Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki For Climate and Environmental Literacy in Rivers State (ID: 21878788)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Ugwulebo
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
User: Ugwulebo and User: Omorodion1
- 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 the co-founder of the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub. Aside from being a member of the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub, I am also a member of the Wikimedia Nigeria Usergroup; Wikimedia + Libraries Usergroup; as well as the Nigerian Wikibrarian Community.
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki For Climate and Environmental Literacy in Rivers State
- 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.
River state is one of the largest oil producing states in Nigeria, even as Nigeria is one of the top oil producing countries in the World. However, the continued exploration and spillage of oil, coupled with the increasing activities of illegal refiners and bunkerers, have led to increased environmental and climatic problems (in the state) including air pollution, water pollution, lead exposures, poor waste management, deforestation amongst others. Also, illegal bunkering and gas flaring has increased the presence of soot airborne particulate matter which could lead to chronic respiratory diseases and heart problems. However, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/climate-solutions/education-key-addressing-climate-change) as well as several studies (like Yakubu, 2018) have identified environmental risk communication and environmental literacy as key strategies to addressing climate change and environmental problems. This project therefore aim to advance a healthy environment in the state by training selected undergraduate students on issues relating Climate Change, Carbon literacy, Ecological literacy and environmental literacy using Wikipedia, so as to help promote green economy and ensure sustainable development in Nigeria. Also, this project is conceived to help fill the Wikipedia content gap around environmental and climate change issues, with specific focus on local content.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
In order to help achieve a healthy environment in Rivers State, we will be creating awareness and sensitization campaigns, training residents (undergraduate students) on climate change and environmental matters so they can be better equipped knowledge-wise to make informed decisions as well as educate others in the state. This will ultimately help improve the climate and environmental literacy levels in the state in the long run. We strongly believe this will work because environmental education is currently considered an important strategy to addressing environmental issues. While there are no or limited formal opportunities for residents to learn about environmental and climate change issues, this project is proposed to help train selected undergraduate students from two higher institutions in Rivers State (Rivers State University and Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic) on the subject matter. A total of 30 undergraduate students in each of the two higher institutions will be trained and they will be expected to train, educate and mentor others on climate change and environmental issues.
Furthermore, we will be organizing a Wikipedia training and edit-a-thon in each of the two institutions so that the sixty trained undergraduate students can help close the content gap about climate change and environmental issues, with a focus on local content. I believe this approach will help to improve the environmental literacy of residents in River state, as well as other persons outside the state as more accurate and reliable information will be made available.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will be organizing the following activities:
- 1. Awareness and sensitization campaigns about Climate change and environmental issues. We will also carry out an awareness campaign on Wikipedia project editing among undergraduates in the two selected higher institutions in the State. This will enable us to raise climate change champions who are skilled in using Wikimedia projects to address climate change and environmental issues so as to achieve sustainable development in Nigeria.
- 2. We will organize two in-person events per institution followed by virtual sessions on Zoom. These events will consist of Wikipedia Training; Edit-a-thon; climate change and environmental education.
- 3. We will create an outreachdashboard where we will assign articles to participants and also monitor their activities.
- 4. We will create a separate Whatsapp group where participants will be mentored after the events. This initiative will help participants to solidify their knowledge through knowledge sharing and collaboration. Also, interested participants will be added to the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub Whatsapp group.
- 5. We will connect participants to sustainable development groups in the country that will help them amplify their knowledge as Climate and environmental Champions. If need be, they will equally be connected to the existing Language Wikimedia communities (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) where they can better develop their Wiki Skills and promote climate change and environmental articles in local languages.
- 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.
Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, WikiForHumanRights
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes.
User: Ugwulebo - is the co-founder of the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub. He is an experienced Wikimedian who has organized several Wikimedia projects in Nigeria. He will lead this project.
User: Omorodion1 - is an experienced Wikimedian and co-founder of the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub. He has organized and facilitated several Wikimedia events in Nigeria. He will be the chief facilitator for this project. He is an alumni of the Oxford School of Climate Change organized by the Oxford Climate Society. He has also been involved in SDG activities in Nigeria.
- 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, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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.
The project will provide opportunities for participants to add climate change and environmental contents to Wikipedia and it will also help improve the climate and environmental literacy levels in the state.
- 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, Human Rights, Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Socioeconomic status
- 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 undergraduate students at Rivers State University and Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic both in Port Harcourt, River State. At Least 30 participants will be trained from each school. Most of the participants will be newbies and this will provide an avenue to recruit new Wikimedians for the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub and the Wikimedia Nigeria Community while raising environmental and climate change ambassadors. The participants will be added to a Whatsapp group where on-boarding information will be shared. The participants will be mentored on Whatsapp and in Zoom meetings in addition to the in-person training and edit-a-thon. After the events, interested participants will be added to the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub where they will participate in other Wikimedia events and campaigns.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will adopt the Wikimedia Foundation Friendly Space and Civility Policies in all our meetings and ensure everyone is welcome and allowed to contribute to the good of the Movement.
- 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 announced this project in the discussion page of the Nigerian Wikimedia User Group (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Wiki_for_Climate_and_Environmental_Literacy_in_Rivers_State ) as well as in the discussion page of the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub (https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/_Port_Harcourt_Wikimedia_Hub#Community_Notification ).
- 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.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, 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?
We hope to learn about the participants' willingness to continue editing after the training. I equally want to learn more about issues relating to environment and climate change and how Wikimedia projects can help in the actualization of Sustainable Development Goals with regards to climate change and environmental sustainability. Furthermore, through this project, I hope to learn about undergraduates` readiness to tackle climate and environmental issues and what other measures that can be taken to advance a healthy environment.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Number of event | We will have a total number of four in-person events (2 events from two institutions) followed by virtual events. The events will include at least a Wikipedia Training and Edit-a-thon in each of the two institutions. | 4 |
| Participating Institutions | The number of institutions were these events will be held | 2 |
| Number of Participants for the evaluation survey | Atleast 60% of the participants will be expected to participate in the evaluation survey that will form part of the learnings from this project | 40 |
| Number of Newly Recruited Wikimedians | This project will provide a perfect avenue to recruit new Wikimedia Editors for the Wikimedia Community in Port Harcourt and in Nigeria at large. Atleast 60% of the total participants will be new editors | 40 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The total participants we expect to have for these events is 60; at least 30 per institution. | 60 |
| Number of editors | The total number of editors is expected to be at least 62 comprising of 60 participants and two organizers | 62 |
| Number of organizers | The total number of organizers | 2 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Participants will be trained on how to contribute to Wikipedia. The total articles include those created and improved during the project | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Photos will also be uploaded 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.
I will use the Outreach Dashboard to track and assign articles to the participants. It will also be used to measure some project metrics such as number of participants, number of articles created/improved, number of references added to articles, article views amongst others.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1621993.44 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3912 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BE2pcVx5DUyjgOEnkvlic-ZJOlHFQQzav6GgFY6cdNc/edit?usp=sharing
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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