Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiLoves Women SheSaid in Northern Nigeria (ID: 21942292)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 11 January 2023
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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[edit]- Title of Proposal: WikiLoves Women SheSaid in Northern Nigeria
- Username of Applicant: Saudarh2
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 3496
- Amount spent: 3296 USD, 1461328 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work
[edit]1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
First of all, we started with sending out Invitation letters to our potential partner Women Organisations notifying and inviting them about the project and when it's going to happen. We then organised 2-days in-person training workshops (presentation sessions) in October 2022 and followed it with a 3 weeks of writing contest to motivate the participants commit to editing Wikimedia platforms from October to November 2022, and after that we created two WhatsApp groups for follow-up sessions to support participants during and after the writing contests.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Yes, of course there were strategies that have helped us in achieving our goals, especially inviting those women organisations, that has encouraged a lot of them to participate because they saw we are all women and they were easily open to us and eager to join us. And another strategy is creating a WhatsApp platform for them, we now have an active WhatsApp platform that we deliberate our activities, we now have participating in different areas of activities on Wikimedia spaces and we are always expanding together.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Women_SheSaid_In_Northern_Nigeria_2023
4. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly agree |
5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
I would like to share that, myself and my colleague facilitators being only women to organise this project had helped us a lot in mobilising women to joined us participate in this project and write contents that represents ourselves. Because, in a region where volunteerism is not popular and female education is still not everywhere and you got more than 25 of them to join Wikipedia and help cover a content gap is a success to us.
Part 2: Your main learning
[edit]6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
Base on our outlined learning priorities, we have achieved key learning takeaways from this project. Firstly, we have successfully engaged Hausa women into online volunteering platforms, this strategy has proven effective throughout and has helped us in the adaptation of the cultural sensitivity of the society. Secondly, we have achieved new user recruitment and retention method by providing them with a platform for continuous mentorship and skills improvement. Thirdly, we have also, achieved ways to collaborate with local organisations for good, this has helped inclusivity and diversity. Finally, we have achieved of skills, content creation about women in our localities...
7. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences?
We are grateful that everything went smoothly according to our plan. The event have yielded positive experiences, especially the participants' enthusiasm and their eagerness to learn contributing to the Wikimedia platforms as evidenced by their numerous questionings on editing after the program.
8. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
We are planning do a lot of other programs even if it's outside Wikispaces on how we can continue to develop the culture of volunteering and tech literacy among our women because Wikimedia has definitely open us a way of seeing the world in a very different way that we have known before. So, also contributing to Wikiprojects for us is a pride and we will keep inspiring others to do and help bridge perspective on contents that are on the internet.
9. Documentation of resources: Use this space to upload any documents that would be useful to share with others (e.g. communications material, training material, presentations).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
N/A
Part 3: Metrics
[edit]10a. Open Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined some open metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with your metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 50 | We have 32 participants | Attendance during the event |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 32 | 32 users registered | WMF outreach dashboard |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 5 | We have 5 organizers | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 559 | 307 Articles created and 351 articles edited | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
10b. Core Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined targets for some core metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with each core metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had. Note: a table will appear for each Wikimedia project content contribution you defined in your proposal.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | We plan to engage at least 40-50 participants through out the project | 50 | 52 | We have 32 participants that participated each day | Attendance list during the event |
| Number of editors | We are hoping to have 15 of the active editors to participate in this project | 15 | 32 | We have 32 editors newly users | WMF outreach dashboard |
| Number of organizers | The total number of organizers that would participate in this project are five, four of us active editors and one an outside program facilitor | 5 | 5 | Wr have five facilitators who helped during the event |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikiquote | Create and improve content | 100 | 307 | We have 307 articles created during the event | WMF Outreach dashboard |
| Wikipedia | Improve content in Wikipedia | 50 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | Photo to be Uploaded | 50 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
12. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? This could include things like a lack of time or resources, or the expertise in your team to collect this data. It could also include difficulties with particular data collection tools.
No
12a. State what difficulties you had.
N/A
12b. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges?
N/A
13. Use this space to upload any documents and provide links to any tools you have used that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, program and event dashboard link, project page on Meta).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
14. Have you shared these results with other Wikimedian communities (either affiliates, user groups, volunteers, etc., different to yours)? This can include things such as data and direct outcomes, lessons you have learned, or information on how to run or recreate your programs.
Yes
14a. If yes or partially, please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how.
We have used our WhatsApp platforms to share the information with our community and the impact seen was very appreciated.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance
[edit]15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
1461328 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
3296 USD
17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
17a. Upload a financial report file.
17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
N/A
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
17c. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
N/A
18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
19. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes
20. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
21. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
Yes
22. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
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