Grants:Project/Rapid/Designing Mentorship Program

statusNot funded
WM/Designing Mentorship Program
This project seeks to conduct research to build a holistic system which provides clear guidance and direction to aid volunteers and stakeholders who join the community to navigate their way through the movement. It also seeks to develop an online curriculum with the aim of boosting the capacity of both existing and new community members to acquire certain specific skills to enable them progress and enhance their work within the movement
targetplease add a target wiki
start year2021
end year2022
budget (local currency)11,900 cedis
budget (USD)$2000
grant typeplease specify whether this grant is for an individual, group, or organization
organization (if applicable)• Open Foundation West Africa
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Applications are not required to be in English. Please complete the application in your preferred language.

Project Goal edit

The WIkimedia Movement is such that when volunteers/stakeholders join they often get lost, lack proper guidance and mentorship to be able to navigate their way through the movement. Part of this problem is because such a thing does not exist. More often than not, volunteers or stakeholders will have to navigate their way through the movement on their own without proper coaching or mentorship. In their discovery journey, they realize they lack certain skills to be able to take up certain leadership roles or perform some other roles. Additionally, as much as regional hubs will want to expand and grow their network in newer communities, lack of these support systems often forces most of these volunteers to remain as editors and are not able to organize campaigns or take on other leadership roles due to lack of skills, coaching or clear guidance.


Project Plan edit

Activities edit

  1. What movement strategy initiative will your implementation work focus on? Please select one of the initiatives described here.
    Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
  2. What community or communities will be involved in this movement strategy implementation work?
    Open Foundation West Africa
  3. Do you have any specific implementation ideas to support this initiative? Are you aware of any specific ideas in your community? If so, please briefly describe 1-2 of these ideas here.
  4. Please describe your specific activities below to develop a draft implementation plan. What will you do to support your goals to implement this initiative from movement strategy? If possible, please provide a general timeline for these activities. When will they begin and how long will your activities take?
    This project seeks to conduct research to build a holistic system which provides clear guidance and direction to aid volunteers and stakeholders who join the community to navigate their way through the movement. It also seeks to develop an online curriculum with the aim of boosting the capacity of both existing and new community members to acquire certain specific skills to enable them progress and enhance their work within the movement. These courses will be made accessible on platforms such as Moodle, Wired Tutor etc. Where members can take some of these courses to improve their skills where needed
  5. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal?
    You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.
  6. How will you keep your community updated about progress and outcomes for these activities? Who will be responsible for communicating these updates? Please add the names or usernames of these individuals below.
    For example: User:Ruby D-Brown User:kaffzz'

This project is targeting Wikimedians in Africa. The reason for this is because the Africa community is one of the least explored communities within the movement with very huge potentials. If Africans are able to receive these kinds of mentorship and support, we believe that many more editors in Africa can grow beyond just being editors to recruiting and training new editors or perhaps organizing campaigns within their region. This will go a long way to help improve the narrative and bridge the content gap about Africa on the web through Wikipedia. Community members will learn about this project through our social media handles, African Wikimedia mailing list, etc We will be involving our community through:

1. A media drive, where we will storm media platforms and create awareness of the project

2. Updating the meta page purposely for the project

3. Creating a web page on our official website for the campaign that will entail all the details anyone will want to know about the project.

4. Organizing virtual workshops/office hours where we will inform people about the project

5. Sharing of information about the project on an all our major social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Whatsapp)

6. Employing partner countries to communicate with their networks and on their social media platforms.

  1. If you are organizing community discussions, what is your facilitation plan to support productive discussions around movement strategy implementation? Please also provide a link to a Friendly Space Policy that will be implemented to support these discussions. If you are not doing these activities, please write N/A.
    N/A
  2. If you are requesting funding for online tools or services to support participation, please describe these services and how they will be used. If not, please write N/A.
    1.Data allowance/Stipend for researchers- To research all lists of festivals in select countries and gather data for easy content creation.

2.Data allowance for trainers- Data to support online training activities and virtual office hours during the event.

  1. If you are translating any materials, in what languages will you be supporting translation? Who will be responsible for doing the translations? If not, please write N/A.
  2. What other roles are important for these activities? Please describe these roles and provide the usernames or names of who will perform these roles.
    Researcher: To research all lists of festivals in select countries and gather data for easy content creation. User:kwabran

Training Associates- Training associates will host online training activities and virtual office hours during the event. User: User:Jwale2 User:kaffzz User:Ruby D-Brown

  1. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined in the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:
  2. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Outcomes edit

After your activities are complete, we would like to understand the draft implementation plan for your community. You will be required to prepare a document detailing this plan around a movement strategy initiative. This report can be prepared through Meta-wiki using the Share your results button on this page. The report can be prepared in your language, and is not required to be written in English.

In this report, you will be asked to:

  • Provide a link to the draft implementation plan document or Wikimedia page
  • Describe what activities supported the development of the plan
  • Describe how and where you have communicated your plan to relevant communities.
  • Report on how your funding was spent

Your draft implementation plan document should address the following questions clearly:

  • What movement strategy initiative or goal are you addressing?
  • What activities will you be doing to address that initiative?
  • What do you expect will happen as a result of your activities? How do those outcomes address the movement strategy initiative?
  • How will you measure or evaluate your activities? What tools or methods will you use to evaluate your activities?

To create a draft implementation plan, we recommend the use of a logic model, which will help you and your team think about goals, activities, outcomes, and other factors in an organized way. Please refer the following resources to develop a logic model:

Please confirm below that you will be able to prepare a draft implementation plan document by the end of your grant:

  • ...

Yes, we can confirm that we will be able to prepare a draft implementation plan document by the end of your grant

Optionally, you are welcome to include other information you'd like to share around participation and representation in your activities. Please include any additional outcomes you would like to report on below:

Budget edit

How you will use the funds you are requesting? List bullet points for each expense. Don’t forget to include a total amount, and update this amount in the Probox at the top of your page too!

  • ‘’’Research :’’’ To research all lists of festivals in select countries and gather data for easy content creation - $300
  • ‘’’Documentation (document preparation time, video production,time spent documenting of discussion, post-meeting work)’’’:$900
  • ’’’Translation’’’ (content translation into the languages of the select countries):$250
  • ’’’Coordination’’’ communication, souvenirs, internet stipend for project coordinator, etc.:$350
  • ’’’Online tools or services’’’ (subscription services for online meeting platforms, social media promotion):$200


TOTAL: $2000

Completing your application edit

Once you have completed the application, please do the following:

  • Change the application status from status=draft to status=proposed in the {{Probox}} template.
  • Contact strategy2030 wikimedia.org and rapidgrants wikimedia.org to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.

Endorsements edit

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  • I endorse this project. Kwabran (talk) 22:32, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
  • I fully endorse this project. Xibitgh (talk) 10:59, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

  Strong support I endorse this project. Jwale2 (talk) 21:35, 29 July 2021 (UTC)