Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/The title of our proposal is Gender exploitation. This is a situation in which people maltreat others and infringe on their right for their selfish desire. (ID: 22066413)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
teelopsy
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Teelawpsy Ngozi Osadebe Ugoji.john Emmyglo
- 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 Wiki Nigeria, Wiki Enugu Hub, SPURG Wikimedia Community, E-WIN Wiki Project, Yoruba Language wikimedia
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
The title of our proposal is Gender exploitation. This is a situation in which people maltreat others and infringe on their right for their selfish desire.
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
Regional
- 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, Ethiopia, Egypt, South Africa, Morrocco. DR Congo, Republic of Benin, Senegal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Algeria, Sudan. Liberia, Somalia, Botswana, Angola, Burkina Fas, Burundi, Cameroon etc.
- 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.
There is much exploitation going on in our society, women are being beaten and suppressed in different ways, many children are prevented from being taught, some are used for sexual exploitation, many are being used for financial exploitation, some children and women are beaten in animalistic ways whereby one sees strong evidence of cane, belt, cuts and burns all over the body. Some have been victtims of rape, abortion and death. This suffering is compounding because there is no access to information. The essence of this work is to provide access to information on coping strategies of people who have been in this condition to share their experience, what they went through, how they coped and how they survived it. The information is what the study will aim to propagate in order to encourage those in the condition to speak out and get solutions. The information will be propagated with the use of social media tools, and creating related articles.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Call a meeting with the participants to brainstorm on best strategies to put in place in achieving the necessary changes, after which the group will guide the participant by boosting their capacities. The participant will also be given responsibilities whereby they will develop their knowledge.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
First thing to do is to create publicity in the community through diferent group whatsApp plaforms and University website. To refresh the memory of participants who had experience on wikimedia about the policy and code of conduct.
Training of new participants Creating a question and answer session to know how knowledgeable the participants about the training.
- 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.
Art+Feminism
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes, we have the team that is needed to implement this proposal.
- 1. Teelopsy, the main organizer.
2. Ngozi Osadebe Deputy University Librarian, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Coordinator/Organizer, Nnamdi Azikiwe Library and SPURG Art and Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon. A volunteer Wikipedian and a participant in the Organizer lab.
- 3. Ugoji. John, A volunteer Wikipedian. He won a prize as the best article creator in 2022 SPURG Wikipedia
Emmyglo A volunteer Wikipedian. She won a prize as 2nd best article creator in 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, Socioeconomic Status, Sexual Orientation
- 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.
This work will address the issue of gender exploitation in regards to African setting, though there has been some works on this, however, most of the works were written by people from other continents. This work will therefore give the information on the happenings on gender exploitation in Africa.
- 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.
Education, Advocacy, Human Rights
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 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 audience are the librarians and post graduate students from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka community. The programme is aimed at training the participants to edit and create articles thereby contributing quality content. A WhatsApp group will be created to ask the participants questions, provide more needed information and follow up on individuals' progress. Participants will also be encouraged to chat and share their experiences, their challenges, success stories and other new things they are able to learn on their own. They will also be inspired to continue contributing after the activities through a follow up. Another plan we have is to make sure the participants have a physical meet up once in a month to discuss their challenges. To reach out to the underrepresented, the idea is to create access to information through different platforms.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
There will be training to introduce participants to the WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal code of Conduct. Use of titles at events will be discouraged to ensure participants are at the same level. Training will be held in a well ventilated space. Washing of hands and the use of sanitizers will be taken as priority. There will be baby minders for young mothers, and a conducive environment for children to stay after school hours. There will also be provision of medical services.
- 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.
This project has been announced on wiki whatsApp groups like the SPURG, WiKi Hub, Enugu. The topic was also discussed among group members to access more information about the subject. If the project is approved, it will be further publicized in different whatsApp and other websites.
- 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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Ensure Equity in Decision-making
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
How did you know about this programme?. What motivate you to come for the programme? What skills did you acquire during the training? What challenges did you encountered while working on this Wiki programme? What is your perception of this programme? Will you like to your friends to work on Wiki programmes?
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Access to information | The group will like to find out the medium through which each participants got to know about the programme. All the participants will be asked this question in a one -on-one basis. | 40 |
| Motivation | The organizers would like to know what motivate the participants to come for the programme. Information on this would be gathered through focus group discussion among 25 participants. | 25 |
| Skills acquired | The organizers would like to know the skills the participants acquired during the training. Information on this would be gathered through one-on-one interview with 25 participants. | 25 |
| Challenges | What are the challenges encountered by the participants while editing Wikipedia pages. This Information would be gathered through focus group discussion with 25 participants. | 25 |
| Perception | The organizers would like to know how the participants perceive the programme, what is the probability that the participants will recommend the programme to their friends. Information on this will be gathered through focus group discussion with 25 participants. | 25 |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | There will be 48 participants, this include 30 editors, 2 cleaners, 2 helpers/baby minders, 2 medical personnel, 2 technicians and 10 children. The children are school children waiting for their parents while training is going on. | 48 |
| Number of editors | There will be 40 editors, this comprises 5 returning editors and 35 new editors. Each returning editor should at least create 2 new article, while new editors should edit at least 3 articles. | 40 |
| Number of organizers | There are 4 organizers. They are:
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4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Each returning editor should at least create 2 new article, while new editors should edit at least 3 articles. Total numbers of articles created or edited will be 115. | 115 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Each participant should at least upload one picture. | 40 |
| Wikidata | Each participant should create Wiki data entry for at least two books in the University library written on Africans or by Africans on gender/gender exploitation. | 80 |
| 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.
Although i am not sure about the tools, however, i know i will use 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.
1912350 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3347.55 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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