Grants:Project/MSIG/Alameen khalid aliyu Decolonisation of Africa and it imperative importance towards sustainability of the African race
Applications are not required to be in English. Please complete the application in your preferred language.
Project Goal[edit]
What will be the outputs of your project and how will those outputs contribute to advancing a specific Movement Strategy Initiative
- What specific Movement Strategy Initiative does your project focus on and why? Please select one of the initiatives described here
The output of these project would be aim in circles such as History of the African race,the norms and culture that constitute the African society both pass and present in it diverse ways and creating a room for education and creating awareness as to how important it is for man to comprehend his roots and the African continent to understand it strategic importance in the league of developing nations.
Project Background[edit]
- When do you intend to begin this project and when will it be completed?
- Intending to begin right away by embarking on field studies to generate information concerning all the areas in context of relevance and I hope to span to three month carrying out all hypotheses and research and then two weeks of background checks as to what the component of these project would be able to elaborate and then one month sensitization and awareness thereby a total of four month.
- Where will your project activities be happening?
- In Jos plateau state,Jos north local government of Nigeria and other parts of local region.
- Are you collaborating with other communities or affiliates on this project? Please provide details of how partners intend to work together to achieve the project goal.
- Am hoping to collaborate with the state and art museum and relevant stakeholders to promote these project by creating awareness for the need to sustain the hallmark and golden resources of information that the African heritage upholds and stands for.
- What specific challenge will your project be aiming to solve? And what opportunities do you plan to take advantage of to solve the problem?
- I am aiming to first of all panetrate into the wilderness of knowledge left unknown to the average African man that have not been fully hernessed and put to use and action as a result of high level of illiteracy and negligence of core values.
I plan to take advantage of the growing population and intelligence of Young Africans who with these knowledge can impact the growing discoveries of history of i.e African history artifact and values of Africa and thereby eradicating a lot misconceptions of knowledge that evolve during the earliest era of humans in Africa nd ensuring that it solve problems that span from illiteracy and advocacy in the new dispensation of new Africa.
- Does this project aim to apply one of the examples shared in the call for grants and if so which one?
- These project aims to apply to one of the examples shared ie the collaboration with state art and museum and various stakeholders within
Project Activities[edit]
- What specific activities will be carried out during this project? Please describe the specific activities that will be carried out during this project.
- First and faremost I intend to engage the relevant communities and stakeholders into a discussions that concentrate on the subject and then from there we mobilize and stretigise on a collective team work that can sensitize and educate people on the advantage of these project and it relevance to both the young,old ie especially those who have little or no knowledge about these project and then creating a network that would go a long way in fashioning information as regards to the activities that would make everyone feel carried along in all avenues.
- How do you intend to keep communities updated on the progress and outcomes of the project? Please add the names or usernames of these individuals responsible for updating the community
- I intent to engage our team the task to create a conference network through social media platforms and mobilization of the people through information gathering and sharing in avenues such as palmplet and radio jingles and forums to contanstly update people and keep them in touch on the success of these project,for now I am having a team of four personal these four people including me have taken positions such as media content creator,information and processing agent,advocacy and sensitization agent,Protocol public relation officer.
- Who will be responsible for delivering on this project and what are their roles and responsibilities?
- Names below
. Abubakar Yusuf Gusau-information and processing agent. . Uncle Bash07-protocol and public relations officer. . Idris isah Mahmud-media and content creator . Yakubu b mahmud-sensitization agent .
Additional information[edit]
- If your activities include community discussions, what is your plan for ensuring that the conversations are productive? Provide a link to a Friendly Space Policy or UCoC that will be implemented to support these discussions.
- There are experienced facilitators in the community who can help provide the needed support.
- If your activities include the use of paid online tools, please describe what tools these are and how you intend to use them.
- Yes, We are planning to use Zoom/google meet apps for online meetings etc.
- Do your activities include the translation of materials, and if so, in what languages will the translation be done? Please include details of those responsible for making the translations.
- Yes, we will translate the materials and report of this project into Hausa and share with all the communities.
- Are there any other details you would like to share? Consider providing rationale, research or community discussion outputs, and any other similar information, that will give more context on your proposed project.
- This program would help strengthen the pupil communities to apply the Wikimedia movement 2030 strategy and insure the sustainability of the movement in times to come on the African mainland.
We'd like to organise a chops and training retreat for all our core platoon members and we intend on using the contracted experimenters to help us do some exploration in putting together a good plan for this chops training as well.
Outcomes[edit]
After your activities are complete, we would like to understand the draft implementation plan for your community. You will be required to prepare a document detailing this plan around a movement strategy initiative. This report can be prepared through Meta-wiki using the Share your results button on this page. The report can be prepared in your language, and is not required to be written in English.
In this report, you will be asked to:
- Provide a link to the draft implementation plan document or Wikimedia page
- Describe what activities supported the development of the plan
- Describe how and where you have communicated your plan to relevant communities.
- Report on how your funding was spent
Your draft implementation plan document should address the following questions clearly:
- What movement strategy initiative or goal are you addressing?
- What activities will you be doing to address that initiative?
- What do you expect will happen as a result of your activities? How do those outcomes address the movement strategy initiative?
- How will you measure or evaluate your activities? What tools or methods will you use to evaluate your activities?
To create a draft implementation plan, we recommend the use of a logic model, which will help you and your team think about goals, activities, outcomes, and other factors in an organized way. Please refer the following resources to develop a logic model:
- Overview of logic models on Meta-wiki
- Example logic models for reference for other movement activities (such as partnerships and edit-a-thons)
- Blank logic model template on Google Drive
Please confirm below that you will be able to prepare a draft implementation plan document by the end of your grant:
- Yes
Optionally, you are welcome to include other information you'd like to share around participation and representation in your activities. Please include any additional outcomes you would like to report on below:
Budget[edit]
How you will use the funds you are requesting? List bullet points for each expense. Don’t forget to include a total amount, and update this amount in the Probox at the top of your page too!
- Research (time needed to review, perform analysis, or investigate any information needed to support implementation ideas or planning):$700
- Facilitation (facilitation time including facilitator preparation, meeting facilitation time, and debriefing):$600
- Documentation (document preparation time, time spent documenting of discussion, post-meeting work):$2000
- Translation (translation costs for briefs and global materials):$500
- Coordination (coordinator work to manage or support multiple workflows to prepare for meeting):$600
- Online tools or services (subscription services for online meeting platforms, social media promotion):$650
- Data (internet or mobile costs for organizers or participants to access or participate in activities):$700
- Venue or space for meeting (costs of renting a physical meeting space):$1000
- Transportation costs (costs of supporting organizers or participants to attend the meeting):$900
- Meals (costs related to refreshments, lunches, or other meals during in-person activities):$2000
- Other:400
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED USD: 10,050
Completing your application[edit]
Once you have completed the application, please do the following:
- Change the application status from
status=drafttostatus=proposedin the {{Probox}} template. - Contact strategy2030
wikimedia.org to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.
Endorsements[edit]
An endorsement from community members (especially from outside your community) will be part of the considerations when reviewing your application. Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!