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East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific

This region includes:

American Samoa; Australia; Brunei; Cambodia; People's Republic of China; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Cook Islands; East Timor; Federated States of Micronesia; Fiji; French Polynesia; Guam; Heard Island and McDonald Islands; Hong Kong; Indonesia; Japan; Kiribati; Laos; Macau; Malaysia; Marshall Islands; Mongolia; Myanmar; Nauru; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Niue; Norfolk Island; North Korea; Northern Mariana Islands; Palau; Papua New Guinea; Philippines; Pitcairn Islands; Samoa; Singapore; Solomon Islands; South Korea; Taiwan; Thailand; Tokelau; Tonga; Tuvalu; United States Minor Outlying Islands; Vanuatu; Vanuatu; Vietnam

Program Officer

Jacqueline Chen

Senior Program Officer for East, Southeast Asia, & Pacific

eseap_fundwikimedia.org

Location: Singapore

Timezone: GMT+8

Language(s) spoken: English, Chinese

JChen (WMF)

Regional calendar

Please reach out to your Program Officer if you are interested in applying before making any application or if you need flexibility on dates.

General Support Fund - Round 2 (2023-24)

February 15, 2024 - March 14, 2024

Applicant support and eligibility check

March 14, 2024

Submission deadline

March 15 - April 22, 2024

Review and translation

April 22 - May 6, 2024

Review feedback and applicant engagement

May 23, 2024

Decision announced

June 6, 2024 - June 30, 2024

Agreement and first payment

January 15, 2025

Midpoint conversation

August 15, 2025

Final or first year report due

General Support Fund - Round 1 (2023–24)

General Support (Wikimedia Community Fund)

• Applicant proposal support starts: August 11, 2023
• Submission deadline: September 8, 2023
• Eligibility check: August 11 - September 8, 2023
• Application translation: September 11 - September 15, 2023
• Review process starts: September 18, 2023
• Feedback received: October 6, 2023
• Engaging with feedback: October 6 - October 27, 2023
• Decisions announced: November 10, 2023
• Agreement signed: December 1, 2023
• First payment sent: December 1 - December 19, 2023
• Midterm conversation due: July 15, 2024
• Final report due: January 31, 2025
• Yearly report due for multi-year funds: January 31, 2025

Contact us

Rapid Fund

If you want to apply or if have any questions about the Rapid Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: eseap_rapidwikimedia.org

General Support Fund

If you have any questions about the General Support Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: eseap_fundwikimedia.org

Regional Committee

• Aotfs2013, August 2021 - Taiwanese administrator on Chinese Wikipedia and former member of the Project Grants Committee.
• Kunokuno, August 2021 - Network Organizer of the Art+Feminism User Group, Communication Expert of the EWOC team, and member of the Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group.
• Exec8, August 2021 -community member leading discussions on topics related to the ESEAP region. Also member of the Wikimania Steering Committee and Movement Strategy Roles & Responsibilities Working Group.
• Chipmunkdavis, August 2021 - Development sector experience in the ESEAP region, prior activity with WMUK.
• Taweetham, September 2022 - Long-time volunteer from Thai Wikipedia and WMTH with experience in Wikipedia Education Program
• Kunirasem, September 2022 - Javanese Wikipedia volunteer and contact person for Yogyakarta Wikimedia Community; experienced as WMID grantee for projects.
• GhoziSeptiandri, September 2022 - Part of the organizing committee for ESEAP 2022: Reconnect, Wikimania 2023 "Diversity. Collaboration. Future", and ESEAP 2024: Collaboration Beyond the Horizon.
• YShibata, October 2022 - was a contractor for Wikimedia Foundation Movement Strategy and Governance team November 2021 to June 2022.
• 22Kartika, September 2022 - member of Wikimedia Australia and long-time volunteer within Wikimedia Indonesia.
• Alphama, October 2022 – founder of Vietnam Wikimedians User Group.
• Kasi Valu - Wikimedian in Residence for Creative New Zealand (2022). Member of ESEAP funds committee 2022 - 2023; Representative of the Pacific region.

Inactive and Past Committee Members

Conversation hours for Round 2 from March to May 2023

Conversation hours are available for questions, comments, and any general support around our funding programs in the region. Please review the table below for information and links to these meetings. You may also wish to drop the ESEAP Programme Officer an email so that she will know to expect you. Thank you.

Date	Time	Language	Topic	Link to meeting
February 16, 2023	3:00 – 4:00 UTC	English	For new applicants – Wikimedia Community and Alliances Fund	Google Meet Link
February 16, 2023	13:30 – 14:30 UTC	English	For new applicants – Wikimedia Community and Alliances Fund	Google Meet Link
March 9, 2023	3:00 – 4:00 UTC	English	For new applicants – Wikimedia Community and Alliances Fund	Google Meet Link