Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Photowalk of Hausa Community on Flood in Northern Nigerian and Workshops On Water Sanitation and Hygiene (ID: 22895396)

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Musa Vacho77

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Main Proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Photowalk of Hausa Community on Flood in Northern Nigerian and Workshops On Water Sanitation and Hygiene

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2025-02-10 - 2025-05-10

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)

WikiGap

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 number 6 of the United Nations (UN), Sustainable Development Goals (SGD's) is clean Water and Sanitation. Thus clean water, sanitation and access to water is very important in our lives.

Nigerian Constitution recognized the right to water and sanitation. Most people in Nigeria do not have access to clean water, especially in the rural areas. The Global water sanitation and hygiene statistics shows that 79% of Nigerians go through challenge of water scarcity. In 2015 in Nigeria 60 million people lacked at least access to 'basic water' as for Sanitation only 33% of the total population had access to at least basic Sanitation. This was 39% of the Urban population and 27% of the rural population. Approximately 122 million people still lacked the access to at least basic Sanitation.

Recently in 2023 there has been a flood in Nigeria that stopped transportation across the Northern and the Southern part of the country which leads to a massive negative effects and price hike of goods, services and commodities due to flood that effect the Kwara and Kogi state bridge that link the Northern and the Southern Nigeria. This leads to fuel hike in Northern Nigeria and foodstuff hike in Southern Nigeria. This floods is as a result of Climate change and lack of proper awareness of community sanitation and lack of proper information available to educate the communities.

Recently this year before the raining season our community finds it very difficult to have access to water even at the big cities in the urban areas, due to climate change and lack of proper Water Sanitation this lead to girls and women disproportionately affected by the burden of fetching water and inadequate menstrual health and hygiene at home and school. Poor water access sanitation hygiene (WASH), services in health facilities which put mothers and newborn at risk. Rapid population growth and Climate change compound the WASH challenges which need to be addressed to ensure no one is left behind.In our community, one of the key challenges and problem resulting to flood, and in accessibility of water is the dump of waste and dirt to the water line, small rivers and community building along water roads. This is a clear example of lack of proper awareness on the dangers and consequences of these actions. Lack of proper maintenance of our Dams is also one of the key challenges of water crisis and flood.

It's observed that, in this year alone 2024 at the early days and months of the raining season, the water fall short, this leads to lack of water as we mentioned earlier even in the big cities in the northern Nigeria and now towards the end of the raining season there's almost rain everyday that causes floods and breaks of Dams that destroyed lives and properties. And the community lack basic information and knowledge to effectively used the rain to their advantage in terms of clearing drainages and proper maintenance of small rivers and dams. This is also a clear effects of climate change and alots needs to be done to educate and informed our community in other to help save our earth. Thus this we think this project is very crucial to our community as we can see there are floods within this year alone in almost all of the 19 northern states in Nigeria. After a careful study we recognize that, Floods are not been fully covered on the Wikimedia project especially Wiki Commons Thus we intent to covered the recent most horrific experience in the northern Nigeria ranging from The Borno Flood, the Bauchi Flood and the Kaduna- Zaria flood in the Northern Nigerian. We intent to photowalk these states in other to document the floods to the Wikimedia project. Also there's a very wide gap of information missing in our community about Water and Sanitation. As important as the area is, article in our community (Hausa Wikipedia) about water and sanitation are non existence. Even though there are large volume of articles on water and sanitation in English Wikipedia. Therefore and awareness need to be done to ensure those articles are created/translated for the better consumption of our community due to language barrier of English in most cases. So we will like to create those articles on Wikipedia as Wikipedia is one of the reliable and free access to information in the world and one of the key means of getting reliable information in our community. We will take an advantage after the photowalk we will be having A photo-a-thon to upload the photos and an Editathon Workshop to create the missing articles on Water Sanitation and hygiene that's missing in Hausa Wikipedia.

Looking that the projects need expert. We collaborated with the Kaduna state WaterBoard Authority located in Malali Kaduna for this project as this projects requires expert from the field to talks to the participants and audience during the online camping and the workshops. And also contribute their quarter to seeing the success of this campaign and project by bringing their experience. Also we get contacted by their mother agency in Kaduna, Kaduna State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (KADRUWASA).

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. A photowalk to A. Borno state: The On September 10, the Alau Dam collapsed, causing floods in Borno State, killing at least 150 people, displacing 419,000 others and causing the community to submerge 70%. The Walks will include to the Alau Dam, The Palace of Mai Borno, The Popular Maiduguri Grave, and the Other places been destroyed.

B. Bauchi State: A flood in Bauchi State caused the deaths of 24 people, the injuries of at least 163 others and caused 122,330 others to be displaced. The photo walk will include The Bauchi-Lagos Bridge that's collapsed, The Bauchi City Center and the Azare Community axist that the Flood destroyed.

C. Kaduna State: The Flood in Kaduna, Zaria LGA destroyed majorly properties and building. The photowalk will cover Zaria City, The Ganuwa Axis, And the Samaru Axis In Kaduna Zaria LGA.

These photowalk will produce, 2000 photos of the said places of flood.

2. 2 days Photo-A-Thon to upload the photos to Wiki Commons.

3. A Workshop editathon to create 50 article to Hausa Wikipedia on Water Sanitation and hygiene and Polish 100 articles. The list of the articles are: There will be two days in person editathon to create and translate 50 Article related to Water Sanitation and hygiene to hausa Wikipedia and also polish 100 articles related to Water sanitation and hygiene. Below are the list of the 50 articles to be translated.

4. A one week online campaign to create awareness on Water sanitation and hygiene. This is where the Staff of KADRUWASA will be around to talked to our participants and also during the Editathon and the Photo-A-Thon.

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.

1.Musa Vacho: Lead Project organiser, A well Experience Wikimedian for over 5 years, organised, co organised and facilitated more than 20 Successful project. A Jury with the Wiki Loves Africa for 3 years and counting.

2. Anas Adam: Lead Facilitator and Logistics, A Photographer also. An Administrator in Hausa Wikipedia. With more than 5 years Experience.

3. Uncle Bash: A Photographer with UncleB Photos studio. An admistrator in Hausa Wikipedia, with 5 years wiki experience.

4. Aliyu Yusuf: Lead Translator, one of the best Translator in Hausa Wikipedia. With 4 years on wiki experience.

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)

1. Hausa Wikimedians from Hausa Community. 2. We already engaged the participants via WhatsApp group for this project and the General Hausa Wikipedia WhatsApp group as it's a easier means of communication in our community. 3. Via WhatsApp groups as indicated.

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.

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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.

The discussion on Waters sanitation and hygiene in our community has been for long. Especially around 2023 and now 2024 with the recent floods and the Borno floods spark it to life.

We discussion with the community on several occasions among them are the Hausa Community concern meetings, The Wiki Naija Conference as I'm one of the self sponsored to the conference.

And the last Wikipedia Sessions hold last 2 weeks about Wiki Commons in Hausa community.

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)

Geography

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Climate Change and sustainability

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Geographic

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Provide for Safety and Inclusion

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

1. How well this project will educate our community on Water sanitation and hygiene.

2. How best we can utilize collaboration with Government agencies.

3. The inclusion of women in the discussion of water sanitation and hygiene as it's affect them the most.

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	40	These are number of people that will participate in the project .
Number of editors	25	These are number of people that will edit in the project
Number of organizers	4	Organises of the event.

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	150
Wikimedia Commons	2000
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

This project will produce 2000 photos of floods in 3 Northern States in Nigeria. And also will create 50 articles on Water Sanitation and Hygiene and also polish 100 articles.

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
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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)

Outreach dashboard

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jqrAUKnf5L6zAvDYc8WR-nl0r7jUB5sxCpE-3aLhUhc/edit?usp=drivesdk

22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

2532733 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.

1505 USD

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

Yes

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