Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/SBOC-Knowledge Coorproduction for A Kenya National Community-Led Recovery Action Strategy for endangered Beisa Oryx (ID: 22153080)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
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- Organization
Nakuprat-Gotu Community Conservancy
- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
SBOC-Knowledge Coorproduction for A Kenya National Community-Led Recovery Action Strategy for endangered Beisa Oryx
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
Local
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
https://www.facebook.com/SaveBeisaOryxProgram http://savebeisaoryx.co.ke/ http://www.sboc-kenya.org
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Conservation action by indigenous communities’ initiative in northern Kenya; Save Beisa Oryx & Community resilience initiative (SBOC) is providing hope for the future of the endangered Beisa oryx in the region. Oryx Beisa has most recently been assessed for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2018 and listed as Endangered under criteria A2bd. as numbers have declined by an estimated 52% (49-55%). Despite the SBOC systemic conservation efforts, optimization of the recovery actions to result to increased population of the angulate has not been explored. In reference to the 2021 population census, their numbers have been declining due to subsistence poaching and habitat loss caused by growing human settlements and overgrazing of livestock (Oryx Aerial Survey, 2021). To date, there isn’t much hard data on how many less-popular species lack direct conservation funding or assistance, but anecdotally, it’s a lot. If you look on IUCN’s website, you’ll see that there is no systematic monitoring scheme. This is not uncommon because there are so many species that need help and there is currently not enough time or resources. There are many species that are “data deficient,” meaning we just don’t even have enough data on them to really know what to do. When I searched “Beisa oryx” in Google Scholar, I was surprised to find very few papers on this species. Not much is known about the species composition, population sizes and densities of wildlife species in north-eastern Kenya. Banditry, inaccessibility due to poor roads and neglect (political and economic) from the Kenya Government have collectively contributed to the restricted ecological studies in this region. Moreover, subsequent pandemics; COVID 19, Ukrain War and severe and prolonged drought in northern Kenya have led to enhanced threats to the species, hence information availability is critical for planning, the national recovery action strategy development and knoweldege availabilit in e-libraries like Wikimedia.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
SBOC seeks USD 5000 from Wikimedia foundation to implement urgently the following strategies; Collaborative action status review; This strategy entails evaluation and description of current situation, including any relevant scientific data the endangered Beisa Oryx species. The local and scientific information will be collected through desk reviews, literature reviews and field data collection. Mostly the information to be collated will be the bio-information of the species, ecological and habitual characteristics, IUCN status information, other publications of the species, indigenous communities’ knowledge, habitat and pasture preference, current population status, current recovery actions in place, a feasibility analysis of and the current recovery action. Regional and National levels Stakeholders Workshops; To ensure validation of the data collected is done, the action will conduct a 60-membership local conservation stakeholder’s forum to validate the data and commission the draft recovery action as a local-regional recovery action strategy for the species. Then further, the action will support legislation-In cooperation of the new strategy locally and nationally. Prior this the action will conduct a 120 membership national conservation stakeholders’ workshop, that will validate and review further the availed information validated by the local stakeholder’s workshop. Involve All Approach and Project Sustenance; To ensure success of the collaborative process to develop a national recovery action strategy, the action will endeavor to involve all the stakeholders. Moreover, the action will contribute towards the recovery of the initiative and the conservancy from the detrimental effects of subsequent pandemics; COVID 19, Ukrain War and the severe drought, through enhancing Community policing and SBOC Ambassadors resilient habitat reforestation.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Conduct collaborative action status revies of endangered Beisa Oryx species and habitat, through an Evaluation and description of Beisa Oryx species’ current situation, including any relevant scientific data. Data Collating and standardizing of available Beisa Oryx species scientific metadata. A critical and inclusive analysis of scientific data and traditional knowledge and drafting of recovery action strategy for Beisa Oryx and Legislation-In cooperation of a 5-year recovery action strategy of Beisa Oryx through a regional and national stakeholders validation workshops. Then we will conduct actions to enhance community policing and SBOC Ambassadors habitat restoration initiative through, support to SBOC technical and operational gaps within staff, Recovery action Enforce rangers and the community Forest Monitoring and Management Scouts. The Rangers are dedicated to anti-poaching patrols and support to SBOC Ambassadors indigenous trees propagation nursery bank and contribute towards the annual community trees planting drive planting 25,000 trees annually with a target of 1,000,00 trees planted by 2030. These will be delivered through a practical framework approach of SBOC within Nakuprat-Gotu Community Conservancy, that comprises of 12 Recovery Action Enforce Rangers, 12 Community Forest Monitoring scouts and a network of 24 Conservation Ambassadors Self Help Groups that comprise 163 volunteers spread across the community conservancies.
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
These will be delivered through a practical framework approach of SBOC within Nakuprat-Gotu Community Conservancy, that comprises of 12 Recovery Action Enforce Rangers, 12 Community Forest Monitoring scouts and a network of 24 Conservation Ambassadors Self Help Groups that comprise 163 volunteers spread across the community conservancies. The Technical staff who will be involved in the action will be; Galagalo Hussein-Chairman-Conservancy Board of Trustees; The conservancy Board of Trustees (BOT) are mandated in a volunteer basis to govern and manage the conservancy on behalf of the community. Through the BOT Chairman, the BOT participates in making decisions within strategic community and conservancy development issues. He is not salaried. Paul Edonga-SBOC Founder/Executive Director; He is the overall in‐charge of the Conservancy SBOC Program, He is the technical person in thie project. He is responsible for overall coordination and liaison with Wikimidia and other partners, ensuring results are consistent with research objectives, and that all activities are carried out in a manner acceptable by the research and Wikimidia standards. He ensures clear record keeping, accurate budgeting and compliance with donor financial procedures. He is a salaried employee. Ambrose Epua-Field Program Officer; He works closely with the SBOC Ambassadors Chairpersons and the Conservancy Rangelands committee. He is in charge of Beisa Oryx and other dependent wildlife monitoring and reporting, in liaison with the asst Warden he ensures anti-poaching and security patrols by the Conservancy and Beisa dedicated Rangers are efficiently executed. He co-ordinates projects implementation and reporting; He is a salaried employee. Pascal Kirion-Project Research Assistant; Reporting to the Field Program Officer with close working relationship with the conservancy Manager, he is responsible for all ecological monitoring in NGCC with specially focus on Beisa Oryx and other dependent wildlife species, he leads planning, surveying and recording of key species and monitoring Beisa Oryx status and profiling them through physical observation and data entry and maintenance of Wildlife, Social and Vegetation COMMs (Conservancy Management Monitoring System) and producing regular reports with spatial analysis to Program and Conservancy senior management. He is a salaried employee. Hilda Akai-Finance and Admin Officer; she Is in‐charge of managing the entire NGCC-SBOC projects finances and administration including the proposed project. She Is in‐charge of the day-to-day financial accounting for the project under the supervision of the Technical Director. She corrects, process and reconcile accounting documents, compile and review information for accuracy and maintain records. She is a salaried employee.
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Content Gender gap, Age (regency), Geography, Language, Socioeconomic Status, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
A systematic evaluation of the status of the species through critical and inclusive analysis of scientific data and traditional knowledge through involvement of the communities and stakeholders. This study will result to availability of well collated scientific and local knowledge information of the endangered Beisa Oryx species to inform the development of a 5-year Kenya-National Recovery Action plan Strategy that intergrates community resilience in the recovery of the species..
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Advocacy, Public Policy, Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Disabilities, Socioeconomic status, Age, Digital Access
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The recovery action as a national policy will emphasize equitable and inclusive economic growth of the communities protecting the endangered Beisa Oryx species. The indigenous poor communities in the drylands of northern Kenya urgently need these integrated solutions. The project will promote and restore community production systems and facilitate the empowerment of sustainable livelihood opportunities. This will halt subsistence charcoal burning, poaching, and hunting.
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- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
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- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
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- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
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Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
0 USD
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