Grants:Project/Rapid/Kolobetsoo/Art & Feminism BW 2022

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. What will your initiative focus on, and why is it important to your community?

The project will focus on editing and improving articles about influential women in Botswana. The women will be picked from all platforms either sports,politics, pea-gentry, education, business and many more.

2. Are you doing one edit-a-thon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

We aim at organizing

1 training/presentation session (around March)

4 edit-a-thons sessions (between April and May 2022)

1 online Edit-a-thorn session ( June, 2022)

3. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.

Our main experienced editor will be User:shoodho

Last, our local activity will be organized within a more global framework, with several very experienced editors who can further bring help

4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Participants will in general have to bring their own laptops. We will provide a safe place to contribute, with suitable internet connection.

5. How will you let participants know about the initiative? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
Facebook page, mailing lists, messaging, WhatsApp, phone calls, Twitter, LinkedIn or physical/online gatherings.

Local communication channels

Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana/ https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia-Community-User-Group-Botswana-942442449243813

Global drive communication channels include

6. What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?

I expect to acquire more skills as lead of a gender gap initiative in the wikimedia network

I intend and expect to have extended my network

I intend to have more new recruits, training and an active team of editors in my local area, and i intend to follow-up on their editing progress

New content should have been created about women from my country

7. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on 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:

in-person event will be restricted to only 10 people

8. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

This is the first project of article editing in Botswana and I intend to meet every goal set above.

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:

Number of returning participants: 5
Number of new participants :10
Number of entries created or improved : 50

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

Organisers

Oteng Tiro Sandra Kolobetso / Project Lead
Candy Khohliwe / Organiser

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

Project budget table

No.	Item	Quantity	Rate (BWP)	Total (BWP)	’Summary'
Events	venue	4	P1250	P5000	The in-person event will take place 4 times with a minimum of 10 participants to allow them to create and edit more articles. the venue has internet connection and we will have 2 sessions per month.
Events	Snacks/Food	10	P100	P1000*4= P4000	For participants during sessions
	Certificates for participants	10	P25	P250	An incentive for participants
	Marketing Materials (Poster designs and printing)			P1500	For marketing the event and sessions
	Internet support for organisers	2 people	P399	P2793	subscription for pre- planning,contribution towards the event, communications, advertising and report writing.
	Internet support for participants	10		P1000	To enable participants to work from home
	Burner (Design and Printing)	1		P2000	For participants during sessions
T - Shirts	T-Shirts/ printing.	7	P170	P1190	The t-shirts will be given to all contributors and also the team organisers
Event management	Transport and Airtime	-	P1500	P1500	Transportation will be used for the team and also transport the food and getting T-shirt and stationery quotations, logistics, airtime for organisers during the event.
	Lap-Top for Organiser (Rent)	1	P750 per month	P750*4= P3000	This will be used to plan, advertise, communicate, prepare for presentations and run all the logistics of the event.
	Best contributors editors(gift vouchers) First prize winner P700 2nd price winner P400 3rd Price winner P400	3	P1500	P1500	This is to motivate participants to work hard and contribute more.
	Fly Box (Rent) for organisers	2	P200 per month each	P1600	This is the internet equipment to help organisers with internet connection to run the event.
	Social Media (Promotion)		P100	P500	to advertise in 5 platforms
	Contingency Amount			P500	For Unforeseen expenses
Total: BWP. 26333

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