Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda General Support Fund 2024

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Applicant information[edit]

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required): Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda Ltd.

Do you have any approved General Support Fund requests? (required): Yes, I have already applied and received a General Support Fund

You are applying as a(n). (required): Wikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

Are your group or organization legally registered in your country? (required): Yes

Do you have a fiscal sponsor?: No

Fiscal organization name.: N/A

Main proposal[edit]

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda General Support Fund 2024

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year funding or renewal process? (required): No but we would like to apply for multi-year funding next time

2.1. For how many years of multi-year funding are you applying? (required): N/A

2.2. Provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan? (required)

N/A

3. Proposed start date. (required): 2024-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2024-12-31

5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): Yes; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u-kLdX-lglMFtitWI1uu76SWWkmJSz03QrH_o9kPdTw/edit

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): No

7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required): Uganda

8. What are your programs, approaches, and strategies? What are the challenges that you are trying to address and how will your strategies support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

In 2024 the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda will undertake a diverse range of programs and strategies. Our initiatives will encompass cultural heritage preservation through Wiki Loves Monuments, documenting football in Uganda via Wiki Soccerthon, co-creating content with and about refugee settlements in Wiki For Refugees, and empowering educators with Wiki4Education. We will also participate in global Wikimedia events like Wiki Indaba, Wikimedia Summit, and Wikimania, advancing knowledge sharing in Africa. Additionally, we will focus on finalizing our strategy development, expanding Luganda Wikipedia, promoting gender equality through WikiGap and Art and Feminism, and contributing to Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, GLAM-Wiki, Wiki For Human Rights.

The approaches and strategies we will implement to achieve our goals will include.

Mobilizing our volunteers to actively participate in the different activities, supporting them with things like internet data, borrowing them devices, and transport reimbursements for events to lower the barriers to participation
Collaborations and Partnerships. We will strengthen the existing partnerships we have and implement new partnerships with different organizations and institutions in Uganda that are aligned to our goals, these include educational institutions, refugee organizations, government bodies and embassies of other countries in Uganda.
Capacity building. We will conduct training sessions and workshops to empower our members to contribute effectively to Wikimedia projects
Integrating advocacy across all Wikimedia related projects, to create more reach and impact.
Community Engagement. We will conduct community engagement activities to foster a sense of belonging and motivate the volunteers to contribute more.
Strategic Planning. In 2022 we started a strategy planning process, which we are finalizing this year. Next year the focus will be on starting implementation of that 5 year strategy.

These programs, approaches and strategies will all contribute to achieving our user group's goals of knowledge sharing, cultural heritage preservation, gender equality, and promoting Wikimedia projects in Uganda.

9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)


Category	Yes/No
Education	Yes
Culture, heritage or GLAM	Yes
Gender and diversity	Yes
Community support and engagement	Yes
Participation in campaigns and contests	Yes
Public policy advocacy	No
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required): Editing Wikipedia Training, Wikimedia Commons programs, Translation; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required): Secondary school students, Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors; Other groups if any: N/A

Culture, heritage or GLAM

9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required): Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research, Supporting GLAM professionals to incorporate use of Wikimedia in their work, through documentation, training, or Wikimedian in Residence programs, Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues; Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Gender and diversity

9.3. Select all your programs and activities for Gender and diversity.: Bringing in women and/or gender diverse participants and editors, Focusing on creating content about women and/or gender diverse groups, including biographies, intersectional topic areas and/or adding images, Focusing on creating content about marginalized (underrepresented) communities and their knowledge, Focusing on knowledge equity by bringing in contributors from underrepresented communities, Fomenting female leadership within the movement (either staff, members or boards); Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Community support and engagement

9.4. Select all your programs and activities for Community support and engagement.: On-wiki training of community members, Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences, Offering microgrants and other financial support to community members , Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.); Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required): 1Lib1Ref, Art+Feminism, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Monuments, WikiForHumanRights, WikiGap, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/197wmu9OrkQLbNbToVzQXXDiv8lHkJ47DeTTMZu7K1ZM/edit#gid=822949401

11. Describe your team. (required)

We have one full time staff, the finance and administrative officer working 40 hours per week, and 5 part time staff who are the project leads working 8 hours per week each.

Name: Joan Nantumbwe Role: Finance and Administration (Full time) Username: Nantumbwejoana

Name: Geoffrey Kateregga Role: Executive director and Project Lead Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (Part time) Username: Kateregga1

Name: Sandra Aceng Role: Project Lead Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki For Human Rights, Wikipedia for Refugees, Art and Feminism (Part time employee) Username:Sandra Aceng

Name: Erina Mukuta Role: Project Lead Wiki for Education, Luganda Wikipedia (Part time) Username: Erinamukuta

Name: Douglas Ssebaggala Role: Project Lead Wiki Soccerthon, Wikigap/Wiki Loves Women (Part time) Username: Douglaseru

Name: Alice Kibombo Role: Project Lead GLAM (Part time) Username: AKibombo

12. Will you be working with any internal (Wikimedia) or external partners? Describe the characteristics of these partnerships and bring a few examples of the most significant partnerships. (required)

For Wiki For Human Rights, we intend to work with DefendDefenders. Defend Defenders brings in an expertise in regards to what human rights entails in depth and they focus on human rights defenders of the month to recognise the work done by human rights defenders worldwide including environmental health human rights defenders. Therefore, they would expound on knowledge on human rights and make available connections for Wikimedia Uganda to expand on partnerships hence visibility of wikimedia overall related projects.

Wiki For Refugees, we intend to work with partners that directly and indirectly work with refugees both in the urban and rural areas such as Integrated Refugee Organization (IRO), Map Uganda, Dan Church Aid, Amara Hub. Amara hub provides space for training in Northern Uganda, Map Uganda will provide laptops needed for the trainings, IRO and Dan Church Aid will expound on knowledge and explore areas of focus in regards to refugees and would avail both human resource and any other related resources needed for the trainings to improve african refugee content on wikipedia and other wikimedia related projects.

OpenStreetMap Uganda: In November 2020, the User Group had developed a memorandum of Understanding to define how the two aligned organizations can collaborate and work together on different projects. The initial stages of this collaboration happened through OSM Uganda inviting members of the User Group to share about Wikimedia with their cohort of interns, and also having OSM Uganda volunteers take part in user group projects: photographic competitions, Wiki Vibrance in 2021, Wikisoccer in 2022, and Wikigap in 2023.

As mentioned above, we will continue to collaborate with OpenStreetMap Uganda on the above, and other projects like Wiki For Refugees, and other projects.

Wikivibrance: The User Group in Uganda will participate in Wiki Vibrance activities to engage youths in the movement. The previous collaboration was during the Africa Youth Month in 2021.

EARTHub: The User Group has hosted East Africa Wikimedians in 2019 at the East Africa Strategy summit in Kampala in 2019. Some of the user group members and volunteers have participated in the research project led by the Wikimedia Community User Group in Tanzania. Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda will play an active role during the pilot and implementation of the EARTHub.

Innolab: The User Group joined a cross affiliate collaboration project to draft a new innovation format for the movement. This collaboration (led by Wikimedia Deutschland) will be utilized for the User Group to get insights, and also share with other affiliates what innovation looks like. Re-Imagining UNLOCK was initiated by and is led by the team Innovation Engine by Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE).

GLAM : We will maintain opportune partnerships with those we have worked with such as The African Studies Bookstore for #EveryBookItsReader ; The Uganda Society Library and Goethe Zentrum Kampala who have provided space for a number of events ; The National Library of Uganda who have provided original source materials for consultation on different projects that we have needed content for ;

13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required): Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

Metrics[edit]

Wikimedia Metrics[edit]

14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)

14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.

All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.

Participants, editors, and organizers
Metrics name	Target	Description
Number of all participants	550	N/A
Number of all editors	550	N/A
Number of new editors	285
Number of retained editors	85
Number of all organizers	42	N/A
Number of new organizers	23	N/A

14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)

Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	760	300
Wikimedia Commons	2700	700
Wikidata	500	200
Wiktionary	50	20
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

Other Metrics[edit]

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): No


Other Metrics	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget[edit]

16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): No

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

N/A

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required): N/A

17. Your local currency. (required): UGX

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 388600000 UGX

Multi-year funding request summary
Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	N/A UGX
Year 2	N/A UGX
Year 3	N/A UGX

Requested amount in USD: 91196.05 USD ^{[note 1]}

Multi-year funding request summary in USD
Year	Amount USD ^{[note 1]}
Year 1	N/A USD
Year 2	N/A USD
Year 3	N/A USD

↑ ^a ^b ^c The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

19. Does this proposal include compensation for staff or contractors? (required): Yes

19.1. How many paid staff members do you plan to have? (required)

Include the number of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include them separately and mention their terms.

6 paid staff

19.2. How many FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total? (required)

Include the total FTE of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include their FTEs with the terms separately.

2 FTE

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): N/A

20. Please provide an overview of your overall budget categories in your local currency. The budget breakdown should include only the amount requested with this General Support Fund (required).


Budget category	Amount in local currency
Staff and contractor costs	89700000 UGX
Operational costs	105890000 UGX
Programmatic costs	143010000 UGX

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KpzeVNUBYON8qM5FLctiMjqYZrQqeSmpPoNG-vha4q4/edit#gid=1747193417

Additional information[edit]

22. In this optional space you can add any other additional information about your proposal or organization that you think can help us when reviewing your proposal. (optional)

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

Feedback[edit]

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[fixedrate-1] The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

[note 1]