Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiForHumanRights 2024 in Burundi (ID: 22314853)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Ferdinand IF99

Organization

Wikimedians of Burundi group (not recognized affiliate)

If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)

I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.

Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)

In Planning Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi I am a leader of Burundian community, the community aim to empowering the community through promotion of sharing free knowledge through various wikimedia projects. The group managing various projects in Burundi such as WikiLoves Africa, WikiLoves Earth, WPWP WikiLoves Women/she said, etc.

Main Proposal

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

WikiForHumanRights 2024 in Burundi

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

2024-05-26 - 2024-06-26

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

Burundi

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)

The WikiForHumanRights 2024 Campaign in Burundi aims to cultivate awareness and involvement at the intersection of human rights and sustainability within Burundian community. Our mission is to put accent to the importance of sharing free knowledge in general and related to human right in particular , we will empower individuals by providing accessible, accurate, and localized knowledge on human rights issues, with a particular emphasis on their connection to fostering a sustainable future. We have Burundian Wikimedians in different province of Burundi, it will be an opportunity to promote sharing knowledge, and knowledge related to human rights among Burundian community. We seek to inspire proactive engagement in promoting human rights and environmental protection. Through this Campaign we will raise awareness on the right to a healthy environment, writing and modifying articles related to human rights. We aim to spark positive change and encourage active participation in shaping a future that prioritizes human rights

main approaches to achieve it:

Raise local awareness about freely sharing knowledge in general and related to human rights in Burundi.

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.

1.Training of participants in writing articles on Wikimedia Wikipedia ; 2.Awareness of the competition, through amelioration, modification of articles on Wikipedia ; 3. Introduction of wikicommons, wikidata and wikisource for new and existing contributors; 4. Photo walk, participants will learn essential skills for taking pictures and they will take pictures to upload on wikicommons 4. Closing campaign, 5 Awards + Best female contributor would be given to outstanding contributors involved in the campaign.

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.

Ferdinand IF99 : Project lead, a volunteer who will lead the overall project development and implementation activities, facilitate access to the areas targeted by this project, ensuring compliance to the grant commitments and reporting to the Project on progress and status of campaign.

Gilbert Ndihokubwayo: Co-organizer, a volunteer in charge of partnership. His role is to mobilize people around the project, co-train interested in participating to the campaign.

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)

The WikiForHumanRights 2024 Campaign in Burundi will accept every interested to participate. Every person, being Burundians or not, Wikimedian or not having Knowledge about wikimedia projects or not, will be welcome to participate. Before and during the activities, we will engage the participants through the communication, organization of meetings. In order to follow up the participants after the activities, encourage the participants to join our communication channels to still in contact with the participants.

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.

N/A

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.

The project is discussed with our community members through our channels of communication. We mainly use our WhatsApp group of communication to interact with members where we collect opinions and views of the members about our community or activities. When the project is about to be implemented, we will use information posters to advertise and call for new volunteers; we will use social media and internal communication channels to advertise the event. Offline Discussions and Meetings with existing Burundi wikimedians to mobilize participants.

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)

Geography

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

Human Rights

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

Gender Identity

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

Improve User Experience

Learning and metrics

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

Was the contest useful to recruit new members for our community? How many articles modified and created? How is the understanding of participants on Human right? what are interest of new volunteers in joining Wikimedia community

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	35	The number of all members who will participate in the campaign
Number of editors	30	The number of contributors to the project
Number of organizers	3	Community members who will be implicated in organizing the contest activities.

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	50
Wikimedia Commons	200
Wikidata	250
Wiktionary
Wikisource	3
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

N/A

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

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
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N/A	N/A	N/A

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)

In order to measure metrics we will use tools like Outreach Dashboard

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b4KH2QLPNC3OVoIRNwpU8KapxSCP_DM6WMSzK4KOAuc/edit#gid=0

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

7066378.1 BIF

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.

2482 USD

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).

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