Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/The rights of the girl child in African society. (ID: 22063991)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Ezimoo
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Ezimoo Ngozi osadebe Beatrice Ewa Amakanne
- Organization
Literacy for Sustainable Living Nigeria
- 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 Wikimedia Nigeria User group, Art and Feminism (A+F) and unrecognized Wikimedia group in University of Nigeria Nsukka such as SPURG and Nnamdi Azikiwe Library Wikipedia groups.
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
The rights of the girl child in African society.
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
International
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
Nigeria, Ghana Zambia, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Beni Republic, Mali, Cameroun, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Niger Republic, Tanzania, Morocco, Libya, Rwanda, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bisua, Congo
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Despite the fact that the universal human right declaration apply equally to all sexes, for ages, girls and women have been discriminated and marginalized in various aspects of their lives in different societies. The United Nations (UN)1979 convention on human right which is ratified by many African countries explicitly emphasized the protection of the rights of women and girls; on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. Yet, various forms of discrimination against the girl child still exist in many African countries. This may not be unconnected to ignorance caused by lack of information. This proposal aims to make information on the rights of the girl child freely available online for government and citizens. The information may form the bases for which the government may draft policies and create awareness among citizens of their rights.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The approaches I will use are: Partner with students of the Faculty of Social Sciences to deliver the project. Develop the capacity of the students to contribute high quality content to Wikipedia Design a method of capturing learning from the program
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Send out letters of invitation to my partners. Organize a two days training for my participants Generate topic lists with which participants can work with Create dashboard for the program Share responsibility among participants Organize two days edit-a-thon for my participants Design a data capturing instrument to capture learning
- 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.
1Lib1Ref, WikiForHumanRights
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes. Ngozi Osadebe - An associate professor, she is a Wiki volunteer and also the Instructor of the programme
Ezinne Njoku - The organizer of the programme, she is also a facilitator of Wiki training at University of Nigeria Nsukka.
Beatrice Ewa - A Facitator of Wiki training at University of Nigeria Nsukka. Chimuanya Pearl Ngele - Lecturer in University of Nigeria,Nsukka (UNN), She won a prize at the 2022 SPURG Wikipedia. .
- 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.
Content Gender gap, Geography, 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.
Most information on the girl-child on Wikipedia are written by foreign authors, who have little or no knowledge of the cultural background in African context. This work aims to provide information on Africans using African stories written by African authors.
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Culture, heritage or GLAM , Human Rights, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , Disabilities
- 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?
The target participants are postgraduate students of the faculty of social science. Among them are two women with disabilities. All the participants are from the University of Nigeria community. Before the program, participants will be engaged through WhatsApp discussion, emails and phone calls. Conversations through WhatsApp, emails and phone calls will continue after the program. Computers will be provided through the university library for those that do not have to participate in the program. Wikimedia contests announce on Diff and in the Nigerian Wikimedia User group will be brought to the notice of the participants through the group whatsApp platform. This is to get them connected to Wikimedia events.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The WMF safe space policy and the Universal Code of conduct will be summarized and copies pasted at strategic locations at the venue. The Literacy for Sustainable Living Nigeria policy of none use of titles at events will be enforce to ensure that nobody gets intimidated by titles. The university medical Centre will be notified to send some personnel to stand in incase of emergency. Hand washing and use of sanitizers will also be applied
- 11. 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 topic for this proposal was selected and discussed at the joint meeting of Wikimedians in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) held on December 15, 2022. All members contributed ideas towards this proposal. To make the communities aware of this proposal, I followed the following processes.
- 1. Liased with the coordinator of Wikimedia projects at UNN to list this proposal among the items to be discussed in the quarterly meeting of UNN Wikimedians.
- 2. Help to publicize the quarterly meeting to ensure that members turned up.
- 3. Be available at the meeting to explain details of the project to the participants.
- 4. Publish the program at the members WhatsApp platform and respond to all questions concerning it
Oral discussions have been carried out with some members of the Wiki community through physical meetings. Telephone calls, WhatSapp messages and e-mails have been sent to members of my Wiki community
- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
No
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1. What categories of the post graduate students responded more to the call to contribute content on the rights of the girls child?
- 2. How likely is it that the participants will continue to edit Wikimedia on the rights of the girl child?
- 3. How has the program affected the participants value of the girl child?
- 4. What is the participants perception of the program?
- 5. What are the major challenges the participants encountered in contributing content to Wikimedia on the rights of the girl child?
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Category of the participants | The category of participants are postgraduate students that are made of males, females, young students, old students, those pursuing masters' degrees and Ph.Ds. There are also disable students. A demographic questionnaires will be used to answer this question Thirty participants will be involved. | 30 |
| The likelihood that the participants will continue editing Wikimedia on the rights of the girl child | Participation in projects such as Wikimedia projects is driven by interest. People interested in a project will always go back to the project or wish that it does not end. It will be important to find out if the participants are really interested in the program and will continue editing. This information will be captured through focus group discussion in 15 participants. | 15 |
| Value of the girls child | How has participation on the program affected the participants value of the girl child? How will the knowledge they gained from the project affect their relationship with their girl children in terms of sharing responsibilities at home, office or public spaces? This information will be gathered through focus group discussion with 20 participants. | 20 |
| Challenges | The post activity discussions will identify some of the challenges the organizers and participants encountered while preparing and during the editing programme. A focus group discussion will be held to answer this question.About twenty participants will be involved. | 20 |
| Perception | The organizers will like to know how successful the programme has been. It is the participants' contribution and the dashboard that will determine the extent of success. This will involve the use of questionnaire and focus group discussion and will involve 20 participants. | 20 |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 37 participants made up of 30 editors, 2 technical assistants; 2 cleaners and 2 baby-sitters and 1 security gaurd | 37 |
| Number of editors | 30 editors derived from faculty of social Science postgraduate students (both masters and Ph.D), both male and female including people with disabilities. | 30 |
| Number of organizers | The target organizer are as follows:
User:Ezimoo. Ezimoo is the principal organizer for this event. User: Ngozi Osadebe: Ngozi osadebe will anchor the training User: Beatrice Ewa. Beatrice Ewa will be the communication secretary for this program. User: Amakanne. Amakanne will be in-charge of logistics. User: Pearl Ngele. Pearl Ngele will be the facilitator for those with visual impairment |
5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | New contents created 10
Existing content improved 60 |
70 |
| Wikidata | Create Wikidata entries for African books on Human Rights | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | New photographs uploaded 20
Existing pictures merged with related articles 10 |
N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- 18. 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.
I will use Wikipedia outreach dashboard.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1955500 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4243.88 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NsTUFzMt_qlQBGb1ZYbk0-gOOoBsv1nv/edit#gid=3223423
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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