ABDI SURYANINGATI (Yenni) is Vice Director for Organizational Development and International Relations of YAPPIKA, an NGO pursuing democratic development and strengthening of civil society through supporting community based socio economic development initiatives and conducting provincial/national advocacy on democracy, that includes issues such as: human rights, governance, conflict management and pluralism. In doing this Yappika collaborates with provincial and national NGO Fora. She is responsible for Yappika's internal governance, public relation, research and publications, resource mobilizations, as well as, providing supports to increase Yappika's partners institutional capacity and expanding Yappika's international relations/networks. Aside of these tasks she often act as consultant for program development and institutional building for not-for-profit organizations and networks, and facilitators for strategic planning, program and financial management, and conflict management workshops for various NGOs. She was involved in producing a manual on integrating gender and environmental perspectives into program design to be used by Yappika partners and other NGO networks and is writing a book 'learning from experience: conducting research in conflict areas'. She is also an editor for a book, namely 'Assessing the Health of Civil Society: a Guide for Self-Assessment' that was inspired by the work of CIVICUS and Richard Holloway on the Civil Society Index. Through her work with the Civil Society Index, she is becoming an expert trainer and facilitator to use the perception-based Index to assess the 'health of civil society. At the national level, she was involved in various NGO coalitions, i.e: coalition on Foundation Bill, constitution reform, and transitional justice. Aside of that, her organization is producing 'a manual on criteria and principles of democratic local governance - tool for participatory assessment on local government performance to execute democracy' to be used by community organizations, NGOs and other interests groups in local areas. Through her work, she hopes to be able to increase local NGOs capacity in delivering services to marginalized communities and in participating in provincial/national policy dialogues. Her education background is in engineering but her work and interests are geared towards social movement.