Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania/Movement Strategy-Priotization Discussion/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2017-18 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
Yes.We are happy that this time the participation was good and more members joined the prioritization discussion event.

Outcome

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We are happy that we were able to raise awareness about the existence of regional and global Movement Strategy events to more members and through these discussions we were able to discuss more about the upcoming projects and activities within our community.Morever we were able to merge the Universal Code of Conduct discussion (Facilitated by WMF represenattive Mervat Salman), the discussions were so fruitfully interms of creating awareness on global movement ongoing discsussions, participation of the Wikimedians in those activities and understanding of the next steps both locally and globally.In these discussion atleast 34 participants actively engaged in the discussions and participated to give their thoiughts and endorsement to the prioritizations that were suggestedduring the firt local prioritization event on 19 Nov 2020.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Encourage community participation	We were able to involve more members to join our discussion on prioritizing the recommendations and initiatives. Locally this was the second event after the one we did on 19 November 2020	Goal was met
Coordinate community and Lead discussion on priotization of the 10 Strategy Recommendations	The participants were able to review all the recommendations and initiatives that were suggested during the first discussion, through it more insights were added on top of it but generally there was a common agreement on the prioritized recommendations and initiatives.	Goal met
Document implementation ideas related to movement strategy	The prioritized recommendations and initiatives as well as additional ideas from the participants were documented on the google document.These ideas will be updated on to the our our meta page	Goal met
Do translation of strategy related materials into Swahili language	We were able to translate the key Wikimedia 2030 / Movement strategy pages. The translated global materials includes the Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Recommendations and Movement Strategy/Initiatives	Goal met
Disseminate information about movement strategy recommendations to the community	We were able to share the needed information to all members about the movement strategy recommendations and its related global discussions.	Goal was met

Learning

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What worked well?
- Participants were active in engaging in the discussions.
- Internet support was so helpful for the participants to join the online discussions
- Good number of participants (atleast 34) whoactively participated in these discussions was an encouraging thing that people now have the knowledge on movement strategy.
- It was nice having a WMF staff to facilitate the Universal Code of Conduct discussion, which seemed to inspire women to actively participate in the movement.

What did not work so well?
- COVID 19 issues was a hindrance to an inperson gathering that could have been more fruitful in terms of engaging more people.
What would you do differently next time?
- Hosting an inperson discussions if the COVID 19 situation in our country will allow it. This is to ensure more participation.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

The fund was used as indicated below:

Item	Quantity	Proposed amount (USD)	Actual amount (USD)	Comments
Facilitation	atleast 4hrs@30	120	139	Facilitation time including facilitator preparation, meeting facilitation time, and debriefing
Documentation : 5hrs@30=150 USD	1	150	150	Document preparation time, time spent documenting of discussion, post-meeting work)
Translation	atleast 10hrs @30	300	287	Translation costs for briefs and global materials.The translated global materials includes the Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Recommendations and Movement Strategy/Initiatives
Coordination	atleast 7hrs@30	210	210	(coordinator work to manage or support multiple workflows to prepare for meeting):
Internet support	10USD@30	300	300	to participants for for the online call
Communications & Bank rates)ː	4@120USD	120	120	Was used for coordination among facilitators
Supplies & Logistics Transport	1	35	96	wasused for printing stickers
Office hours facilitation for East African communities	atleast 8hrs @30	240	240	Communities facilitated include Kenya and Rwanda with its related coordination activities.
Online tools or services	1	175	148	subscription services for online meeting platforms, social media promotion
TOTAL	=>	1690	1690	USD

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No, the whole fund was used for the project.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Much appreciatioan for the WMF for supporting our community that helped to be part of the global movement