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The ESEAP Regional Funds Committee was officially formed in August 2021, after an open call for applications (also on Diff). This was in line with the regional participatory grantmaking approach adopted as part of the 2020/2021 grants strategy relaunch.

To date, the ESEAP fund committee comprises 9 members based in Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, and Vietnam (more details on committee members).

Since inception, the ESEAP funds committee members have:

  • Completed at minimum 30 hours of learning to build shared knowledge on the history of grantmaking, regional opportunities, and explored equity, diversity and inclusion principles within the movement;
  • Collectively reviewed, evaluated grant proposals and participated in the decision making process for the Wikimedia Community Fund and previously Alliances Fund and Research Fund programmes;
  • Weighed in on regional budget allocations;
  • Provided feedback and reflected on the learnings after each annual cycle of review;
  • Took on the role of a resource person/ connector in supporting the access of information related to resourcing within the Wikimedia movement;
  • Participated at regional offline events such as the ESEAP Conference and ESEAP Strategy Summit.

After serving on the ESEAP Regional Funds Committee, members have also moved on to take on other roles within the regional or global Wikimedia movement such as (note: list is non-exhaustive):

Who is missing?

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We look to increase the size of the ESEAP Funds Committee and welcome applicants with wide ranging skill sets or experiences to join us (see also eligibility). These could include

  • experiences in thematic areas such as culture and heritage, gender, advocacy, youth engagements (i.e. multi-generational wikipedia) or organisational development in the region
  • New users or experienced contributors within the open knowledge ecosystem

We value diversity and encourage

  • young people (aged 18 and above), women, indigenous people, ethnic, cultural, gender minorities; and  
  • representatives based in geographies not currently represented on the committee to apply

How can I make a difference?

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  • As a Regional Funds Committee member, you will learn about the open knowledge ecosystem in up to 48 geographies in the ESEAP region through reviewing proposals, participating in deliberation discussions, and making funding decisions
  • With a total of 8 regional funds committees covering the global movement, there will be multiple opportunities for reflection, sharing and learning from other regional funds committees.
  • Your impact can be assessed through understanding the key learning questions and assessing metrics tracked at a project, region and global level
  • If English is not your working language, translation and interpretation support can be made available. Minimum level of functional English is recommended.

Note: Once appointed to the committee, the member will be working for the whole region not only from the community or the country that they are from.

What can I offer? And what is in it for me?

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We value your time, lived experience, curiosity and your voice.

There are generally two open grant calls per year for the General Support Fund Programme  around March/April and September/October. During these peak periods, you may spend on average 10 hours reviewing proposals and participating in deliberation calls. In a regular month, time investment would be 1-2 hours for learning journeys, committee check-ins, and asynchronous review of rapid fund grant applications etc.

To see, hear, observe, learn about the impact that the grants are making takes time, which is why this is at minimum a 2-year commitment and accumulates to 40-60 hours in a year across online meetings, peer learning discussions, individual reviews etc.

As a committee member, we look forward to your active participation during meetings and being intentional about completing asynchronous tasks needed for the deliberation process. Training and skills development opportunities and a token honorarium are also provided to committee members during their term.

I’m interested. What’s next?

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For interested applicants, please get in touch with the ESEAP Senior Programme Officer (Jacqueline Chen; jchen(_AT_)wikimedia.org) to share your intent and statement of interest. The deadline for application is 10 August 2025. We are accepting and reviewing applications on a rolling basis and are encouraging early submissions.

Statement of Interest

  • Tell us about yourself and why you want to join the ESEAP Funds Committee. Please consider responding to some of the questions below, but it is not necessary to respond to all of them in your application. Please keep your statement under 500 words.
    • Current participation in the Wikimedia movement or the Free Knowledge Ecosystem
    • How do you think you could contribute towards building the committees’ role and ways of working?
    • What would you do to make decision making more participatory?
    • What would you do so grantmaking can have a greater impact?
    • Why do you think the committee needs someone like you?
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