Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki For Developing Real-Time Child Vulnerability Map Using Multi-source Data Fusion and Photo Walk in Kaduna Hausa Communities (ID: 23519741)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Umar-askira
- 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)
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- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki For Developing Real-Time Child Vulnerability Map Using Multi-source Data Fusion and Photo Walk in Kaduna Hausa Communities
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-11-10 - 2026-01-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
WikiGap
- 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)
Hausa-speaking communities across Northern Nigeria face increase threats from climate-related hazards such as floods, drought and heatwaves. Unfortunately, many disaster response systems do not account for Children's Specific Vulnerabilities, such as school accessibility, healthcare access, nutrition and displacement risk.
Additionally, the incorporation of the United Nations annual event "Ahead Of The Storm" (UN Tech Over Hackathon) has rendered the transparent realities of child vulnerability resulting by lack/inadequate of nutritional living that causes harmful diseases and death.
Wikipedia platforms especially the Hausa Wikipedia, Wiki Commons and Wikidata need to be in-cooperated to localized child-centered information and images reflecting the realities of Hausa-speaking regions. This hinders online knowledge equity and disaster preparedness efforts.
This project need to be considered especially how it seeks to combine the power of Wikimedia platforms (Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons) with participatory community-driven methods such as Photo Walks, Local data collection, and translation into Hausa to open and accessible knowledge resources.
Our goal is to create real-time child vulnerability maps that highlight critical issues affecting children in Kaduna Hausa-speaking Communities.
- 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.
Phase 1: Mapping and Indexing
- Identifying Hausa-speaking communities that are at high risk using the typical dwellers of the communities to help during the projecting period most especially Photo Walks to locate the communities areas.
- Integrate publicly available population density, weather patterns, school locations and hospital access.
- Design a Child Vulnerability Index (CVI) using QGIS or open-source mapping tools.
Phase 2: Photo Walks and Story Gathering
- Organize Photo Walks with the Team Members and Local Youths Volunteers in 4 most affected communities in 4 weeks ( 1 day of each week) when the children and the parent/guardians are available. The areas include:
- Igabi LGA
- Makarfi LGA
- Kaura LGA
- Kudan LGA
Through these movement, we will focus more on:
- Collecting Geo-tagged images of
- Schools & classrooms
- Health centers
- Disaster-prone areas
- Child-focused community activities
- Collecting oral stories/interviews on how climate events affect children in Hausa Communities.
Phase 3: Wikimedia Contribution:
- Host a Wiki training for community contributors and edit-a-thon for 2 days and announce the start of the contest.
- Improve or create at least 500 articles using contest to in wikipedia.
- Upload at least 500 combination of media contents (Photos and Videos) with Hausa/English captions on Commons.
- 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.
- Umar-askira (Project Lead):
- Lead the movements and the physical training, oversee the entire project from planning to reporting.
- Coordinate team activities, ensuring timelines and goals are achieved.
- Act as the main liaison with the Wikimedia Foundation local partners and community leaders.
- Supervise mapping activities, data integration and content verification.
- Approve and review final uploads to Wikimedia platforms and finally compile and submit the final project report.
- AYM8818 "Aliyu Shaba" (Wikidata and Translation Coordinator):
- Manage entry of structured data (Schools, clinics, shelter, vulnerable ares) into Wikidata.
- Translate relevant Wikipedia contents between Hausa and English, Ensure translations are accurate, culturally relevant, and easy to understand.
- Support linking of Wikimedia Commons images with entries. Assist in training volunteers on data entry and translation best practices.
- HK RIGASA2 (Photographer (Photo WAlk & Commons Uploads)):
- Lead in capturing high-quality, Geo-tagged photographs during Photo Walk.
- Ensure all images comply with Wikimedia Commons licensing and copyright rules.
- Upload photos to Commons with descriptive captions in Hausa and English.
- Work with the Wikidata Coordinator to connect images with structured data.
- And maintain proper organization and backup of all captured media.
- Aisha Yahuza (Welfare Officer 1):
- Coordinate refreshments and water distribution during field and training activities.
- Assist in ensuring volunteers' comfort during sessions and Photo Walks.
- Track welfare-related expenses and maintain attendance (attendees google form) for welfare support.
- Help manage health and safety measures in collaboration with project Lead.
- Fateekachan (Welfare Officer 2):
- Support Welfare Officer 1 in managing participants well-being.
- Assist in distributing stipends, refreshments, and materials.
- Monitor participants' comfort and promtly address any needs during activities.
- Help in preparig and packing welfare supplies before each events.
- Fateemah Usman (Child Care Coordinator):
- Supervis and engage children present during during community events.
- Organize safe, age-appropriate educational or recreational activities for children.
- Follow safeguarding protocols to ensure child safety and well-being.
- Gather child-focused feedback or stories (with guardian consent) to enhance the project's child-centered approach.
- Assist in documenting child-related aspects of the project for reports.
- 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)
This project will engage a diverse mix of participants to ensure both technical quality and community ownership of the outputs. Target participants include:
1-Local Wikimedia Contributors
- Hausa and English Wikipedia editors, Wikimedia Commons contributors and Wikidata volunteers who wll create, improve, and translate contents.
2- Youth Volunteers & Students
- Young people from Kaduna Hausa speaking communities with interest in photography, mapping and digital skills development.
- Secondary and primary schools students, especially lower primary who the project will focused on.
3- Community Leaders & Representatives
- Traditional and Religious leaders who can provide guidance, mobaliize participation and facilitate access to key locations.
4- Educators & School Representarives
- Teachers and headmasters/headmistress from local schools who can provide information onn facilities, challenge, and students vulnerabilities.
5- Parents and Guardians
- Especially mothers, to share firsthand experiences and suggestions for improving child safety and resilience.
6- Health Workers & Social Service Providers
- Staffs from clinics, primary health centers and child welfare agencies to share insights on child health risks during extreame weather events.
7- Local NGOs and CSOs
- Organizations working in child protection, climate resilience, disaster preparedness and education in Kaduna Hausa Communities.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
Yes
- 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.
- 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 reached out to my community members using the discussion Page ( Ƙofan al'umma) the link below:
https://ha.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kofan_al%27umma#Wiki_For_Developing_Real-Time_Child_Vulnerability_Maps_Using_Multi-Source_Data_Fusion_and_Photo_Walks_in_Kaduna_Hausa_Communities
And alternatively, i will use the social media handles to notify them shortly when the project (Photo Wals and trainins) is about to begins.
- 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)
Geography
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Climate Change and sustainability
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 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
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
Through this project, i hope to gain valuable lessons and practical experience in the following:
- Community-Centered Knowledge Creation
- How to engage Hausa-speaking community members in contributing to Wikipedia especially on the project topic in Commons and Wikidata.
- Ways to collect local stories, images in respectful and participatory manner.
- Digital Mapping and Data Fusion
- Practical skills in combining multiple datasets (schools, clinics, disaster-prone areas, child population) into a meaningful map.
- How mapping tools like QGIS and Wikidata can support child-focused documentation.
- Improving Hausa Wikimedia Content
- Techniques for creating, editing and translating articles into Hausa Wikipedia.
- Best practicies dor writing and uploading Hausa-language captions and descriptions on Commons
- Photography and Visual Documentation
- The process of conducting a Photo Walk and capturing Geo-tagged images suitable for Wikimedia Commons.
- How visual content can improve knowledge accessibility for local and global readers.
- Teamwork and Volunteer Coordination
- Deeper understanding of how children in Kaduna Hausa communities are affected by climate risks.
- What solution or intervention can be highlighted through open knowledge platforms.
- Grant and Project Management
- Practical knowledge of planning, budgeting and reporting under Wikimedia's Rapid Fund Grant.
- And last bu no the least, How to document outcomes in transparent way that benefits both the community and global Wikimedia movement.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | Hausa Communities that are willing to know and how to contribute to Wikipedia especially those that have less access to free encyclopedia resources. |
| Number of editors | 15 | These are experienced editors that will participate in the contest and these editors are from Hausa Wikimedians User Group, Tyap Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Kaduna Network. |
| Number of organizers | 6 | These organizer are the Project Team Members with the help of Communities Volunteers. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 500 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 500 |
| Wikidata | 150 |
| Wiktionary | 100 |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
The project will focus on uploading media files, creating items & Lexeme and Thesaurus since we are traveling to different Hausa Communities we will definitely have new Hausa words that need to be added to Hausa Wiktionary.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
- 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)
I will use the outreach dashboard and XTool to track the participants metrics of the contributios.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
4387000 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.
2858.09 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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