Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiForHumanRights on LGBT in Ghana and Benin (ID: 22895716)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Hadassahlove

Organization

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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)

I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.

Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)

Wiki For Human Rights Nigeria and I am the co-lead of the organization whose aim is to provide and support LGBTQ+ topics on the Wikimedia projects.

Main Proposal

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

WikiForHumanRights on LGBT in Ghana and Benin

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

2024-02-18 - 2025-04-06

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region) Ghana, Benin and Nigeria

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

WikiForHumanRights

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)

In 2021, we started the first Wiki LGBT advocacy in Nigeria through the Rapid fund supports. This has metamorphosed into a wiki LGBT+ community in Nigeria and also helped expand the LGBT+ coverage of Nigerian topics on the Wikimedia projects. With our last TransVisibility Camaoign which targetted Ghana, Benin for the first time through the [banner notice] and this has increased participation from these two countries and the need to develop the capacity of so many queer contributors based on the request received.

So this project is mainly centered on training the Ghana and Benin LGBT communities on the basis of contributing contents to Wikipedia so more content of the country LGBT can be better represented as part of the WikiForHuman project. This edit a thon will then train and recruit LGBT rights persons in these countries into contributing to Wikipedia and also improving and creating Wikipedia articles on LGBT activists and topics in partnership with LGBT-centered organizations in Ghana and Benin

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.

We are planning 2 main trainings in the capital city of these 2 countries: Benin and Ghana.

Porto-Novo between March 7th to 12th 2025
Accra between March 17th to 21st 2025

We are already in contact with major LGBT organizations in the two countries that will help us to mobilize for queer participants and ensure safety.

Also will be reaching to affiliates in the respective countries.

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.

Hadassahlove, Event Organizer
Hirondelle Club Benin, Partnering organization in Benin
Rightify Ghana, Partnering organization in Ghana
A representative of the Wikimedia LGBT community as facilitator.
Justice Okai-Allotey, Experienced Wikipedia editor - facilitator
Kaizenify; Experienced Wikipedia editor - Advisor and Trainer
Participants to be provided by the partnering organization.

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)

Queer participants. They will be provided by the partnered queer organization

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.

I have announced this project in the discussion page of the Talk:Wikimedia LGBT Usergroup. And also announced on the whatsapp group for Wiki For Human Rights Nigeria

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)

Sexual Orientation

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

Advocacy

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

Gender Identity

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)

How to better support LGBT countries across West Africa and the LGBT visibility gap across West African countries coupled with the impact of successive collaboration

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	80	40 for each city
Number of editors	60	30 for each city. As they will all edit the Wikimedia projects after the training
Number of organizers	13	From both countries and including the team at W4HR, LGBT partnered organizations and country affiliate

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	500
Wikimedia Commons	200
Wikidata	400
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)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
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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)

The outreach dashboard to measure contributions

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i2ZSyD-wG2_5Cm808JP_eZF6Lm4viwwKRaPYcEVfwu8/edit?usp=sharing

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

7590000 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.

4507.46 USD

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

Yes

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