Partnership
for Transparency Fund, Washington DC
PTF is an international non-governmental organization dedicated to helping civil society play an effective role in the design, implementation and monitoring of national anti-corruption programs.
Public
Affairs Centre, Bangalore
Public Affairs Centre (PAC) is a not for profit organization, with a mandate to improve the quality of governance in India. The creation of PAC was perhaps the first civil society led institutional initiative to mobilize a demand for good governance in India. The focus of PAC is primarily in areas where citizens and civil society organizations can play a proactive role in improving governance.
AFFILIATED NETWORKS FOR SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY-SOUTH ASIA REGION
The Affiliated Networks for Social Accountability (ANSA) are an initiative to promote, strengthen and sustain social accountability knowledge and praxis globally. Social Accountability refers to the ways and means in which citizens can hold public institutions accountable in terms of delivering public services, improving people's welfare and protecting people's rights and entitlements. Funded by the World Bank Institute, currently there are three regional ANSA hubs – Africa, East Asia Pacific, and South Asia, as well as a Global Seed Fund component to promote ANSA in different regions.
Public
Affairs Foundation, Bangalore
The Public Affairs Foundation is a knowledge based service organization committed to improving the quality of governance by providing advisory support and customized knowledge products to a wide range of clients in the public arena.
This
is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United
Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed onto the Millennium
Declaration and
agreed to meet the "Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)." The
MDGs are an eight-point road map with measurable targets and
clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world's poorest
people. World leaders have agreed to achieve the MDGs by 2015.
It’s up to us to make sure leaders follow through on these
commitments. The "United Nations Millennium Campaign":
http://www.endpoverty2015.org supports and inspires people from
around the world to take action in support of the Millennium
Development Goals. Join the UN Millennium Campaign and be part
of the generation that puts an end to poverty.
Adobe Youth Voices aims to empower youth in underserved communities around the globe with real-world experiences and 21st century tools to communicate their ideas, exhibit their potential, and take action in their communities.
Launched in June 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is Adobe Foundation's global signature philanthropy program designed to provide youth in underserved communities with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large.
INDIA
CHAPTER
Transparency International India
Transparency International India (TII) is the accredited India chapter of Transparency International, an international civil society organization based at Berlin that has turned the fight against corruption into a worldwide movement. TII is part of the Asia Pacific forum comprising 20 nations that include China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Maldives and others. TII is a non-government, non-party and not-for-profit organization of Indian citizens with professional, social, industrial or academic experience seeking to promote transparent and ethical governance and to eradicate corruption.
VSO is the world’s leading independent international development organization that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries.
VSO's high-impact approach involves bringing people together to share skills, build capabilities, promote international understanding and action, and change lives to make the world a fairer place for all.
Credibility
Alliance is a consortium of voluntary
organizations committed towards enhancing accountability and
transparency in the voluntary sector through good governance. It
is an initiative that emerged from within the sector and was
registered in May 2004 as an independent, non - for - profit
organization after an extensive consultative process over a
period of two years involving thousands of voluntary
organizations all over India.\
LOCAL ORGANISATIONS
The
Orissa RTI Coalition – ‘Utha Orissa’ - comprises 15 coalition
NGOs and one RTI activist network. We are all actively involved
in empowering disadvantaged people to take up their rights and
mainstream Right to Information Clinics into their existing
activities. Whilst the Coalition has common objectives
different approaches are tailored to the needs of our programme
area and beneficiaries.
Orissa Soochana Adhikar Manch, Bhubaneswar, Orissa