The Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) – Indonesia

How this story represents an international-local faith partnership in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL):  Internationally operating German Protestant faith-based donor organisation. Coordination by national Islamic faith inspired organisation, partnerships with Muslim and Christian local faith actors in Indonesia.

The Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) is an Indonesian interfaith organization that has been working in the areas of peacebuilding, development, and humanitarian aid for 20 years.

From October 2017 to September 2020, AMAN implemented a project aimed at promoting gender justice from within an Islamic framework. The project ‘Amplifying the voices of interfaith women groups – asserting the values of gender justice, peace and tolerance in nation-building’ was run in six provinces of Indonesia (Jakarta, West Java, East Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta and Central Sulawesi).

AMAN has a designated Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DME) Manager who oversees the organisation’s MEAL work, which is informed by three principles.

  1.  A Result Mapping approach
  2. A participatory approach
  3. Appreciative Inquiry (AI)

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