Grants:Project/Rapid/WikiForHumanRights HighLevel Workshop in Nairobi/Report

Report accepted

This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2022-23 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/WikiForHumanRights HighLevel Workshop in Nairobi.
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Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went? Yes we met our project goals, which was to convene a high-level workshop to engage experts in the area of Human rights , climate change and Biodiversity to Key among other thing identify information gaps on Kenya’s environmental issues, climate justice, human rights and the right to a healthy environment.

Outcome

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Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Bring together experts in the areas of climate Justice and Biodiversity, to identify gaps in information on Kenya’s environmental issues, regulation and human rights topics. Amplify the diversity of Wikipedia Campaigns	We managed to mobilize 7 organisations who sent represantives to attend the workshop. This helped in bringing the much needed diversity and different perspectives in the conversations.	It wouldnt be a high-level workshop without participants hence the major sucess of our project lay in mobilizing key people to grace the vent, which we did sucessfully.
Engage and create a network of environmentalists, human rights advocates and journalists who are passionate about open knowledge. Recruit and build the capacity of new participants/audiences within the above thematic areas to contribute knowdge on Wikipedia	We were keen on raising awareness about Wikipedia and how participants can contribute information in their niche areas. We were able not to just connect with our event partcipants but manage to create a network and contact list. Some of these organisations such as the Organisation of Youth Alliance (OAY)have consequently invited us to speak in their events as well and we are positive of forging greater partnerships in future projects.	It's one thing to make a connection and abuild another to build relationships, our goal is to keep the connection with these organisations and constantly update them on our projects and also corrdinate regualr wikipedia trainnings to keep them engaged.

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? Good planning always goes along way in project management. I had a team of three steering team recruited based on their skills and allocated roles right at the onset. This enured that everyone knew what was expected of them and the support they needed to give to the team.

• Professionalism is also key in corrdinating events. This way everyone knows when it's time for business and time to socialize and ensures that things get done. It also sends communication to your guests during events and goes along way in determing if they would want to associate with you in future events.
• What did not work so well? Getting people to edit Wikipedia post the workshop. Not all participants are interested in editing but atleast they still helped us to identify some content gaps. We also noticed that getting new editors to grow into eediting requires time and regular trainnings.
• What would you do differently next time?

In future events we need to have a post workshop plan and editing trainning schedule to provide constitency. Although our event was not a writing contest, it would still be great to have new editors in these thematic areas help us in bridging the identified contnet gaps.

We are also keen on aplying for APG for 2023 projects so that we can plan well and avoid burnout owing to the short span of time in between projects. The APG wll also help us coordinate our events better as learn to prioritize more events.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on. All funds were spent in the project as budgetted for to cater for all expenses as listed in our budget. We received additional funds to cater for venue as we relaised way later that we didnt have a venue from one of the partners as we had hoped to.

1. Online Tools & Streaming Services ksh 130,000
2. Data for Virtual Event for participants for 20 pax Ksh20,000
3. Meals and venue 120,000
4. Stationery 10,000
5. Social Media Campaign promo that included Twitter & Facebook promos and e-poster design ksh20,000
6. 8 Gift Hampers for Speakers ksh 40,000
7. Banner design and printing ksh10,000
8. Documentation ksh15,000
9. Photographey + Camera hire ksh 10,000
10. Cordination & Facilitation stipend for 3 pax (total of 65Hrs) ksh 60,000
11. Sanitizer and masks ksh 3,000
12. Transport for particapants ksh21,000
13. Childrencare support for 4pax for 2 days ksh 8000
14. Miscellaneous ksh28,700

Total ksh 505,700

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

You can read more about our workshop discussions in the notes [[1]]