Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign in Nigeria (ID: 22065117)/Final Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign in Nigeria
- Username of Applicant: James Moore200
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 4300
- Amount spent: 4300 USD, 1978425 NGN
Part 1 Understanding your work edit
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
It was really nice to coordinate the annual 2023 WikiForHumanRights campaign in Nigeria.
Online meetings took place as planned with the goal of bridging the taboo on privacy and diffidence in face-to-face meetings between Nigerian Wikipedia writers across different geopoitical areas. Through the offline events, active active members were trained by their local community leaders. We had the local edit-a-thons with face to face and online as a national campaign organiser in Nigeria as we planned as well.The coordination was accomplished with the immense support of the local organisers who signed up for the project.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Engaging in regular meetings with the local organizers proved to be a pivotal aspect of ensuring the smooth progression of the project. These gatherings facilitated open communication channels, allowing for in-depth discussions on project updates, challenges, and potential solutions. The one-on-one follow-ups were particularly beneficial in addressing specific concerns and providing personalized support to key individuals involved in the initiative. By fostering a collaborative environment, the project team was able to harness collective insights, leading to more informed decision-making and agile adjustments to the project's direction.
Furthermore, the distribution of merchandise to participants during the local event, as orchestrated by the local project leads, played a dual role in enhancing both engagement and visibility. Not only did it serve as a token of appreciation for the participants' involvement, fostering a sense of community and goodwill, but it also contributed to the project's overall visibility within the local community. The tangible connection established through these branded items helped reinforce the project's identity and mission among both participants and the broader community, amplifying its impact and reach.
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 | 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?
This project gave the national coordinator the opportunity to interact with leaders of emerging communities across the five selected communities, mainly in four states in Nigeria: Imo, Kwara, Osun and Anambra. Community like Wikimedia Owerri Hub collaborated with the student community (club) within the same state, which was highly commendable.
Eagerness of two new communities that participated, KWASU Fan Club and Ivan Fan Club afforded the leaders the opportunity for growth and impact in their capacity.
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?
Created awareness across various social media platforms like Instagram, Telegram, Facebook, Twitter among others with the goal to create more awareness about the theme: Right To A Healthy Environment. Besides, I created a "community spirit" which was targeted at having more volunteers to participate in climate and environmental related events and organizations. The effort lead to having increase in the bond and collaboration among Nigerian Wikimedians.
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?
The first surprise was the internal leadership change of positions within Kwasu Fan Club. The initial local team lead had concluded her tenure in office before the project started. More so, the delay from the foundation made the project way behind in a whole lot of ways. This has also been discovered to be a recurrent issue within the movement. I hope it gets better and new grantees do not see this loophole as it is not representing the international organisation well in the good light.
Our activities Even though it was well coordinated, a newly established community had a different event due to multiple communication channels.
It is important to state that the fiscal sponsor would have made the exercise better if they had allowed the national coordination to do the expected tasks. My five years as a PM were not considered capable enough. Less attention was given to the project, and national support was greatly minimal, while the impact was not as huge and weighty as it should be.
There was a clash with the 1Lib 1Ref Campaign which brought about working towards providing references to articles that related to the theme by the local organisers. The emerging communities were enjoined so as to make a robust impact.
Volunteer time is not seen as as important as that of full-time staff. I would hope for the better and trust it would have improved both at the foundational level and the fiscal sponsor level.
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?
Yes, my new priority is to embark on project that will be within the timeline agreed with allowance of two months extra. The delay affected but my academic pursuit and another project which did not turn out as expected. It tells me the importance of ensuring the prerequisite needs are adequately supplied within time frame before embarking on any project. The delay encountered was the longest I have ever seen.
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.
N/A
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 250 | More than 10 times of the articles to be edited were edited during the course of the project. | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 300 | We aimed at 300 Wikidata Items which we surpassed also. | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 100 | Over 400 relatable media content was uploaded during this campaign with about 300 hundred media content from the five event orghanisers. | 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 | We plan to have 25 new participants and 75 old/experienced editors during the cause of this program. | 100 | 180 | We had about 200 participants across the five communities that participated in the campaign in 2023.
The national campaign recorded 84 active participants aside from face-to-face events across four places in Nigeria. The fifth location was merged within the same state in Nigeria, which is Imo State. |
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| Number of editors | New and existing editors across Nigeria | 100 | 70 | We made more edits than we had anticipated. There have been over 3,000 edits, and 398 new articles have been added to the Wiki space with priority on local content. | We Used hashtags and outreach dashboards |
| Number of organizers | We would have six local organisers and one national coordinator (my own role).
Each of the six local organisers will help in carrying out the campaign in their respective communities. The six local organisers in Nigeria are: User:RukayatAjeigbe who will be coordinating Osun Wikimedians, User:Bukky658 (coordinator for Wikimedia Fan Club KWASU), User:Pojo07 (coordinator for Wikimedia Fan Club UNILORIN), User:Emmanuel Obiajulu & User:Lucy Iwuala (coordinator for Wikimedia Owerri Hub) and Ngostary2k coordinating Wikipedia Anambra Network. |
7 | 7 | All hands were on deck, and we gave support to one another before, during, and after the campaign at the respective local events that were held. |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | At least 250 edits would be made. | 250 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikidata | At least 300 wikidata items will be added/improved. | 300 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | At least 100 relatable files would be added. | 100 | 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 |
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.
- Delayed Timeline
- Fiscal Sponsor Challenge
- Wikimedia Foundation Protracted decision making
- New Local Organisers Experience
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?
Ask if the local organisers who double as the leaders have past experience or not so as to enrol them for a leadership development programme.
Ascertain the promptness of fiscal sponsor before embarking on the project.
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.
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.
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.
1978425 NGN
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
4300 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/1UNr7A0B_4wOgeZnXsHx4Y7kdozKeIZZ8npKWIytuZ_o
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1T3vj6NWYjXzIUp15eDz4KECe2VEstt6U
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.
N/A
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.
Every one of the local organisers received a Sum of NGN 250,000 direct support from Wikimedia Nigeria with direct financial report to the fiscal sponsor as signed in the individual agreement.
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