Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Action for Climate change in Kogi State Nigeria (ID: 22067773)
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Applicant Details edit
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
AgnesAbah
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
AgnesAbah
udehB
Henry Ojonugwa
- Organization
N/A
- 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.
Igbo Wikimedia User Group Wiki Mentor Africa Code for Africa
Grant Proposal edit
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Action for Climate change in Kogi State Nigeria
- 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.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
The change I am trying to make is to close the geographical knowledge gap of climate change and sustainability related articles in Kogi State Nigeria on wikimedia projects. A petscan i conducted shows that they are no Kogi State climate change articles on wikipedia. However, the state is one of the states in Nigeria that has been most negatively impacted by climate change in terms of flooding and drought.
Kogi State is a confluence to the two largest rivers in west Africa (River Niger And River Benue). During the rainy season, the country consistently suffers heavy rain for a longer period of time resulting from the effects of climate change leading to the rivers overrunning their banks and causing flooding in the State.
The effect of climate change in Kogi State is real, its problem is becoming worse every year since the year 2012. The recent 2022 flooding pounded the state so hard that several houses were submerged, belongings destroyed and forcing people to leave their ancestral homes to settle in internally-displaced people camps. Lives were lost, farmlands and several buildings were flooded. The situation resulted in untold hardship for residents.
If this proposal is implemented, it will close the geographical knowledge gap regarding the effects of climate change in Kogi State Nigeria on wikimedia projects, and inspire individuals to alter their views on climate change in order to lessen the effects.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
I plan to work with group of young, passionate Nigerians from Kogi State to join the campaign so that they can share information about flood and drought in the state on wikimedia projects.
I also plan to work with the experienced wikimedia language communities in Nigeria (Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba) so as to help contribute in their various language on wikipedia.
I plan to involve the staff of Kogi State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and Centre for Atmospheric Research a center under National Space Research and Development Agency located in Kogi State to help provide relevent information about flood and drought in the state.
I choose this strategy because; The passionate youth climate activists from Kogi State will be excited to share and upload climate change and sustainability photos on wikimedia commons and eventually continue to contribute to Wikipedia when they have gained necessary wikipedia editing experience to narrow the geographic knowlegde gap about themes related to climate change and sustainability in the state.
The experienced language wikimedia user groups in Nigeria (Igbo,Hausa and Yoruba)will be happy to contribute in order to fill the language Knowledge gap about flood and drought incedents in Kogi State
The staff from the State Ministry (Kogi State Ministry of Enviroment and Natural Resources and federal government agency (Center for Atmospheric Research under the National Space Research and Development Agency) will be glad to share accurate and relevant information about the flood and drought incedents in the state in order to help improve people's behavioural change so as to reduce the effect of climate change in the state.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
I want to establish the following activities as part of my strategy to assist me reach my goals;
Organizing online and in-person training for the passionate climate change youth activist in various affected communities and local government area in Kogi State about how they can contribute to wikimedia project on the flood and drought incidents in the state.
Increasing the self-confidence of the passionate youth climate activists from Kogi State to collect and record information such as textual, pictorial and audio visual Kogi state climate change and sustainability content and document them on wikimedia commons
Creating online meetings with different language wikimedia groups in Nigeria and engaging them to make contributions to wikipedia in their different native tongues.
I choose this approach because I believe the following activities will work in helping me achieve my campaign goals and objectives.
- 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.
WikiForHumanRights
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Benedict Udeh, Username: udehB. He is one of the founding members of the Igbo wikimedia user group and also the founder Wiki Mentor Africa he is so passionate about earth activism, he is the coordinator for crowd sourcing biodiversity in the sub-sahara Africa using iNaturalist platform, he is going to be the coordinator of the project.
Henry Emmanuel Ojonugwa, Username Henry Ojonugwa, he is one of the members of Igbo wikimedia user group and also one of the founders of IG Wikidata FPI Fan club he is also a lover earth and a climate advocate,he is going to be one of the facilitator of the campaign.
- 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.
Geography, Language, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)
- 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.
My work is going to address the geographical content gap about Kogi State flooding on wikimedia projects. It's quite unfortunate to say that despite the state being the most affected state in terms of flooding and drought resulting from climate change in Nigeria, there are no articles on any wikimedia project addressing climate change in Kogi State Nigeria. Also it will help fill the language content gaps on the three main language wikipedia in Nigeria which are igbo, Hausa and Yoruba.
- 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, Human Rights, Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic
- 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?
Youths from Kogi State who are passionate about climate change will be my primary target participants because they are better at sharing their experiences with how the shift has affected them.
My participants will also include experienced wikimedians from different language groups in Nigeria.
I will set up a telegram group before the start of the campaign to remind my participants on a regular basis of the event's start date in order to get them ready and prepared.
I will engage my participants in meetings, trainings, writing and translating wikidata and wikipedia pages, and uploading pictures to wikimedia commons.
My Strategy to retain my participants is by creating telegram group and constantly engaging them on the group, i also intend to introduce them to other wikimedia climate change groups
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
To ensure that everyone is exercising their legal rights, we shall strictly adhere to the Wikimedia-friendly space policy and Universal Code of Conduct. Regardless of gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, physical appearance, or religion, we will offer a welcome environment to everyone harassment to any participant during the campaign will not accepted. Participants who disobey these guidelines risk being asked to leave the event.
- 11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
I have notified my community and request assistance from more experienced editors through our whatsapp channel to help me achieve this project succesfully.
- 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?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
No
- 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.
Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation edit
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
I wish to learn how the passionate Kogi State youth activists will contribute quality, accurate and reliable information and picture about Kogi State flood and drought
My learning question will be; Did this activity help in improving people’s knowledge about flooding and drought resulting from climate change in Kogi State? How does climate change impact people's quality of life in the state? How is the state's economy being impacted by climate change?
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Trainings | We will be conducting a total of three (3) days in-persons tranings for the youth activist on how they can contribute to wikimedia projects about topics related to climate change and sustainability in Kogi State.
We will be having three (3) meetings with the three different experience Language wikimedia groups in Nigeria so that they can contribute to wikipedia in their different native tongues. |
6 |
| Activities | Activities such as, preparing worklist, photo walk, trainings, meetings, Edith-a-Thon, Write-a-Thon, as regard climate change and sustainability in kogi state will be carried out. | 6 |
| Number of contributions | This will be the sum total of all the contributions made to wikipedia wikidata and pictures uploaded to wikimedia commons for the period of six months
Total numbers of pictures that will be uploaded to wikimedia commons by kogi state youth activist will be Three Thousand one Hundred (3100). . Total number of wikipedia articles that will be added to the three main language wikipedia in Nigeria will be one hundred and fifty (150). Total number of wikidata item created will be four hundred (400) |
3650 |
| Feedback | I will be collecting feedback from the youth activists on the skills they have learnt during the course of the training amd how well they are using the skills and if they are any limitations or constrain | 100 |
| Evaluation and Report | That is documententing the entire experience of the participants, from the training sessions, through the campaign, and their contributions to wikimedia projects. | 1 |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | This would be the total number of climate change youth activist from Kogi State and total number of different Nigeria language wikimedia user groups who will participate in the events
The total number of youth activist will be hundred (100) while the total number of experience Language wikimedians from the various wikimedia user groups will be ten (10) each making a total of thirty (30) |
130 |
| Number of editors | This will be a total number of climate change youth activist editors in the state and also different language groups in Nigeria. they wil be measured with outreach dashboard.
The total number of youth activists editors will be One Hundered (100) while the total number of experience Language wikimedians from the various wikimedia user groups will be ten (10) each, making a total of thirty (30) |
130 |
| Number of organizers | People who are going to be part of the project implementation
1 User: Udehb Benedict Udeh Coordinator&Facilitator
Henry Ojonugwa Emmanuel Facilitator
Agnes Ajuma Abah Organizer |
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- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- 18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
Outreach dashboard Xtool
Financial Proposal edit
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
7070000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
15343.82 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pS58aikUIQesV4OCh-2Hl7YMTAph5O6Ty9A_0j-lifI/edit#gid=0
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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