Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiforHumanRIghts 2023 in South Sudan (ID: 22058282)

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Applicant Details

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Lomoraronad

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Woja Emmanuel- Woja Emmanuel

Organization

Wikimedia community South Sudan

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.

WikilovesMonuments WikilovesAfrica Wiki4refugees Wikilovesfolklore Eduwiki- Wiki in education

Grant Proposal

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

WikiforHumanRIghts 2023 in South Sudan

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

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.

@wikisouthsudan on all social media platforms

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

Climate change has had significant impacts on the lives of people in South Sudan, including extreme flooding events. In 2022, 1.18 billion people globally were affected by such events, 27 million of whom were children. Despite this, there is a lack of information and understanding about how individuals and communities are experiencing and responding to these impacts. The change the Wikiforhumarights will bring is the availability and access to relevant information about climate change, rivers, and topics of impact around climate change and as well make sure the content created is also available in Dinka and Nuer Languages to make sure the content is available.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

we shall have 3 modes of strategies to implement this program;

1. Training sessions will be conducted in partnership with Juba University to educate citizens on how to share their experiences and responses to climate change impacts and the right to a healthy environment.

2. Collaboration with the Dinka and Nuer Wikipedia language communities to identify and translate relevant Wikimedia content.

3. Photo walk and Hunt of available photos but also looking at existing photos on this topic that already exist and create articles around them

Regular monitoring and evaluation of the project to ensure its effectiveness and make any necessary adjustments. The available resources I got during the organizer lab training, shall be used to train the members

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

1. Wikidata, item editathon, we shall also. have a session of adding items about climate change on Wikidata

2. We shall be having a Wordathon, Adding content on Wikitionary for the Dinka and Nuer Languages, with a list of 200 words that needed to be added into the local language wiktionary this will be the right time

3. An Editathon on Wikipedia and training with the other Academia, Juba University houses many activists and students interested in studying or writing about the climate and environment

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.

WikiForHumanRights

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

yes,

1. Wani Yusif [User: Waniyusif94] - Facilitate the coordination of the event

2. Woja Emmanuel [Woja emmanuel] - Communications and as well Community Liaison

3. George Levi [User: George Levi] - Trainer Wikidata

4. Likambo Isaac [User: LikamboisaacK]- Trainer Wikipedia

5. Lomora Ronald [User: Lomoraronald] - Finance managment

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.

Language, Socioeconomic Status, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)

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.

Flooding and oil pollution are having significant impacts on climate change in South Sudan, but many in the community are unaware of these issues. Making the information available will fill the gap in knowledge and raise awareness Disseminating information through the media has been challenging. However, creating content on Wikipedia about climate change in local languages provides a valuable resource for individuals seeking information on important issues, improve access, and encourage action

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.

Advocacy, Human Rights, Climate Change and sustainability

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

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?

We shall be targeing the Language communities in south Sudan i.e the Nuer and Dinka Wikipedia communities that shall be able to translate the already existing content and make it available to the local language that if combined spoken by at least 60% of the country, and then at also the Wikimedia community members and Envirmetalist and Activists in Juba University who are willing to write and discuss topics around climate change in South Sudan

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

Via our WhatsApp and telegram groups that we created in the following of this conversation, we also have weekly meet-ups at the community hall to talk about this project and other projects with the university students and the language communities

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.

We first had a meeting at the beginning of the year with the community administrators and members about the plan for the year and since I ama part of a Wikimedia Organiser Lab program I suggested the Wiki for human rights program that everyone picked as a topic of interest and lucky enough the grants for it opened and we are excited to apply since this was a planed program with meetings done to prepare internally how it would be run, and hence this application

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?

Yes

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

Yes

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

We are applying this proposal as a community with the members of the languages of Nuer(Naath) and Dinka Langauge to create more impact and as well develop more content in the local content and as well reach a broader audience in our project

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.

Improve User Experience, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

1. How information availability will change the decision-making ideas of the locals

2. how the availability of climate change information in Dinka and Nuer will impact content consumption by the citizens in south Sudan

3. The barrier in easy information access about climate change in south Sudan

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 Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
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17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	10 from English(Students and activists from the University of Juba) 10 from Dinka (from the Dinak Wikipedia community) and 10 from Nuer (from the starting Naath Language community)	30
Number of editors	8 from English 10 from Dinka and 10 from Nuer (all the selected participants shall be editors apart from 2 who shall focus on commons and the rest shall also add content on wikidata )	30
Number of organizers	yes, 1. Wani Yusif [User: Waniyusif94] - Facilitate the coordination of the event 2. Woja Emmanuel [Woja emmanuel] - Communications and as well Community Liaison 3. George Levi [User: George Levi] - Trainer Wikidata 4. Likambo Isaac [User: LikamboisaacK]- Trainer Wikipedia 5. Lomora Ronald [User: Lomoraronald] - Finance managment	5

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
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17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

Wikipedia - 30 articles commons- 50 images Dinka- Wikipedia - 30 articles Nuer Wikipedia - 20 articles Wikidata English - 50 items WIkitionary - 50 words

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.

Dash Board

Financial Proposal

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

1634000 SSP

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

1400 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NQBjy6T6B01sF_CZxNmQ9N3LLFM-pPaGrQyijnJGBJI/edit#gid=0

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

Yes

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