Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiforHumanRights 2024 in South Sudan (ID: 22585590)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Lomoraronad
- Organization
Open Knowledge South Sudan
- 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)
I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
I manage and lead the community, schedule and chair program meetings, startegize for the community bridge the gap between stakeholders and the community
Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
WikiforHumanRights 2024 in South Sudan
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-06-01 - 2024-06-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
South Sudan
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
WikiForHumanRights
- 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)
Over the past few years, floods have been worsening in South Sudan, which is suffering greatly from climate change. Every year, between 750,000 and over a million people are affected by floods. Half of these people are forced to leave their homes and move to higher ground. The change we aim to bring is to enhance knowledge and understanding of the impacts of floods in South Sudan and to address the lack of information about local biodiversity and vulnerable areas. Our main challenge is the limited awareness and documentation of flood-affected regions and indigenous species in South Sudan. To address this challenge, the following strategies would be adopted: Build knowledge about flood prone areas, soil erosion and excessive rainfall in English, Nuer and Dinka languages. Build local participants' knowledge on how to contribute flooding, soil erosion, and excessive rainfall content to Wikimedia projects. Build knowledge of participants and the public about local plant and animal species on Wikidata in Nuer/Dinka languages.
These efforts would empower communities with localised information and foster conservation efforts amidst the environmental challenges exacerbated by climate change.
- 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.
We would employ the following activities to achieve the set strategies:
Build knowledge about flood-prone areas, soil erosion, and excessive rainfall in English, Nuer, and Dinka.
Organize writing contests to engage new and old contributors to translate content related to flooding, soil erosion, and excessive rain on English Wikipedia to Nuer and Dinka languages. Add the local names for South Sudan plant and animal species on Wikidata. We would also engage participants on Wikivoyage to improve content relating to South Sudan locations where flooding and soil erosion are dominant.
Build local participants' knowledge on how to contribute to flooding, soil erosion, and excessive rainfall content to Wikimedia projects.
Organize local physical and online training sessions for participants to learn how to contribute to flooding, soil erosion, and excessive rain-related topics on Nuer/Dinka Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. Contributors would also be supported to benefit from the different global and regional capacity-building sessions organized by the campaign.
Build knowledge of participants and the public about local plant and animal species on Wikidata in Nuer/Dinka languages.
Organize Wikidatathons that would help participants learn about South Sudanese plants and animal species and their local names and awareness of the importance of building such local knowledge in Nuer/Dinka languages.
- 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.
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
- 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)
We plan to focus on the language communities in South Sudan, specifically the Nuer and Dinka communities on Wikipedia. We aim to translate the existing content and make it available in the local language, which is spoken by at least 60% of the country's population. Additionally, we will reach out to members of the Wikimedia community, as well as environmentalists and activists at Juba University who are interested in writing and discussing topics related to climate change in South Sudan.
- 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.
At the beginning of the year, we had a meeting with the community administrators and members to discuss our plan for the year. As part of the Wikimedia Organiser Lab program, I suggested continuing with the Wiki for Human Rights program, which everyone found interesting. Fortunately, the grants for this program have opened, and we are excited to apply. We have already prepared internally and held meetings to plan how the program will be run, so this application is a part of that plan. We have also made Wikimedia communities outside of the South Sudanese community aware of our upcoming event by adding the event to the campaign community event table on the meta page. We also informed the Anglophone Africa regional coordinator of the intended activities to share thoughts relevant to shaping the application.
- 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)
Content Gender gap
- 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)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
How can free access to knowledge about flooding, soil erosion, and excessive rain bring behavioural change among local South Sudanese people that helps protect the environment? How would the availability of climate change information in Dinka and Nuer impact readership in South Sudan? What is the barrier to information access relating to climate change in South Sudan
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 20 | |
| Number of editors | 15 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 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 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 30 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 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)
Dash Board
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FIPhsMq3lrxVvmldewLmXh5I6hjxZ20SsKsLfeUPr5g/edit#gid=0
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2800000 SGD||SSP
- 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.
1400 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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