Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki4HumanRight - Medical Care (ID: 22159954)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Uncle Bash007
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Musa Vacho Sanusi Gado Alameen Khalid Usman Ahmad Isa
- 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.
Hausa Wikimedians User Group, Wiki Fan Club Umaru Musa Yaradua University, Katsina
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki4HumanRight - Medical Care
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
Local
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
- 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.
The UN declaration on Human Rights state that "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." The Wikiforhumanright campaign is aimed at making sure that everyone has access to neutral, fact-based, and current information around our Right to a Healthy Environment - which is a legal right aknowledged by the UN. Everyone everywhere needs access to information about how environment impact their lives. Environmental pollutants can cause health problems like respiratory diseases, heart disease, and some types of cancer. There are also few articcles related to medical/health care topics under Hausa Wikipedia. This project thus is aimed at creating awareness medical articles in Hausa as well as creating awareness by using such articles in places having less access to information.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
This project will use Wikipedia articles on the major diseases caused by environmental pollutants - respiratory diseases (asthma), heart diseases and cancer for awareness through the following strategies. a) We will invite a human right expert to sensitise on the major human rights declared by the UN b) We will invite medical experts to create awareness on these diseases c) Wikipedia Articles such as asthma, Cardiovascular diseases, Colorectal cancer, breast cancer, prostrate cancer etc will be promoted in this event d) There will be session for questions and answer relating to these diseases e). we will create a webinar video that will be shared across social media platforms
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The above strategies will be achieved through the following actvities a) offline campaign: i. outreach to local communities for sensitisation on rights to healthy environment and medical care ii. In-person event for awareness on Wikipedia articles relating to such topics (and diseases caused by unhealthy environment) b). Online: i. Webinar videos will be created and shared on social media platforms and youtube ii. online awareness training will be organised for delivering information on related topics
- 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.
WikiForHumanRights
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
I, an experienced and active editor with more than 20,000 edits on Wikipedia mainspace and administrator under Hausa Wikipedia and a new page patroller, will lead the project. Other experienced editors such as Musa Vacho7 (who have organised campaign in breast cancer using Wikipedia articles) will help in making the project a success. User Sanusi Gado will help in arranging and delivering awarenesses and sensitisations.
- 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.
Geography, Sexual Orientation, 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.
This work will cover areas having limited access to information, regardless of their sexual orientation using wikipedia articles as a global topics of impact.
- 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.
Advocacy, Human Rights, Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, 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 community are local communities in Katsina state LGA's, such as Batagarawa, Rimi, and Dutsin-ma, Daur and Zango who have limited access to medical care. We will create an in-person awareness in those communities and recruit literate interested people to Wikipedia
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We are Wikimedians, therefore, we will strictly adhere to the Universal Code of Conduct and Friendly Space policy
- 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.
I have informed my community through the community talk page https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kofan_al%27umma#Wiki4HumanRight-Medical_care
- 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.
Yes
- 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.
We will partner with a Human Right expert who will help in delivering lectures on Human Rights. We will also invite a medical expert that will sensitise on healthy environment and diseases caused by the vices.
- 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.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
At the end of this event, we hope to learn the following a) Ensure that the target communities become fully aware of the basic Human Rights declared by the UN b) Ensure that these communities are aware of their right to healthy environment and it's impacts on their health c) Ensure that these communities are aware of their right to access of information and Wikipedia as major tool for reliable information d) Ensure that these communities are aware of their rights to medical care, major diseases caused by environmental pollutants, and ways to minimise such impacts e) ensure that these communities become fully aware of Wikipedia and recruit editors from them
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LGAs' | Number of LGAs' to be visited during awareness and sensitisation campaigns | 5 |
| Under-reprepresented communities | Number of Under-reprepresented communities to be covered during awareness and sensitisation campaigns 3 per Lga | 15 |
| Human Right | Human right expert/organisation to ally | 1 |
| Medical expert | N/A | 1 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of people reached during campaign | 100 |
| Number of editors | Number of people engages in editing and creating health and medical care topics | 30 |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | articles to be created/improved | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Environmental and medical/health pictures to be added to Commons | 50 |
| N/A | N/A | 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.
Wikimedia Dashboard Dedicated page on meta
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
971709 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2104.06 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17mvzRnbkjKe3lbcl2q1XEBOtCqtCpyaQDbRVNp1fk8E/edit#gid=0
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).