For your reference, you can find the Terms of Reference for the Steering Committee.
Additionally, here you can find the Steering Committee Meeting and Call Minutes.
TAP Network Steering Committee Members for the Term 2026-2027
– African Center of Excellence for Access to Justice (ACE-AJ)
– Asia Development Alliance (ADA)
– Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP)
– Forus
– Legal Empowerment Fund (LEF)
African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice
The African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice (ACE-AJ) is a continent-wide network of African civil society organizations working to promote access to justice, universal human rights, the rule of law and legal aid for marginalised and poor communities. As ACE-AJ strives to advance access to justice, human rights, and the rule of law across the African continent, our commitment extends to aligning our work with Sustainable Development Goal 16 and its “+” components. SDG 16 focuses on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies, ensuring access to justice for all, and building effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions. ACE-AJ’s initiatives directly contribute to SDG 16+ by advocating for comprehensive approaches to justice delivery, enhancing the quality and innovativeness of justice service delivery, and promoting ethical values within the justice sector. Our core objectives emphasize equitable, affordable, and culturally relevant access to justice, ensuring that the most vulnerable, marginalized, and excluded individuals have their rights protected.
o Website: https://accesstojustice.africa/about/
o TAP Partner Profile: https://tapnetwork2030.org/partner/the-african-centre-of-excellence-for-access-to-justice-ace-aj/
o Location: Africa Regional, Malawi
o Primary Representative: Leonie Mutoni (she/her)
o Secondary Representative: Clifford Msiska (he/him)
Asia Development Alliance
A groundbreaking regional network, the Asia Development Alliance (ADA), empowers civil society and is a catalyst for social change. It brings together 30 national CSO platforms representing over 10,000 organisations from South, South East, North East and Central Asia. ADA works to link development, democracy and human rights using SDG 16 Plus lenses, while also working on development finance, health, environment and Climate Governance and Voluntary National Review for Asia-Pacific. ADA has organized various official side events on SDG 16+ in the past 8 years and has been invited during regional forums and the global forums like High Level Political forum like SDG 16 Showcase, SDG 16 Forums, SDG summits and has worked with some member states (Timor Leste, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia to name a few). ADA has published various reports on shrinking civic space, policy coherence in sustainable development, in addition to leading SDG 16 working group during Civil 20, in India in 2023.
As an international CSO learning platform, ADA brings together and strengthens CSO networks at global, regional and national level through joint collaborative efforts on preparing advocacy reports on national VNR process, issues of policy coherence, climate change, producing a tool kit on CSOs engagement in the VNR process, national indicators for goal 16, global report on goal 16 based on national case studies in collaboration with the global platforms like the TAP Network.
o Website: https://ada2030.org/
o TAP Partner Profile: https://tapnetwork2030.org/partner/asia-development-alliance/
o Location: Asia Regional, Cambodia
o Primary Representative: Zia Ur Rehman (he/him)
o Secondary Representative: Jamila Asanova (she/her)
Alliance for Peacebuilding
The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) is a network of 200+ organizations working in 181 countries to prevent and reduce violent conflict, violence and fragility and build sustainable peace. AfP strives for a fundamental change in policies, development assistance, and collective action so that peacebuilding and conflict and atrocities prevention are the tools of first resort resulting in cutting the number of fragile states and violent conflict globally in half by 2035. Goal SDG16+ is critical to building and advancing the peacebuilding field and part of AfP’s work is to ensure this goal and the integration of SDG 16 across all the goals is successfully implemented.
o Website: https://www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/
o TAP Partner Profile: https://tapnetwork2030.org/partner/alliance-for-peacebuilding/
o Location: Global, United States
o Primary Representative: Nick Zuroski (he/him)
o Secondary Representative: Megan Corrado (she/her)
Forus
Forus is a global network of 72 National NGO Platforms and 7 Regional Coalitions, working to strengthen civil society’s role in advancing human rights, democratic governance, social justice and accountability. Our advocacy strongly aligns with SDG16+ and focuses on promoting inclusive governance, civic space protection, transparency, and participatory decision-making at national, regional and global levels. Forus supports its members to advocate for enabling environments for civil society, defend fundamental freedoms, influence public policy processes, and engage meaningfully in UN mechanisms such as the HLPF, the Summit of the Future, the SDG review architecture, and VNR processes. Our work emphasizes accountability, citizen participation, responsible institutions, and supporting civil society actors facing shrinking civic space. Through research, joint advocacy, and capacity strengthening, Forus advances a rights-based, inclusive and multi-stakeholder approach essential for achieving SDG16+.
o Website: https://www.forus-international.org/
o TAP Partner Profile: https://tapnetwork2030.org/partner/forus-2/
o Location: Global, France
o Primary Representative: Jyotsna Mohan-Singh (she/her)
o Secondary Representative: Marie L’Hostis (she/her)
Legal Empowerment Fund
o Website: https://legalempowermentfund.org/
o TAP Partner Profile: https://tapnetwork2030.org/partner/legal-empowerment-fund-lef/
o Location: Global, United States
o Primary Representative: Aimee Seligstein (she/her)
o Secondary Representative: Atieno Odhiambo (she/her)
MY World Mexico
o Website: https://www.myworldmexico.org/
o TAP Partner Profile: https://tapnetwork2030.org/partner/my-world-mexico/
o Location: Mexico
o Primary Representative: Karol Alejandra Arambula Carrillo (she/her)
o Secondary Representative: Lani Mireya Anaya Jiménez (she/her)