Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiforHumanRights 2024 in South Sudan (ID: 22585590)/Final Report
Application type: Standard application
Part 1: Project and impact
1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
We were able to train members of train members from various languages and groups to make them aware of the existing Dinka and developing Nuer Wikipedia, and we also edited and created 50 articles on Wikidata and Wikipedia; we managed to work with Young people in Uganda and South Sudan and lastly used a reward system to keep our participants active.
2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)
Share links to:
- Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
- Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
- Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.
You can also share links to:
- Important social media posts
- Surveys and their results
- Infographics and sound files
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects
Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)
For example:
- Training materials and guides
- Presentations and slides
- Work processes and plans
- Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiforhumanrights_in_South_Sudan_1.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiforhumanrights_in_South_Sudan_2.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiforhumanrights_in_South_Sudan_3.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikiforhumanrights_in_South_Sudan_5.jpg
3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly agree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Agree |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning
4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)
You can recall these learning questions below: 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
I learned that;
Information availability plays a vital role in the locals' decision-making. We had a couple of case studies in training, and the participants showed that this whole idea seemed foreign before understanding the actions they could take against climate change. Now that they know, they feel more accountable for taking action.
2. Little climate change information is available in Dinka and Nuer, which will impact the content consumption by the citizens of South Sudan, hence the deliberate need for its creation. 3. There is a barrier to easy information access about climate change in South Sudan since most of the content is in English and also with hard terminologies, which brings us to again deliberate on the local Wikipedia that we have
5. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences? (required)
I didn't expect the participants to quickly understand the concept of climate change and the actions around it since it is a topic that has a lot of terminologies, but since we were explaining most locally, a couple of participants even gave their own experiences with the things we shared and what they want to do to take care of their environment the sense of responsibility arose immediately and the need to document such by writing it in Wikipedia or taking photos to commons, so that was very unexpected for me.
6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)
I will write a simple report for them but also share the learnings via infographics on our WhatsApp group and social media.
Part 3: Metrics
7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)
In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.
| Target | Results | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 20 | 20 | |
| Number of editors | 15 | 16 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 30 | ||
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 | ||
| Wikidata | 100 | ||
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| Wikispecies | |||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
8. Other Metrics results.
In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | wikidata and wikipedia | |||
| 47 | Commons uplaods | |||
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
No
9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges? (required)
Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
1400000
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
1400
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Provide the link to the financial report https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NQBjy6T6B01sF_CZxNmQ9N3LLFM-pPaGrQyijnJGBJI/edit#gid=0
12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes
14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
14.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
Yes
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
I delayed my report cause I could not be in a position to receive the funda as the time expected since I changed my bank details to the one of my fiscal sponsor and that took so long