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Macholi Chris Benard

Benards0271

mchrisbenardgmail.com

Best way to connect: Via telegram or whatsapp

WikiForHumanRights

Uganda • Middle East and Africa (MEA) region

Preferred times: Wednesday, Saturday (12 - 16 UTC, 17 - 20 UTC)

Can dedicate: Between one (1) hour and three (3) hours per week

Languages: English

Main Wikimedia projects: Wikimedia Commons → media repository

Areas of interests: Education, Advocacy, Human Rights, Climate change, oil and gas

Other peer learning/training initiatives participating in: Lion Club for Mbarara University of Science and Technology

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Skills this profile would like to learn

Preferred way of learning: Participate learning clinic sharing my case, By being mentored by an organization with more experience

Organization skills: Building your organisation’s plan and strategy • Proposal writing for funding  • Financial planning and management • Leadership growth and sustainability

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Defining learning and evaluation plans  • Documenting knowledge in ways that are easy to communicate with others

Interpersonal skills: Processes and tools to manage conflicts • Processes and tools to deal with abuse and harassment control  • Use various tools related to community health • Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers

Programatic and tactic skills: Implementing common tactics in the area of culture, heritage and GLAM • Medium size editing events, campaign and contests  • International campaigns and contests • Designing and developing educational programs

Wiki tech skills: Using Wikisource  • Basic Wikidata  • Wikimedia Incubator and setting up Wikimedia projects in new languages • Wikimedia Tools (PAWS, Quarry, WDQS) for running queries and scripts

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Skills this profile would like to share

Preferred way of sharing: Have a 1:1 online coffee/tea with someone, Organizing face-to-face workshops.

Organization skills: Program/project implementation • Establishing governance • Knowledge management: documenting learning, organizing archives, documenting procedures • Identifying & approaching prospective partners

Learning, evaluation and communications skills: Methods and tools for qualitative evaluation • Designing learning /retrospective sessions  • Wikimedia tools to measure quantitative metrics • Engaging in social media, press, and broadcast media

Interpersonal skills: Skills that are important for managing teams and volunteers  • Cultivate more inclusive and safe environments online and offline  • Processes and tools to promote healthy interactions on wiki

Programatic and tactic skills: Volunteer management and development • Effective training for newcomers/ newcomer experience • Small editing events, campaign and contests  • Event organising

Wiki tech skills: Setting up templates for Wikimedia projects (Main pages, info boxes, etc.) • Identifying topics of impact • List building for edit contests and campaigns

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Further details about what I would like to learn.

Process and tools to manage conflicts. I would like to learn how to solve conflicts in a peaceful and diplomatic way. Using Wikisource so that I can share the information with other. Proposal writing. More guidance on how to write a successful proposal asking grant for an NGO Not-For-Profit.

Stories about sharing

Interesting stories about applying the skills I want to share.

Establishing Governance. Gained this skill after my process of starting up an NGO called MAC Education Access Foundation Uganda. I have learnt about various aspects required to start up an NGO.