Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki for Climate and Environmental Literacy in Bayelsa and Delta States (ID: 21987056)
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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. Aside being the co-founder of the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub, I equally a member of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, Wikimedia + Libraries User Group as well as the Nigerian Wikibrarian Group.
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 Bayelsa and Delta States
- 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.
Climate Change and environmental issues have remained among the most discussed topics in recent times and has continued to attract global attention. The continuous increase in the earth`s temperature, otherwise referred to as Global Warming, is having deadly effect on our environment today and by implication, affecting both sea and land creatures, including humans. Among the effect of climate change in our society today is increased droughts, hotter temperature, increased wildfire, flooding in some areas, crop and infrastructure failure, direct harm to health and safety etc. In fact, the World Health Organization in 2021 described Climate Change as the single biggest health threat facing humanity. There is therefore an urgent need for individuals, organizations and government agency to take action to ensure a greener and sustainable environment. In order help advance a healthy environment, individuals and organization must have a clear awareness and knowledge of these environmental issues and must understand their responsibilities in actualizing a healthy environment. As observed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, environmental education and climate change education are key strategies to achieving a healthy environment. To this end, we would like to extend our Wiki for Climate and Environmental literacy campaign to cover two neighouring and oil producing states in Nigeria – Bayelsa and Delta States. The goal is to help advance a healthy environment in Nigeria 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. In addition, this project will help fill the Wikipedia content gap around environmental and climate change, 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.
The main approach or strategies to achieve the changes discussed in this project is to hold an awareness and sensitization campaigns in Bayelsa and Delta States of Nigeria to enlighten citizens on Climate Change and other environmental issues, including their responsibilities in addressing the menace. We will equally hold climate change education and training with undergraduate students in both states, and they will in turn be expected to train other students and youths so as to help achieve a sustainable environment. We strongly believe this will work has several studies have attributed high level of environmental literacy to both formal and informal environmental education. Given that there is limited opportunity for Climate Change and environmental education in Nigeria, this project will help train youths and raise environmental champions in Nigeria. It is proposed that atleast 80 undergraduate students (40 each from University of Delta, Agbor, Delta State and Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State) will be trained through this project. In addition, the project will also involve Wikipedia training and edit-a-thon, where the selected undergraduates for this project will be taught on how to contribute content on Wikipedia and sisters projects. The project will be rounded up with an edit-a-thon focus on closing the local content gap on Climate Change and other environmental issues.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
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 respective Wikimedia Communities.
- 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, WikiForHumanRights, WikiGap
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
User: Ugwulebo (Volunteer Coordinator) – 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, including the Wiki for Climate and Environmental literacy project. His knowledge and experience will be useful in coordinating this project. User: Omorodion1 (Volunteer Co-coordinator and Facilitator) – User Omorodion1 is an environmental enthusiasts, with special interest in Climate Change. He is an experienced Wikimedian and co-founder of the Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub. He has organized and facilitated several Wikimedia events in Nigeria, including the Green Wiki Campaign. As a graduate of the Oxford School of Climate Change, User: Omorodion1 will be the Chief Facilitator for this project. His experience as an SDG champion in Nigeria will be very useful for this project.
Additionally, we plan to invite guests environmental specialists during our virtual meetings.
- 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.
- 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?
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language
- 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 for this project will include undergraduate students in two universities in Bayelsa and Delta States. The universities are University of Delta, Agbor, Delta State and Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State. Atleast 40 undergraduate students will be trained from each school and they will become environmental champions and members of the Wikimedia Nigerian community. The participants will be added to a Whatsapp group to aid follow-up during and after implementation of the project.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We adopt the universal code of conduct in all our meetings and in our whatsapp group. We also remind participants of the Wikimedia friendly and civility policies.
- 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 discussed this project with members of the Wikimedia Community in Nigeria and their advice and recommendations helped shaped this project. The project have also been announced in the discussion page of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria and Port Harcourt Wikimedia Hub. See links below:
- 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?
Nigeria as a country has faced several environmental issues, including air pollution, flooding, oil explosion, lead exposure, pipeline vandalism leading to fire explosion etc. it would be interesting to know how much of the environmental issues in Nigeria is being documented in Wikipedia, how many environmental champions are willing to contribute content to Wikipedia, as well as how many undergraduate students are interested in being environmental champions while contributing content to Wikipedia.
- 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 events | We will have a total number of four in-person events (2 events from two institutions) followed by virtual events. These events will also include a Wikipedia Training and Edit-a-thon in each of the two institutions. | 4 |
| Number of Participating States | The events is expected to take place in two neighboring states in Nigeria as a way of creating awareness | 2 |
| Number of Institutions | This refers to the number of universities in Nigeria where this project will be implemented. | 2 |
| Number of Newly Recruited Wikimedians | This project will provide a perfect avenue to recruit new Wikimedia Editors for the Wikimedia Community in Nigeria. It is estimated that atleast 60% of the total participants will be new editors | 48 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The total number of participants for this project will be 82. Atleast 40 will be trained from each institution. | 80 |
| Number of editors | the number of editors for this project will be 82, comprising 2 organizers and 80 participants | 82 |
| Number of organizers | Number of organizers | 2 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Atleast 100 Wikipedia articles focused on Climate Change and environment will be created/improved through this project | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Atleast 50 high quality images will be contributed to Wikimedia Commons through this project | 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.
Outreachdashboard
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
2099654 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4832 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oZzqP4bLhhfZdPgbNlQr0JxAPPxO2-FqlStn_3XUBfg/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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