Grants:Programs/Organizer Lab/Wiki for the sustainable climate in Burundi
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Gilbert Ndihokubwayo
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Gilbert Ndihokubwayo, NIYUHIRE Octavie, Ferdinand IF99, Richard NIHEREWINIMANA
- Organization
N/A
- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
Yes, I am a member of groups: Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi, Esperanto kaj Libera Scio, Wikipedia and Education User Group, East African Regional and Thematic Hub (EARTH).
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki for the sustainable climate in Burundi
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The proposal is important as it aims to awaken and educate Burundians to safeguard the climate environment in order to guarantee good conditions for a sanitary environment. My community will benefit from the right information on what to do in order to address the climate change and know how to do it correctly.
Burundi has experienced problems related to climate change. We have observed, facts such as changes in annual precipitations, in seasonal precipitation patterns, and in annual air temperatures. In 2018, it has been launched a campaign "Ewe Burundi Urambaye", consisting in planting trees throughout the Burundian territory in order to reforest and give an image of good air to the country. Initiatives such as reforestation, environmental protection, cannot make an impact if the audience is not aware of it and is not educated in this way.
Consequences resulting from human behavior and activities such as deforestation, bush fires, floods during heavy rains have been the causes of damage, often enormous, humans and livestock diseases, loss of human life, loss of movable and immovable materials, degradation of arable land. Climate change poses a very serious threat to Burundi, hence the need to address the cumulative risks arising from the worsening effects of climate change, such as the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and natural disasters, the rising lake water levels, floods, heat waves, droughts, desertification, water shortages.
In Burundi, the water and soil resources, essential for the economic and social development of the country, are today subject to strong pressures linked to the growth of the population, the overexploitation of the land and the growing demand for natural resources. Climate change and increasing climate variability add to these trends and further degrade the availability and quality of water and arable land.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
In order to achieve the changes we want within this proposal, the main approaches we plan to focus on will be:
Recruitment: We will need participants in our project, and to have them we will resort to recruiting participants through notices and project publication. We will then invite actual and new editors, academicians and non-academicians to participate in our project.
Partnership: We will establish collaborations with stakeholders in the domain of Climate change and sustainability, academicians in the domain of Climate change and sustainability, the aim being to associate knowledge and efforts for the realization of our project.
Communication and awareness: We will need to publicize our project to the targeted audience. This will require us to use communication channels to inform the project to our audience, postings on communication boards at selected universities.
Training and capacity building: To provide participants with knowledge related to Climate change and sustainability, we will organize training sessions for participants. We will then organize training sessions and editathons to skill our participants with knowledge on how they will contribute to the project.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
As part of the approaches and / or strategies related to our project, and in order to make our project known to the audience of the project, we plan to establish information releases through various media and communication channels for awareness and sensitization.
We are going to set up a registration tool to allow interested parties to register to participate in our project. We will then invite people to participate in the project while considering gender, geographic and religious inclusion. The goal of inclusion is to promote the participatory approach of the different layers of our audience so that they feel involved and benefit from the project. When recruiting participants for our project, we will think of academicians in the field of Climate change and sustainability who are more interested in subjects related to their field of academic training. We will also think of media professionals who will help us relay information; photography professionals to contribute with images related to our topic. The activities will be implemented by a group of people who will share tasks according to experiences and functions to meet the demands of our project. We will establish partnerships with stakeholders in the field of Climate change and sustainability through exchange contacts and correspondence to talk about our project, the contributions and interests that the project will bring to the Burundian community. We will organize training sessions to participants registered to partake in our project in order to share with the participants the skills in the field of Climate change and sustainability, trainings related to climate change and sustainability, training on the contribution on Wikimedia pages, mainly Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, show our participants how to contribute to our project. The training sessions will be both in person and online. We also plan mentoring sessions to support our participants to adress possible issues within their editings.
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Wikiforhumanrights, Africa Knowledge Initiative
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes, I have a team needed to implement the project. The team is built as following:
Gilbert Ndihokubwayo (User: Gilbert Ndihokubwayo): Project leader, Organizer trained in Climate change and sustainability. He is also a certified trainer of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom. He has organized Wikimedia events in Burundi such as Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Africa Wiki Challenge, Awareness, Editathons. In this project, he will lead the overall project development and implementation activities, reporting on progress and status of the campaign. He will be in charge of planning, establishing partnerships, facilitating in person and virtual training sessions and mentoring activities. He will also lead needs assessment and post-program evaluation, and create an evaluation report.
Ferdinand Irankunda (User Ferdinand IF99): Co-organizer, volunteer, is a wikimedian who has organized and participated in Wikimedia events organized in Burundi. He will support the training sessions, help to conduct surveys and moderate the online forums. His role is to mobilize people around the project, co-train interested in participating in the project.
Adronis Mbazumutima: Design and Communications specialist, volunteer, is a wikimedian who has participated in organizing Wikimedia events in Burundi. He is a communication academician with training in environmental skills. In this project, he will help to create pieces for participants' outreach: social media posts, correspondences, to help to register the target number of participants, Scheduling posts for social media, to invite participants to organized training sessions, to mentoring sessions through the internal communication channels.
Octavie Niyuhire (User: NIYUHIRE Octavie): She is a burundian wikimedian. In this project, she will be in charge of logistics.
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Geography, Language, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
Through this project, we will develop knowledge on Climate change and sustainability on Wikimedia pages. This knowledge will be made available for the Burundian community. The activities that will be developed during the implementation of our project will be beneficial to the Wikimedia community of Burundi to retain and train current contributors as well as to recruit new ones. This will bridge the knowledge gap; reduce existing bias about using Wikipedia as an open educational resource.
- 7. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 8. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?
Actual wikimedians or newbies will be invited to take part in the project. We will mainly focus on inviting and encouraging professionals in the field of environmental skills, Climate change and sustainability skills, to massively participate in the project. These are principally the students from Universities in Burundi, studying faculties in environmental skills, climate change and sustainability. Before and during the activities, we will engage the participants through the communication, organization of meetings, training and mentoring sessions and social media groups to keep in touch with participants as for interacting whenever needed. In order to follow up with the participants after the activities, we will create a communication channel with the participants in order to keep contact with them. We hope to create a Facebook channel to advertise about our project implementation in Burundi, a telegram and/or a WhatsApp group for our internal communications. During the project implementation, online meetings (zoom) will be organized and invites will be shared through our internal communication channels for mentors to the participating contributors, responding to answers and resolving issues participant may have. Within the organizing team, a person in charge of communication will deal with the invitations in the channels of communication.
- 9. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants according to the WMF’s friendly space policy and the universal code of conduct that will be briefed to participants during the organized trainings. During our interactions in created social media groups, we will be reminding the participants of the WMF’s friendly space policy and universal code of conduct as important within our space and project.
- 10. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
The Wikimedia User Group Burundi will be informed via the community metapage and the already existing internal communication channels (Whatsapp and Facebook). I will invite the community members to discuss together about the project implementation and design together the project process and needs, tools for the project, and to make a common view of the roles and tasks for each one.
We will also use information posters to advertise and call for new contributors; we will use social media and internal communication channels to advertise the project and mobilize participants.
- 11. Are you aware of other Organiser Lab proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
Yes
If yes:
- 11.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- No
- 11.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- There is no other Organizer Lab proposal in my community focusing on climate change and sustainability.
- 12. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
Yes
- 12.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
Our project will be of interest for actors in the field of environment, climate change and sustainability. We plan then to partner with Universities and institutions within faculties in environment, climate change and sustainability, among other universities, the University of Burundi, Lake Tanganyika University, Light University of Bujumbura, Hope Africa University, etc. We will also partner with IGEBU, the Burundian institute of geography, and with the Burundian Office for Environmental Protection (OBPE), and media (journalists) involved in related topic.
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 13. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
If I have created the change that I wanted and that my strategies worked, I hope to learn from my work in this proposal the following:
- 1. What will our audience benefit from the project?
- 2. What is the appreciation of our audience to the contributions of the project?
- 3. What will motivate project participants to continue contributing after the campaign? What are the difficulties encountered by participants when contributing to the project?
- 4. What will our community members benefit from implementing the project?
- 5. How many new recruits remain committed to contributing to Wikimedia projects?
- 6. What are the skills acquired by new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
- 7. What are the skills developed by existing contributors to Wikimedia projects?
- 14. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to Filling out your main metrics.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Capacity building, skills strengthening | The number of participants who are educated and strengthened in editing and creating Wikipedia articles with topics related to climate change and sustainability. | 100 |
| Awareness and education | The number of new contributors recruited within the project campaign and educated in editing and creating Wikipedia articles with topics related to climate change and sustainability. | 60 |
| Partnership | Collaboration with stakeholders in the field of climate change and sustainability with the purpose of having some resources. | 4 |
| Engagement | Number of participants still committed to contribute to edit and/or create articles on Wikimedia pages after the campaign. | 95 |
| Wikipedia content | The quantity of the Burundi related climate change topics with contributions during the campaign. | 3000 |
- 15. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of existing wikimedians and new recruits: academicians and others enrolled to participate in the campaign activities. | 100 |
| Number of editors | Participants enriching Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Wikimedia commons): editing articles, creating or improving content on Wikipedia within the project: Wiki for the sustainable climate in Burundi. | 80 |
| Number of organizers | Project members with roles to accomplish in order to make the project implementation successful. | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | The project participants will create and improve articles relating to climate change on Wikipedia. | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Photos related to climate change and sustainability will be uploaded on Wikimedia commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | Content related to climate change and sustainability will be created and improved on Wikidata | 50 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 16. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
In order to measure metrics, I will use the Program&Event Dasboard, the Capturing 3 stories about the use of the content on Wikimedia pages, a survey during and after the activities.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 17. & 17.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
27444480 BIF
- 18. What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
13440 USD
- 19. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tAhh5pMxs7_k3_d9xO1waySWz69THIZWkvuOcrGijoY/edit#gid=0
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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