Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/EduWiki 2022 in South Sudan (ID: 21908594)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2022-11-15T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: EduWiki 2022 in South Sudan
- Username of Applicant: Lomoraronald
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 3550
- Amount spent: 3550 USD, 2307500 SGD
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
We used the school outreach Model to reach out to students and teachers(instructors) from the Juba Christian school in Juba, South Sudan. The students and teachers had a Wikimedia awareness and a peer-to-peer module for training students and teachers.
We managed to aware the teachers, and students and as well trained them on how they could be contributors to the Wikimedia space (projects ) we focused on Wikipedia, and Wikicommons as the main projects that we provided awareness to, the teachers and students.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Yes! The strategy of Peer to Peer learning was such a practical methodology, where trained young wikimedians in the capital juba, we again used as co-facilitators during this training and awareness, this local approach aided in the ease of learning and understanding the relevance of all that we taught, we also used audio-visual tutorials, which we had access to, to be able to inform the students and teachers about the relevance and their participation.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
N/A
4. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Strongly agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Strongly agree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly agree |
5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
As a country of 64 tribes very multi-cultural, bringing students from different ethnic representations was an add-on to our level of diversity and we see later students promising to be able to take initiatives in creating content about their communities.
Part 2: Your main learning edit
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
- We realized that there was very little content about the history of the country and the geography that was documented on Wikimedia, and as well most of the existing content not being written by south Sudanese youths students or citizens, we also found out that adding content about the culture had a heritage of south Sudan is such a topic of the impact that affects both social and educational aspects of the country
7. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences?
We managed to have very interested teachers and students in the Wikimedia projects something we expected but not to the extent we managed to get since Wikimedia as a whole has not been aware that enough in our communities.
8. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
We now have a priority in creating more content about the culture, heritage, history, and forefathers of south Sudan and representing the responsibilities of women whilst creating an impact in those days and using this information to reshape the narrative presentation of women in the freedom fighting of the country but also providing educational resources for the history, literature and geography classes of south Sudan schools
9. Documentation of resources: Use this space to upload any documents that would be useful to share with others (e.g. communications material, training material, presentations).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
https://twitter.com/search?q=EDUWIKI%20SOUTH%20SUDAN&src=typed_query
Part 3: Metrics edit
10a. Open Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined some open metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with your metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Challeneges in accessing internet | This shall help me to understand the extent at which internet penetration affects the students or teachers from either using or contributing to wikimedia | 30 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Challenges in the access to education resources | These answers shall aid in tackling the relevance of Wikimedia in education to filling in the gap of enhancing education, and these demographics shall help in understanding how to deploy solutions for the challenges mentioned | 30 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
10b. Core Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined targets for some core metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with each core metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had. Note: a table will appear for each Wikimedia project content contribution you defined in your proposal.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 20 Upper primary and secondary students in the schools
10 teachers in the schools selectec |
30 | 30 | We had members form the Juba Christian school and teachers and students | |
| Number of editors | The editors shall be from the team trained (teachers and Students) | 30 | 30 | we trained and managed to have all the people who attended as editors | |
| Number of organizers | We shall have a number of 4 organizers
Lomora Ronald- Mobiliser Alice - Trainer Sandra - Ass Trainer EFFS - Mobiliser partner organisation |
4 | 10 | instead we had quite a number increase in the number of organisers |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Add articles and edit articles | 30 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | Upload Photos | 30 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | Use the photos uploaded in Wikipedia articles | 20 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikidata | Add Wiki Items from existing and new articles created | 50 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
12. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? This could include things like a lack of time or resources, or the expertise in your team to collect this data. It could also include difficulties with particular data collection tools.
Yes
12a. State what difficulties you had.
- Internet connectivity
- security issues
12b. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges?
We were faced with poor internet connectivity that affected the output by the number of articles that were created but by the follow-up program we believe we can rectify this by having a reliable intent source As a running institution, we were expected to have registered as an NGO which we haven't, and faced issues with authority we managed to partner with already registered organizations to run our events but also the registration is on plan
13. Use this space to upload any documents and provide links to any tools you have used that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, program and event dashboard link, project page on Meta).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
N/A
14. Have you shared these results with other Wikimedian communities (either affiliates, user groups, volunteers, etc., different to yours)? This can include things such as data and direct outcomes, lessons you have learned, or information on how to run or recreate your programs.
No
14a. If yes or partially, please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance edit
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
2307500 SGD
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
3550 USD
17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
17a. Upload a financial report file.
17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YvQourR5lUM9PcrONXDvsC2qAHC3KrahkmORD6zAsEY/edit
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
17c. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
We had a change in the rate of exchange in south Sudan, and this affected quite a number of figures as far as our spending of the funds was concerned
18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
19. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes
20. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
21. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
Yes
22. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
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