Grants:Regions/South Asia/hi
This region includes the following countries: अफ़्ग़ानिस्तान; बांग्लादेश; भूटान; भारत; मालदीव; नेपाल; पाकिस्तान; श्रीलंका.
Program Officer
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Regional calendar
Please reach out to your Program Officer if you are interested in applying before making any application or if you need flexibility on dates.
९ अगस्त – ९ सितम्बर २०२४
Applicant support and eligibility check
९ सितम्बर २०२४
Renewal deadline
९ सितम्बर २०२४
Submission deadline
९ सितम्बर – ३१ अक्टूबर २०२४
Review and translation
३१ अक्टूबर – १५ नवम्बर २०२४
Review feedback and applicant engagement
२९ नवम्बर २०२४
Decision announced
१३ दिसम्बर २०२४ – १७ जनवरी २०२५
Agreement and first payment
१ जुलाई – ३१ जुलाई २०२५
Midpoint conversation
३० जनवरी २०२६ / ३१ मार्च २०२६
Final or first year report due
१४ फ़रवरी – १३ मार्च २०२५
Applicant support and eligibility check
१४ मार्च २०२५
Renewal deadline
१३ मार्च २०२५
Submission deadline
१३ मार्च – २१ अप्रैल २०२५
Review and translation
२१ अप्रैल – ५ मई २०२५
Review feedback and applicant engagement
२३ मई २०२५
Decision announced
६ जून – ३० जून २०२५
Agreement and first payment
१५ जनवरी २०२६
Midpoint conversation
३१ जुलाई २०२६ / १५ अगस्त २०२६
Final or first year report due
Contact us
Rapid Fund
If you want to apply or if have any questions about the Rapid Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: sa_rapid
wikimedia.org
General Support Fund
If you have any questions about the General Support Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: sa_fund wikimedia.org
Regional Committee
- आर्या जोशी, अगस्त २०२१ - Contributor to Marathi Wikimedia projects and works with many not for profit organizations in Maharashtra. A passionate researcher and enthusiastic learner always.
- Balajijagadesh, अगस्त २०२१ - Open source enthusiast, active in community engagement activities in Tamil Wiki projects. Contributes to Wikisource and Wikidata.
- Medhavigandhi, अगस्त २०२१ - Lead Co-organizer at Art+Feminism, active in GLAM space, open GLAM work; leads The Heritage Lab project.
- Nawaraj Ghimire, अगस्त २०२१ - Wikimedian contributing to the Wikipedia in Classroom project and outreach activities in Nepal.
- Tarunno, अक्टूबर २०२१ - Wikimedian active in Bangla Wikimedia projects. Open source enthusiast.
- Nabin K. Sapkota, अगस्त २०२४ - Event and outreach co-ordiantor in projects under Wikimedians of Nepal
- Ravidreams, अगस्त २०२४ - Serving Tamil Wikimedia projects since 2005. Have worked with the Wikimedia India Chapter and the WMF in the past towards the development of South Asian Wikimedia communities through various programs like Project Tiger.
Conversation hours
Questions from Office hour 27 July 2021
- User:Manavpreet Kaur
- For Organizations asking for Staff support, will their salaries/remuneration be considered as income?
Criteria of eligibility, are non-affiliate groups eligible? As discussed, their eligibility consideration is dependent on what the committee feels about them. How aware is the committee of all such groups’?
- Considering some mentorship programs are being discussed within affiliates, there might be a chapter supporting a user group to organize, plan and run some activities. So who would apply for this grant? The trainer or the trainee?
- In continuation of the last question, say both apply for grant for specific activities, but one regional committee approves but other refuses. How will the CRS team evaluate such cases?
- About Alliance funding, will it only be available to nonprofits or for profit organizations as well?
Regarding specific funds allocation for a region, if we are actually going to promote this funding for underrepresented communities, considering there are other major grantees in the region, cushion might not be sufficient.
- So what if there is an Allied organization asking for funds for the first time and come up with a great plan for engagement in India and ask for an equal or more amount than the existing grantees, would you consider funding the new organization?
- Are there any plans on training the regional committees? Or How will you ensure that everybody who's on the regional committee, irrespective of the region, is trained on similar standards?
- All communities stand at different levels regarding the sensitivity towards various aspects of engagement, grants, etc. Are there any plans for sensitization activities?
- Drafting Grants’ policies- Will the process be inclusive to the community for review?
- If an affiliate is being supported by other grantees in the region, will this association act as a barrier for the grant the affiliate wishes to apply directly for expansion of the group's activities?
- About Grant structure, would there be a Global criteria or would there be a regional criteria for evaluation & funding?
- When we're talking about increasing the funding opportunities for the under-represented communities, Do you have any kind of plans on capacity building? *Like designing a pilot for new Affiliates, identifying some, extending training on handling finances and later they apply for a grant. This will enable them to efficiently apply for & manage future grants. This will be an actual capacity building and increasing the funding to the underrepresented communities. Otherwise like, or is it just an opportunity without any capacity building support.
- User:Bodhisattwa
- How will Rapid Funds support long term but short budget projects as it is written that it is only meant for short term projects?
- Will individuals or smaller affiliates have to compete with big players w.r.t. General Support Fund,?
- How will you ensure legally to make the grant applicants submit the reports and financial receipts?
- How will you prevent people from disappearing with the money or submit vague/false reports?
- How will the transparency of the grant projects be ensured?
- What is the transaction limit by which an individual will not face FCRA wrath from the Government and how will it be ensured to remove the FCRA barrier for smaller affiliates?
- If an individual/affiliate wants to hire a paid person to execute some project, how will the money be transferred to that person?
- What will be the exact legal way to save tax when money comes to someone’s account for a project?
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