In this talk, we present a novel approach for solving the Monge-Ampere (MA) equation defined on a sphere. Specifically, we extend the MA equation on a sphere to a narrowband around the sphere by formulating an equivalent optimal transport problem. We demonstrate that the extended MA equation can be solved using existing algorithms developed for the MA equation on Euclidean space, making the resulting algorithm simple and easy to implement. Our approach provides a useful tool for solving problems that involve the MA equation defined on or near a sphere, which has a wide range of applications in fields such as computer graphics, image processing, and fluid dynamics.