Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiVibrance in South Sudan 2022 (ID: 21912709)

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Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Lomoraronad

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Lomoraronald romeoronald Sandra Aceng AKibombo

Organization

Wikimedia community South Sudan

Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.

We belong to the Wikimedia community user group South Sudan, and I am also a part of the wiki4refugees program in Northern Uganda

Grant Proposal

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

WikiVibrance in South Sudan 2022

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

@wikisouthsudan;

1. Twitter

2. Instagram

3. Facebook

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

This project is a local campaign to support the global event with a similar one in South Sudan

Young Wikimedians are part of about 1.8 billion young people taking action to solve pressing issues in different corners of the world today. They are found in almost every wikimedia community in the movement. Their presence is felt in the communities they lead, and belong to, and the actions they take in building free knowledge on Wikimedia projects.

Therefore, as young people's voices are celebrated all over the world on 12th August, 2022, it is important that we are moved to celebrate young wikimedians and the communities/individuals who are shaping these group of people, for their work in local wikimedia communities and the movement at large.

Beyond this, it creates an opportunity to leverage our number and capacity as a strength for collective action in bridging the knowledge gap on this year's IYD theme Intergenerational Solidarity: "Creating a World for All Ages" on wikimedia projects.

In addition, we hope to increase youth participation, diversity and capacity in the wikimedia movement noting how important it is for movement sustainability.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

1. Develop activities to celebrate young wikimedians, their work and the communities shaping them in South Sudan

2. Develop activities to bridge the knowledge gap on the theme "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages" in relation to the South Sudan context.

3. Engage in activity(s) that highlight youth diversity and participation in the movement.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

1. Develop activities to celebrate young wikimedians, their work and the communities shaping them in South Sudan

We will launch a simple community survey to identify two (2) young Wikimedians (preferably male and female where available) with the highest number of edits, or led/co-led Edit-a-thons/trainings/campaigns or other forms of leadership recognized by the community. We will also identify one Wikimedian who is not a young person but helping to shape the journey of young people or their communities in South Sudan
We will organize a celebratory community event for the identified people to recognize and award them with prizes. We will also share with the WikiVibrance global coordination team to spotlight them through their social media and media partner where possible.

2. Develop activities to bridge the knowledge gap on the theme "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages" in relation to the South Sudan context:

We would organize a contest, preferably an Edit-a-thon or writing contest in South Sudan with a focus on Wikipedia, wikidata or wikimedia commons with a focus on topics relating to the theme "Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages" in the South Sudan context.

3. Engage in activity(s) that highlights youth diversity and participation in the movement:

Join the participants or communities from different countries in the Wikimedia movement to tell stories of our work and communities during the Wikimania conference which will double as a global launch event for International Youth Day 2022. Share our results and stories with the global coordination team to be included in the diff publication.

4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.

Other (please specify)

Yes.......WikiVibrance

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

RomoeRonald - Trainer Bida Thomas - Local mobiliser and online event liason personel Sandra Aceng - Advisor and core assistant team

6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Content Gender gap, Age (regency), Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

With a focus on topics related to the theme "Intergenerational solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages", we will address the content gap among youths, middle-aged, women, and senior citizens in politics, health, and employment sector; national youth policies/Programmes/action that support youth participation in politics, women presence in the health and legal sector, age-related obstacles to employment and health risks posed by occupations taken by citizens South Sudan among others.

7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Climate Change and sustainability

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Socioeconomic status, Age, Digital Access

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?

Targeting youths (New members) and Wikimedia Contributors that are either a part or not of the Wikimedia community user group of South Sudan, since we have been having members from the various communities trained and contributed in the due course of our time as we implement Edit-a-thons and since we shall be using a youth-sited beacon, a place a lot of internet users are always in, (Scenius Hub) we shall be able to have a couple of new members too since it's easy to reach them.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

We shall be using a secured youth space (Scenius Hub) that has rules and regulations towards racial and ethnic discrimination and topped to our inter code of conduct and availability of a security guard the premises and the program shall be secured for the youths to have the event, and beyond all We will adhere strictly to the Wikimedia friendly space policy and UCOC all through the project activities.

11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.

We have let the WikiVibrance project core team of our intention to support the global campaign with a similar campaign in our local communities here

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Youth_Day_2022/Join_Community_Event

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Youth_Day_2022/Organize

12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?

Yes

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

Yes

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

We are the only community of Wikimedians in South Sudan so for any Wikimedia related project we work as a team and make it happen

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

Yes

13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

Mobilization and aiding in the community information, the potential partner feels that we are running programs that are centered at their vision as an organisation as well and they wish to help and identofy as an organisation that is in support of our programs

14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

We hope to learn about the young wikimedians exhibiting leadership in different capacities in their communities, youth participation, diversity, and how better to support the work of young wikimedians in the South Sudan community.

16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
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17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	We shall have 30 participants 15 male and 15 female	30
Number of editors	we shall have new and old members sign in the dash board	20
Number of organizers	We shall have only one organiser that is us, with an associate organisation to aid in the mobilisation of the particpants	1

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	20 articles	20
Wikimedia Commons	30 photos	30
Wikidata	50 wikidata items	50
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.

dashboard survey and if there are other guide tools I will be very much present to learn and adopt them

Financial Proposal

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

2079000 SSP

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

3000 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9KaqAybZv-eKVLmiUuaFL_qSiYCFRV923WP_Y7u-KQ/edit?usp=sharing

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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