Grants:Project/Rapid/Faith Mwanyolo/Wiki Loves Africa 2021 Kenya/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2020-21 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

• To read the approved grant submission describing the plan for this project, please visit Grants:Project/Rapid/Faith Mwanyolo/Wiki Loves Africa 2021 Kenya.
• You may still comment on this report on its discussion page, or visit the discussion page to read the discussion about this report.
• You are welcome to Email rapidgrants at wikimedia dot org at any time if you have questions or concerns about this report.

Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? We managed to recruit new Wikipedia users and also engage and continue to grow with existing editors, and this was one of our primary goals for the competition. We were also able to harness a good community of participants from Lamu county; and someone to represent the Kenyan Wikimedia community from there.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets. Please be sure to review and provide metrics required for Rapid Grants.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
900 Images used on Wikimedia Commons	330 images	there is still a lot of restriction of movement in Kenya due to the pandemic hence participants are more restricted in terms of accessibility of potential venues for photos to be taken.
25 participants	18 participants that reached out via various channels	due to the ongoing pandemic, a lot of people are still reluctant to take part in such activities.

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

• What worked well? We received a large amount of images , more than what we expected and this was quite pleasing to the team.
• What did not work so well? Since we were running two competitions at once, WLF and WLA, we had to come up with a strategy in order to avoid confusion and hence ended up making certain payments and reimbursements a bit late.
• What would you do differently next time?

We will make payments as soon as a cost is incurred, especially when more than one event is running concurrently.

We will also strive to get more out of county representatives who can help coordinate activities in their respective counties.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

• Data = 18,000 KES
• Camera rentals = 15,000 KES
• Stickers and notebooks = 10,170 KES
• Lamu Participants (Transport, Food, Cameras and Parcel) = 27,000 KES
• Permits = 35,000 KES
• Transport and food/ refreshments = 40,529 KES
• Prizes = 22,432.85 KES
• Fuel for Coordinators = 1,500 KES

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

• 1,499KES

Remaining funds have been used or will be used for other approved mission-aligned activities. This use has been requested in writing and approved by WMF.

The remaining funds will be utilized during the next project that Kenya undertakes.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

It was quite a challenging theme and we are more than pleased with the number of submissions received.

• Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2021 in Kenya