through coordination with likeminded organizations, for the promotion and monitoring of human rights issues and poverty eradication.

Peace Management Initiative Western Jamaica
Factor 5: Order and Security

Works to reduce and eradicate violence in communities in Jamaica, along with detect, diffuse and prevent potentially violent situations in communities and build respect between communities and police.

International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) Nepal
Factor 3: Open Government

The IFEX network of organizations is connected by a shared commitment to defend and promote freedom of expression as a fundamental human right. IFEX has not only been a real watchdog but also has remained vocal when it comes to press freedom and security of the Nepalese journalists.

Saeed Ahmed Awan Centre for Improvement of Working Conditions & Environment (SAACIWCE) Pakistan
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

The Saeed Ahmed Awan Centre for Improvement of Working Conditions & Environment (SAACIWCE) Lahore is an institution in Pakistan providing professional services in the fields of occupational, safety, health and working environment.

The Association for Supporting the Prisoners (Central Chapter) Iran
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Offers Protection, Financial Assistance and Activities for Prisoners and their Families.

Federation of Nepali Journalists Nepal
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Representative body of more than 8,000 professional media persons working in all areas of modern media across Nepal. Seeks to promote and protect freedom of the press and expression, professional and physical security of the journalists and envisions a well-informed Nepali society.

Building Resilience Against Violent Extremism - BRAVE Kenya
Factor 5: Order and Security

It is the main initiative of the Center for Sustainable Conflict Resolution (CSCR). It seeks to generate public debate and dialogue by addressing violent extremism and terrorism with a strategy centered on ideological elements such as narratives and counter-narratives.

National Council for Law Reporting (Kenya Law) Kenya
Factor 3: Open Government

2019 World Justice Challenge Applicant - Project Title: Open Access to Public Legal Information Online Archive of the Kenya Gazettes
It provides universal access to Kenya’s public legal information, by monitoring and reporting on the development of jurisprudence for the promotion of the rule of law. It is a member of the Free Access to Law Movement.

The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) ensures that social reform is a continuous process that addresses the basic inequities in Philippine society, and that a policy environment conducive to social reform is actively pursued.

Anti Defamation League United States
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Seeks to combat discrimination against Jewish people and all other minorities, and to uphold the civil rights of all citizens.

Salimatou Foundation for Education - SaFE The Gambia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It promotes and advocates for the provision of accessible and affordable quality education for all. They work through mass awareness campaigns, advocacy and policy engagement and partnerships with governmental and non-governmental actors, including communities.

The Public and Private Development Centre - PPDC Nigeria
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

The organization was founded to increase citizen's participation in governance processes through programs that educate and mobilize them on behalf of integrity in governance. Some of their initiatives include Budeshi and the Nigeria Integrity Film Awards (Homevida).

Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA) International
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government

An international human rights organization dedicated to deterring torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world and advancing the rights of survivors to seek truth, justice and redress.

Bangladesh Women's Health Coalition (BWHC) Bangladesh
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Works to provide sexual and reproductive health services to women in Bangladesh and to advocate for these rights at the national level through consultations and partnerships.

Haq India
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Haq believes there is a need for the realisation of human rights of children through policy, law and action. Its aim is to look at the child in an integrated manner where every child's rights are recognised and promoted without discrimination and aims to explore areas of concern that affect children and their rights.

Malawi Revenue Authority Malawi
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Government body tasked with collecting taxes, but is also a leader on the Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism legislation implementation.

National Law College (NaLC) Nepal
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

NaLC was established with a mission to uplift legal education in Nepal. NaLC is affiliated with Tribhuvan University of Nepal. NaLC's aim is to create excellent legal professionals in the country by bestowing best teaching methods with multidisciplinary and rigorous approach.

Tanzania Private Sector Foundation Tanzania
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It promotes private sector-led social and economic development in Tanzania, as well as, effective engagement with the government of Tanzania and other stakeholders in matters of development policy and in the provision of services to its members.

Global Witness Afghanistan
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Global Witness is campaigning to break the link between Afghanistan’s natural resources and the conflict by 1) investigating and exposing the scale and nature of the problem, by 2) researching possible policy solutions, and by 3) working with the Afghan government and donors to put them into practice.