Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki for Human Right the Right to Healthy Environment Sudan Wikimedia User Group Community 2023 (ID: 22069513)

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Applicant Details edit

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

ola.mahadi

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Maram ali ahmed Hassan Hassoon Mutasim Elmahadi

Organization

Wikimedia Sudan User Group

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.

we are part of the Wiki World Heritage User Group

Grant Proposal edit

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

Wiki for Human Right the Right to Healthy Environment Sudan Wikimedia User Group Community 2023

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/wikimedaSudan/ https://twitter.com/SudanWikimedia https://www.instagram.com/wikimediasudan/

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

This project's main objective is to contribute towards increasing the number of active users in Sudan by encouraging new users to participate in highlighting issues related to the right to a healthy environment as a Human Right. The project will work on building capacity of new users and enhance their knowledge of Human Right and Right to healthy environment this will be done in partnership with Local NGOs and initiatives working on environmental rights. University Students, Journalist and members of the Sudanese Woman Cyclist We believe that Sudan is a moge the most affected countries of global warming and that the current political and economical situation is pushing the environmental issues and policies to be less priorities. The weak coverage of the media on issues related to pollution and the environmental hazard is the main concern of this project. We believe that having A Sudanese member UN's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change is an opportunity to highlight the role of youth in leading the future informed decisions related to climate change

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

The project will use the main strategy of building capacity of new users who will be selected from the target group who have interest and at least basic knowledge on human rights.

The project will develop partnership with key main actors in issues related to climate change such as local NGos and initiatives, journalists and university students.

The main strategy of the project will be a participatory approach where the main involved partners will help identify the main topics to be covered by the capacity building activities and the main indicator of reaching our goals.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

Partnership development activities which include impersonal and online meetings and orientation sessions, with NGOs, Universities staff, Sudan Community user group active users, Photographers and Journalist.

Developing the campaign matrix and media materials,

Developing campaign list of topics and articles to be enhanced or created through meetings and online editing sessions. Capacity building activities such as: Training of new comers (New users training , Photographers ) ( two day training workshop in person) Edit thon sessions ( in person, online)

Desing and printing of messages on environmental rights as human right.

Photo walk with the Sudanese female cyclist riders along the Nile.

Upload session for the photo walk

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?

The project core team will be Maram Ali (user:Maram ali ahmed) as project Coordinator managing the financial and partnership building requirements (meetings and communication), facilitation meetings and conducting training. Ola Mahadi(user:ola.mahadi) as project activities officer will be mainly coordinating the events details and contacting participants collecting data and feedback. Hassan Osman (user:Hassan Hassoon)Documentation and media will be maily documenting the projects activity help in project materials design and social media platform follow up. Fatima Mohamed (user:Fatima exceptional) Capacity building officer fatima will be mainly responsible from developing materials and data for the campaign and following up with the new users on technical issues.

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.

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.

Topics of human rights tend to be looked at as elite issues and t not for public. highlighting this to participants will enable them to take informed decisions. Developing content within context of Sudan. The content developed will highlight the main actors in this issues in Sudan Context. As the right to a healthy environment is a core part of the SDGs developing related content to build capacity on policies affecting those rights. Highlighting main issues in Sudan context.

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?

Not applicable

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?

University students Photographers Wikimedia Counity User Group Sudan members Local NGOs and initiatives Participants will be selected in cooperation with project partners, the project will have a follow up dashboard to keep track of the developed content

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

the community is implementing the activities inline with the guideline of Friendly space policies. لThe community is actively sharing information on our community channels and through in person meetings.

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.

We discussed the proposal with the community member in whatsapp group and telegram @TKBo4VhPQl_oTFSl

we attended a meeting with the regional coordinator and had a second  meeting with her as a community to discuses details related to the proposal.

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.

Yes

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.

the project will be implemented in partnership with local NGOs and initiatives working on environmental rights we beleive that building such partnership will help both of us building our communities capacity the NOGs members have a good potentials to become active users for Wikimedia projects and they can benefits from accessing open knowledge and share content they develop. the local NOGs will provide materials and content to improve the capacity of project activity participant around issues and topics of Human Right and right to a Healthy Environment. we already have members of Journalist which make accessing the target group easier and we think by reaching out to the journalist community we facilitate having source of information to be shared freely on Wikipedia. We think it is a good start to introduce our community and the work we do and the opportunity that Wikimedia offer to University students focusing on youth as a leader of change.

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.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, 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?

By the end of the training workshop we expect that the participants will be able to highlight the content gaps in the thematic topics around pollution and recycling , their awareness on the right to a healthy environment issues as a core right of human rights is developed and they can better share this knowledge on social media. Articles on effects of Climate change in Sudan will be supported by content of media from wiki commons.

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 Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Human Right Messages	Messages and topics to be covered by the campaign will be designed detailed activities plan and time table will be developed.	20
Community reach activity	as part of the campaign we will have a Photo Walk (10 persons) in cooperation with Sudanese Female Cyclist followed by session for Pictures uploaded messages on Human Right and Right to a Healthy environment will be distributed , documentations for the river bank and reflection of Environmental pollutions aspect will be taken.	50
Content Development	Edit thorn with photographers to edit photos from wiki Loves Earth 10 photographers	100
Capacity building New Users Trainings	New users training (10) New photographers training(10) the project will have two training cabacity building workshops the first two days training will target the identified participants from NGOs, Universities and Journalist to have Two-day the second training will be for photographers within the training the group will design the photo walk	20
Partnership Development meetings	Partnership building and strengthen with NGOs and Universities Capacity building of new comers on environmental rights and Wikimedia projects. this meetings will facilitate reaching Agreement on the project partnership guideline on roles and responsibilities of the main actors in the project. the meetings will aslo be held to work on Developing a list of articles and topics developed by the capacity building activities. coordination meetings will be held with the community members and the project team. another meeting will be happening by the end of the project including the project team key praters and beneficiaries to reflect on the process and evaluate the results share lessons learned and develop way forward.	6

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	New User Training 15 participants in new users two days training and 8 participants of photograpers photo walk from our community in Sudan	15
Number of editors	There will be 15 + 8 photographers editors during the event	23
Number of organizers	4 organizers	4

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
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

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

23

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.

Dashboard Google forms List of articles on Wikipedia project page

Financial Proposal edit

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

2827500 SDG

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

4875 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

Wiki4HRSudan2023_budget.xlsx

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qNPXTjBSJRMt5AqDYqjND4XFdEYvWU4w/edit#gid=1857963019

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

Yes

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