Grants:Project/MSIG/Igbo and Igala Wikimedia Communities/Movement Charter Ambassador Program

statusFunded

Nigeria and Ghana Wikimedia Communities/Movement Charter Ambassador Program

To create a space and promote an equitable inclusion for the members of Nigeria language Wikimedia community ( Igbo and Igala) and Ghanaian language wikimedia communities (Gurene) to encourage collaborative and digital universality. This iteration of the Movement Charter Conversation in the West African region, will be a collaborative effort that would aid in engaging and informing these community members about movement charter and its contents, educating them on the details of the Movement’s governance. With a focus on the 4th Recommendation, Initiative 24, the conversation would be channeled towards sharing insights on the Movement Charter and Equity in Decision making. This would go a long way to keep them abreast and well informed on the WMF governance documentation and how their voices can be heard.

targetMeta Page (Igbo, Igala, Gurene, Dagaare, Dagbani and Moore)

start date1 April

start year2024

end date30th April

end year2024

budget (local currency)~~3,186,880~~ 2,950,000 NGN (using oanda.com)

grant typeIndividual

grantee• Iwuala Lucy

contact(s)• lucyiwuala

gmail.com Ogalihillary, Akwugo, Onwuka Glory, Dnshitobu, and Alhassan Mohammed Awal

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Applications are not required to be in English. Please complete the application in your preferred language.

Project Goal

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: Initiative 24 - Equity in Decision Making - This would ensure that both members of these Wikimedia communities and the newly joined members are educated and well-informed about the Movement Charter document and its entireties. It would also enlighten them on MS Initiative 24, on how, when and where to share their perspectives as well.

Project Background

When do you intend to begin this project and when will it be completed?: 26th March, 2024 - 20th April, 2024
Where will your project activities be happening?
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.: Yes, the Nigerian Igbo and Igala Wikimedians Community MC Ambassadors will be collaborating with the Gurene, Dagaare, Dagbani and Moore Wikimedia community all from Ghana to implement this project. The essence of this collaboration is to ensure and to encourage the collaborative efforts in knowledge sharing and cross-cultural practices that would aid in ensuring there's a balance in knowledge and information across these Wikimedia communities.
What specific challenge will your project be aiming to solve? And what opportunities do you plan to take advantage of to solve the problem?: This project seeks to dissect the intricacies of Movement Charter and Movement Strategy Initiative - No. 24 to the members of these Wikimedians community who weren't able to join in the conversation during the previous sessions. It is observed that without a close and grassroot conversation as this, these members are oblivious to the documentation of the Movement Charter. They know not how, when and where to add/share their thoughts with regards to how they see the activities of the movement and how it affects them. And just as stated above, to them, Movement Charter and Movement Strategy are two different hard nuts that need to be cracked. It is also observed that the Igala and Gurene, Dagaare, Dagbani and Moore languages are yet to gain much visibility on the different wiki projects, including the meta pages.
Does this project aim to apply one of the examples shared in the call for grants and if so which one?: Yes - Equity in decision making

Project Activities

What specific activities will be carried out during this project? Please describe the specific activities that will be carried out during this project.: This conversation would be implemented in 4 modes - 1 General Online Conversation; 1 Online session for the Nigeria and Ghana Communities, respectively and 1 general concluding session. An extensive conversation and Q & A session will be carried out during these 4 meetings to ensure that everyone is well informed about the Movement Charter and how Equity in decision making can become a reality and implemented.

Activities: Translation, conversation, feedbacks and report


Tasks	Start Date	End Date	No. Participants
Translating the untranslated Movement Charter pages on Meta weeks before conversation	26th March	28th March
First General Online conversation	3rd April		100
Second online conversation (in Ghana and Nigeria Wikimedia community, respectively)	7th April		100
Feedback and brief writing (to be collated on a designated etherpad)	8th April	10th April
Final Report in English	15th April	19th April

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: Through the official and designated communication channels of the 4 communities including but not limited to their talkpages and mailing list. [User:Ogalihillary] and [User: Dnshitobu] would see to the swift and wide reach of the audience in their respective communities.
Who will be responsible for delivering on this project and what are their roles and responsibilities?: Iwuala Lucy (Nigerian Coordinator) - Responsible for the major activities of the project, including receiving the grants funds, writing the grants report, and coordinating between the other collaborators.

Dnshitobu (Ghanaian Coordinator) - Responsible for the major activities of the project in the Gurene community, including receiving the grants funds on behalf of the community, writing the grants report, and coordinating between the other collaborators. And also facilitates online session.

Akwugo (Online Trainer) - Facilitate the online sessions that would take place. Create relevant Meta pages for the project. Source and curate different untranslated Meta Pages for translation

Onwuka Glory (Documentation) - Note taking and drafting out the outcome and feedback of the various sessions. Keeping tabs of various documents needed and used for the project

Ogalihillary (Communication) - Responsible for communicating and keeping the community members well informed with regards the timeline and activities surrounding the project. Draft Special Invites to community stakeholders, graphics and designs

Alhassan Mohammed Awal (Communication) - Responsible for communicating and keeping the community members well informed with regards the timeline and activities surrounding the project. Draft Special Invites to community stakeholders, graphics and designs in the Ghana Community.

Additional information

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.: The Wikimedia friendly space policy will be implemented during all the Virtual community discussions
If your activities include the use of paid online tools, please describe what tools these are and how you intend to use them.: Zoom - the Zoom Online Meeting App would be used for the online sessions.
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 be translating the untranslated Movement Charter pages into the Igala, Gurene, Dagaare, Dagbani and Moore languages, respectively; Iwuala Lucy; Akwugo; Onwuka Glory; Dnshitobu; Agnes Abah; Sylvaline39; Iwuala Chisom; Ogali Hillary; Alhassan Mohammed Awal

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.

Outcomes

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, I confirm to this.

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

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!

The requested budget and budget breakdown should be in your or recipient’s local currency. We send grant payments preferably in your local currency. In some exceptional cases (e.g. hyperinflation), we allow grant payments to be made in US dollars. If you are requesting a grant in a currency other than your local currency, please reach out to your Program Officer to discuss.

Research (time needed to review, perform analysis, or investigate any information needed to support implementation ideas or planning):
Facilitation (facilitation time including facilitator preparation, meeting facilitation time, and debriefing):700 USD
Documentation (document preparation time, time spent documenting of discussion, post-meeting work):200 USD
Translation (translation costs for briefs and global materials): 300 USD
Coordination (coordinator work to manage or support multiple workflows to prepare for meeting): 200 USD
Online tools or services (subscription services for online meeting platforms, social media promotion): 150 USD
Data (internet or mobile costs for organizers or participants to access or participate in activities): 300 USD (for the 4 sessions)
Graphics (For catchy designs in publicity and communication): 50 USD
Bank Charge: 50 USD
Contingency: 50 USD

TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED IN LOCAL CURRENCY: 2000 USD (3,186,880 NGN)

Completing your application

Once you have completed the application, please do the following:

Change the application status from status=draft to status=proposed in the {{Probox}} template.
Contact strategy2030 wikimedia.org to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.

Endorsements

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!

Strong support

This project will encourage community engagement, Sensitizing new Community members and those who have not been reached since the conception of the movement Strategy program is a great idea. This initiative will ensure equity in decision making. However, translating the movement charter pages to Igala and Gurene languages is another inclusive measure to include these Communities. I strongly support this initiative.

Akwugo (talk) 05:02, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Strong support This project will help to improve the knowledge of members of Wikimedia Communities about Movement Charter. Chidex02 (talk) 05:06, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Strong support To enlighten Members on Movement strategy to improve engagement. I strongly recommend. Lebron jay (talk) 05:18, 13 March 2024 (UTC)Lebron jay

Strong support A great initiative that will serve as an eye opener and a guide for an improvement about movement strategy in our community. Senator Choko (talk) 06:12, 13 March 2024 (UTC)Senator Choko

This project is very apt and effective to guide the subsaharan Africans on the part of Movement charter as a mirror to viewing and enhancing the Movement Strategy. I, Onwuka Glory (talk) 07:38, 13 March 2024 (UTC)do append my signature. Strong support

Strong support This conversation will be an avenue for sensitization in the communities for both new and existing members and it will open the eyes of the community members to what the movement strategy is all about. I strongly support and recommend that this conversation be carried out in the communities. Ogalihillary (talk) 16:17, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

For new impact Iwuala chisom (talk) 20:30, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Strong support This project will encourage community engagement and also improve new Community members and those who have not been reached since the conception of the movement Strategy program.Adakaibe (talk) 09:42, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Strong support a better way to reach new Wiki members and sustain old members in letting them understand what the strategy is all about with reference to translating them in local languagesOby Ezeilo (talk) 11:11, 17 March 2024 (UTC)