Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiForHumanRights 2024 Ghana (ID: 22571568)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

CoachAni

Organization

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Main Proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

WikiForHumanRights 2024 Ghana

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2024-06-01 - 2024-07-31

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Ghana

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

WikiForHumanRights

6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)

Climate change is touching every facet of our lives, and Africa, in particular, is feeling its severe effects. News reports from various African countries highlight the challenges, with some facing devastating floods and others grappling with drought-induced food insecurities. Governments and youth organizations in many African countries, including Ghana, have been increasingly recognizing the urgent need to address the impacts of climate change. The government of Ghana is developing and implementing policies aimed at mitigating and adapting to climate change such as regulations on emissions, sustainable land use, and protection of natural resources amongst others. Young researchers and innovators are also conducting studies on climate change impacts specific to Ghana which can contribute to evidence-based policymaking and community resilience strategies. Considerable documentation exists regarding Ghana's policies and adaptation strategies. However, these valuable resources and information often suffer from low visibility on the web, and their content is occasionally challenging to comprehend due to the usage of complex English language. We have also seen that not many wikipedia editors like to write about this subject as it can be complicated . Moreover, many of these existing articles on Wikipedia are not up to date. This visibility gap not only affects the broader public but also hampers informed decision-making among policymakers, researchers, and practitioners.

To address this challenge, we will train students from the climate change and sustainability center on Wikipedia, engage them in a knowledge gap mapping exercise on Wikipedia and use the identified gaps as assignments for their class work. On the other hand we will engage experienced wikipedians to help bridge some of the knowledge gaps articles identified and also make it available in other languages We also want to ensure that others can have this information in selected local languages like Dagbani, Twi, Hausa, etc. This can help increase the visibility of information around climate and sustainability and Gender intersection topics about Ghana. Wikipedia stands as one of the world's most widely used platforms with strong online visibility. Documenting this information can increase visibility of this knowledge on the web and make it accessible in multiple languages.

7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.

The following activities that would span over a 2-month period aligning to our strategies would be adopted:

Map knowledge gaps on Wikipedia relating to climate change, sustainability and gender in Ghana Engage in a mapping exercise to identify English Wikipedia articles about climate change, sustainability and gender that do not cover local knowledge relating to Ghana and list of new articles about the subject that are missing on Wikipedia. We would leverage our existing partnership with the Center for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies (C3SC) Department at the University of Ghana to engage their postgraduate (masters) students who would adopt the mapping exercise as a class assignment. In addition to the manual article list, we would also use list building tools to identify additional articles for the project work list. Build and empower a community of knowledge experts to contribute climate change, sustainability and gender content relating to Ghana on Wikipedia Organize a series of online and in-person training sessions for the Masters students of Center for Climate Change and Sustainability Department at the University of Ghana to learn how to contribute the subject knowledge on Wikipedia. These training sessions would focus on Wikipedia introduction, editing, Wikimedia Commons upload, content translation, and Wikidata in preparation for the content building activities. Build knowledge about climate change, sustainability and gender relating to Ghana on Wikimedia projects Organize different audience focused writing, editing, translating and photowalk activities to contribute content relating to climate change, sustainability and gender in Ghana on Wikimedia projects. This includes engaging the trained students of C3SC department at the University of Ghana to use their acquired skills to work on the list of articles identified through the mapping exercise to improve local knowledge on the subject areas. Experienced Wikimedians from Women for Sustainability Africa and the WaleWale Wiki hub would also be engaged on the worklist generated on the mapping exercise to improve articles and create Wikidata items relating to the topic. The engagement of these two groups forms part of the contest activity to improve content in the related topics in English, Twi and Hausa languages. In addition, experienced wikimedians from other communities in Ghana would embark on a photowalk and video project to document environment and ocean pollution in Ghana on Wikimedia commons. The videos would capture the effects of pollution on the Ghana environment and oceans as well as the dangers it portrays for the citizens. The images on the other hand, would show how human behavior in Ghana pollutes the environment. Create awareness about climate change, sustainability and gender topics in Ghana Organize advocacy campaigns through the videos curated during the photowalk activity of the content drive. These videos and images would be shared with some of the agencies advocating for environmental and ocean pollution to use for educating the local population on the dangers of environment and ocean pollution in Ghana and use that to encourage behavioral changes to ensure a sustainable future for the people.

8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.

CoachAni - Lead Organizer and group leader/founder of Women for Sustainability Africa, a non-profit organization advancing environmental sustainability and women empowerment.

W4S Coordinating team Ewurabena Moore - Coordinator Nicholas Sedor- Administrator at W4SAfrica Kwadwo Owusu 2020 - Designs and Communication manager, Wikipedia Volunteer and member of W4S Team

Trainers Ruby D-Brown- Volunteer/ Advisor Milanov- Volunteer/Trainer Jwale - Volunteer Trainer /Advisor

Tamale Wiki Hub Organizers User:Christian Yakubu - Tamale Wiki Hub Leader User:Kashifatu - Assistant at the Tamale Wiki Hub user:Knoweldge and philosophy- Tamale Wiki Hub Leader

Username: Esthee2010- Photowalk and videos content creator

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? (required)

Target participants will be from Ghana. Students from the center for climate change and sustainability studies, Women for Sustainability Africa Wikipedia Community , Tamale Wiki Hub, Photo community in Accra and Central region

10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)

No

10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.

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11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.

We have engaged in discussions with the Deputy Director at the department of Center for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies about our intention. We have also engaged our community members about the campaign and they are very excited about the opportunity to contribute. We have also informed and collaborated with the coordinators for the Walewale wiki hub activities, and Francis for video and photo walk activities, Women for Sustainability Africa participation, University of Ghana Center for Climate change and Sustainability Department to design the programs and proposal writing. We have also let the Wikimedia movement be aware of the project by adding your activity on the community events table on the campaign meta page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_Community_Events. We have also informed the Anglophone Africa regional coordinator, Ruby about the project who is also engaged as an advisor on the project.

12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Climate Change and sustainability

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Geographic

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Identify Topics for Impact

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

Which of the strategies is most effective for building local knowledge relating to climate change, sustainability and gender topics. What of the content forms (articles, images, videos, wikidata items) generated do people find most useful and why? What are the most effective ways for engaging knowledge experts to contribute climate change topics on Wikimedia projects? What are the most effective ways for engaging partners on climate knowledge building projects? How do Wikimedia Volunteer find editing about climate change topics Did volunteers find useful resources to help their contributions What other topics did volunteers find useful to contribute What was their experience translating climate change articles

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	100	In person and online participants in the various regions
Number of editors	90
Number of organizers	10

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	200
Wikimedia Commons	150
Wikidata	200
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

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19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
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20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)

We will use event metrics and Dashboard We will also use event registration tool to register participants

Financial proposal

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o3vef9nmJpGzc6n4cjz19CsfW1tJCRlJ/edit#gid=2098099883

22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

63598 GHS

22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.

4865.95 USD

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Yes

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