Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Lets Connect Peer Learning Program Hausa Community Phase Two (ID: 22252058)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Musa Vacho77
- Organization
N/A
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
N/A
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Lets Connect Peer Learning Program Hausa Community Phase Two
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-10-27 - 2024-02-29
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Let's Connect Peer Learning Program
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
The proposals seeks to provide financial support and logistic support for 15 number of Hausa community who are community leaders and organizers that need to upskill their leadership and organizational skills in other to work with the community at the utmost best with experience and skills their have and with the one they will get from the program since its peer to peer learning from the most experience people in the entire community. and also share and learn from the Lets Connect Learning Program.
Lets connect is a peer learning program that create an open and safe learning space for any Wikimedian more especially now organizers, facilitators and leaders in the community looking that this phase two of lets connect is community driven. to share and learn different skills. Organizational issues and access to funds, programe tactics, interpersonal skills, skills related to Wikimedia project.
we hope that by participating to lets connect, we will be contributing to Movement Strategy around sharing knowledge, building skills, people-centeredness and solidarity. we hope to promote a learning culture and environment that is adaptable to our context and regional dynamics and fits into our communities availability, workload, needs, and contextual diversity. By participating we also hope to make visible capacities in communities that are sometimes not visible.
with this proposals we hope to support participants so that they can participate in Lets Connect learning spaces, by covering some logistics costs and to participate that may act as barriers. These include aspect such as connectivity, access to computers or phones, transportation, refreshment and the time to dedicate to this. Beyond this, its also seek to provide peer support so that participants fell confidence and safety to learn and share in diverse space.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
1. one in person event; this will be meant to bring the participants together and it will serve as a space where an awareness will be done for the general community.
- 2. organized 2 learning clinics sessions; this will be on the main issues that bordered the entire hausa community relating to leadership, organization, coordination and local CoC creation and awareness.
- 3. support participants; these serve as means to support participants with logistic and gain access to learning clinics, organized by the lets connect team within the grant life circle. each participants is expected to attend 1 event each months, for 4 months of the grant life circle, making it 4 sessions per participants. and the reason we are making and relaying on the sessions organized by the lets connect team is because most of the sessions organized by lets connect team are community driven and they matched the skills needed in our community also they are rich in materials and from experienced wikimedians.
- 4. we are also going to review, watch and analysis 4 sessions from lets connects organized sessions. this is because the topics covered are community driven, and they really mattered in upskilling and educating leaders, organizers and facilitators our community.
these topics are;
- 1. Communication crisis prevention and management.
- 2. Motivation and retaining volunteers.
- 3. Small affiliate management
- 4. Experience and strategies for facing a team crisis.
these are topics to be watched, analyze and exercise on.
- 5. we are also planning to organized 3 learning clinics using the participants skills directory on what they want to learn and what they want to share.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
they are all volunteers and also they are all part of Hausa Wikimedians User group and Nigerian Commons Photographers Group.
- 1. Musa Vacho: Lead Organizer and Coordinator.
- 2. Gwanki: Promotion and Logistics
- 3. Aliyu shaba: Communication and Event planning
- 9. 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? (required)
The participants generally are all from Hausa Community, we will engaged the participants by the use of Whatsapp group we already have, which is part of effective and easiest means of communication here.
we will follow up with them via their emails and whatsapp groups and individual contacts.
10. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Let%27s_Connect_Profile/Bashir_Sani_Gwanki
11. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Let%27s_Connect_Profile/Muhammad_Bashir_Yahuza
12. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Let%27s_Connect_Profile/Ramatu_A_Haliru
13. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Let%27s_Connect_Profile/Ramatu_Abdulrasheed_Haliru
14. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Let%27s_Connect_Profile/Yusuf_Sa%27adu
15. Abubakar Yahaya
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
N/A
- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
Here we discussed the idea we have on the whatsapp group we have purposely meant for lets connect learning program, and we also share it with the general community via whatsapp. we chose whatsapp because its the most effected means of communication and the most used here.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Digital Access
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. what is the level of interest participants have in lets connect program?
- 2. do they think that its safe and inclusive learning environment?
- 3. are the opportunities the program offers and the process clear for participants?
- 4. are participants learning and sharing skills that can be applied to their wikimedians activities?
- 5. are we building collective capacities that can further support Wikimedian communities in our context?
- 6. most importantly are the support offered throuh this funding helping to reduce barriersto participate in spaces?
- 7. are the learning method adequate for participants needs and interest?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 15 | these include community leaders, program organizers, facilitators in the community that needs to upskill their leadership and organizational skills in other to drive the community with utmost skills and experience.
looking that lets connect phase 2 is community driven. |
| Number of editors | 15 | these are all editors in the community |
| Number of organizers | 3 | these are number of organizers that will lead the project |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| this is the number of participants that feel engaged with the program, and also are interested in continuing and are clear about the opportunities that it can offer and feel that they are supported | this will be analyze through a survey and semi structured interview with participants to measure a number of factors, such as engagement, feeling of safety, inclusion, etc. | 15 |
| participants that have applied the skills learned to their wikimedia work | this will be analyze through the same survey and semi structured interviews with participants to measure some of the learning outcomes and how they are applying this in practice. | 10 |
| General community members that value the program and see this as a way of strengthening the wide wikimedia community | this will be analyzed through a community wide survey to gather insights from community members associated with local user group. | 30 |
| number of participants in this proposals | this is the determined number of participants that benefited from the proposals directly from funding in strategies 1 and 2. | 15 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
survey and a semi structured interview
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2991078 NGN
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
3900 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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