MADANI Civil Society Support Initiative

On January 25, 2024, USAID-MADANI Civil Society Support Initiative held its closing event in Jakarta attended by project staffs, USAID and Government of Indonesia representatives, local, provincial and national partner organizations, local government champions as well as other relevant stakeholders.

On January 18, 2024, MADANI organized a talk show at the @america venue on “Civil Society Organizations’ Support for Strengthening Community-Level Primary Health Care.”

On December 12, 2023, the Regent of Sintang in West Kalimantan presented awards to former MADANI CSO partners Swandiri Inisiatif Sintang (SIS) and the Sintang Learning Forum FORSTAR during the 2023 CSR and CSO Awards evening.

On November 28, 2023, MADANI organized a hybrid knowledge sharing seminar, with 90 online and in-person participants, on the topic of gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) for local CSO partners.

On October 31, MADANI organized a hybrid seminar with around 80 participants, both online and in-person, on the topic of CSO resource mobilization with a focus on fundraising success stories from MADANI CSO partners.

The East Java Province Agency for Regional Development Planning (BAPPEDA) is supporting USAID MADANI in strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations at the provincial level.

To promote the sustainability of USAID-MADANI practices, MADANI’s former CSO partner in Serang (Banten), Aisyiyah Serang (Muhammadiyah’s women’s organization) is collaborating with the Banten provincial government and the provincial branch of the Women’s Organization Cooperation Agency (Badan Kerjasama Organisasi Wanita or BKOW) to promote MADANI’s Organizational Performance Index (OPI) to other women’s organizations in the province.

As part of a broader program to bolster the post-COVID economic recovery in the City of Madiun (East Java) in 2022, USAID MADANI’s CSO partner, Yayasan Bambu Nusantara (YBN), and the FORPEMMA Learning Forum piloted an initiative to support food vendor stalls in two urban neighborhoods.