Grants:Project/Rapid/NanaYawBotar/Wiki-Green Conference

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NanaYawBotar/Wiki-Green Conference

The project seeks to highlight the impact of Climate change and Environmental Pollution on Human rights and how Wikimedia projects can be leveraged in providing solutions.

targetEnglish Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons

start date7 April

end date30 April

budget (local currency)GhC 18200

budget (USD)US$ 2838.33

grantee• NanaYawBotar

contact(s)• nanayawbotargmail.com

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Project Goal

Briefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant. Example goals include, "recruit new editors", "add high quality content", or "train existing editors on a specific skill".

1. Recruit new editors.
2. Increase the usage of Wikimedia projects.
3. Add High quality content on Climate change and Human rights.

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?

The Conference is a two day event that will bring together Climate and environmental activists, advocates, experts, academia and young people to discuss the adverse impact of Climate Change and environmental pollution on the rights and freedom of Ghanaians and how they can leverage on the Wikimedia Projects to create awareness and search solutions. We organize two events. One in Accra to cover the southern part of the country and the other in Kumasi for the Northern sector.

How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience?

Promotional flyers will be created and promoted online through various social media platforms. Invitation will be sent to identified stakeholder groups like environmental and climate groups, youth groups, academia, persons living with disabilities, etc.

What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?

• An outreach dashboard will be created to track the contribution of participants.
• Participants will be encouraged to join existing wikimedia Communities eg; Wikimedians for Sustainable Development.

Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

[Risk Assessment]

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more specific to your project:

1. Number of total participants: 60
2. Number of articles created or improved : 200+

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is the organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

• Stephen Dakyi is an experienced editor and event organizer, He is the project lead of the Ghana Histo Cita-thon project and the Founder of [| DABY Foundation].
• Maxwell Beganim is an experience editor and trainer. He is a climate activist and a member of [|Strategic Youth Network for Development].
• Otuo Akyampong-Boakye is an experience editor and trainer. He is an Environmental Scientist, Climate Action Advocate, Teacher, Youth Activist and the founder of [| Eco- Warrior Movement].

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:

ITEM	DETAILS	UNIT GHS	QUANTITY	TOTAL
Facilitators Allowance	Each team member will be provided with data and transport allowance.	1500	3	4500
Venue	Venue for the Edith-a-thon	800	2	1600
	Projector	200	2	400
	Data	500	2	1000
Food/Refreshment	30 people have been estimated to participate in each event.	75	60	4500
Promotion and publicity	Branded T-Shirts for top 60 Participants	40	60	2400
	Branded Face masks and hand sanitizers	30	60	1800
	Designing and Printing of Event Flyers, backdrop and social media campaign etc.	1000	N/A	1000
	Stationery	500	N/A	500
Miscellaneous	Unforeseen events	500	N/A	500
TOTAL GHS				18200
1USD = 6.41223 GHS (Oanda exchange - 08/02/2022)
TOTAL USD				2838.33

Endorsements

 Strong support<nowiki> I Strongly Endorse this Project~~

• I strongly endorse this project Baah Thomas (talk) 13:00, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
• I support this project because it will help to leverage on the knowledge of climate activists in Ghana while helping to recruit them into the community pambelle12 (talk) 11:17, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
• I strongly endorse this project. Azorbli (talk)
•  Strong support I think this project will help to educate people on Climate issues and its effects on the environment. It will also increase the use of Wikimedia activities. daSupremo 22:33, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong support I strongly support this project because because I believe it will help increase content on Wikipedia.S A Habadah (talk) 11:51, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong support I support this project because it touches on an important challenge being faced by the world today and would also provide content on Wikipedia. Niiarmahktagoe (talk) 16:36, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong supportfor this initiative and believe it will go a long way to increase community engagement in terms of human rights. Jwale2 (talk) 07:43, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong support I support this project because of the impact and the context which it is being applied particularly on human rights and the environment.xibitgh (talk) 09:43, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong support I support this initiative because it will disseminate knowledge about climate change. Selorm18 (talk) 20:43, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong support This project will help more people especially the attendees to appreciate the importance of wikipedia and hopefully can join Wikipedia editors to contribute to the sum of knowledge we have Dnshitobu (talk) 16:47, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong supportfor this initiative I sincerely believe it will go a long way to increase community engagement and new recruits to our community Joris Darlington Quarshie (talk) 23:10, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong support I Strongly Endorse this Project -- Robertjamal12 ~🔔 00:09, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong supportThis program will provide a common platform for persons within that sector to full explore Wikipedia from the SDG 13 perspective. Uprising Man (talk) 12:50, 14 February 2022 (UTC)