Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia Tanzania/East Africa Regional and Thematic Hub (EARTH) Research grant/Report

Movement Strategy Implementation Grant Report
Accepted

Outcomes

EARTHub Implementation Draft Plan

Please respond to the following questions below:

Where have you published your draft plan? Share the link to it here:

• On Wikimedia Commons: Link

What Movement Strategy initiative is this draft plan supporting?

• Regional and Thematic Hubs (Initiative 26)

What activities have you completed to produce this draft plan?

• Preliminary theory of change analysis, evaluation, and community updates about the upcoming project activities through an initial diff blog post.
• Research on the community needs and feasibility of an East African Regional Hub, together with community facilitators from each of the target communities to enhance efficiency in the community outreach, sensitization, and research. Part of their role was to provide the core team with an overview of their community landscape and provide advisory on the local community landscape to ensure that we had equal representation and participation of the East African and other target communities.
• Planning, Community engagement, and consultation - A key component of EARTH’s  planning phase involved community sensitization around the Movement strategy recommendations and initiatives as part of capacity building efforts. This was informed by the recognition that the majority of folks in the emerging communities in East Africa are newcomers who had not been aware of the Movement Strategy 2030 and indeed findings from the research affirmed 72% of the respondents had not heard about or engaged in movement strategy conversations. This was followed by community engagement, as well as engagement of other hubs like ESEAP, CEE, the advisory team, and other similar initiatives to gather input on the research results, planning, and next steps. Results from this phase were shared with the movement with a second diff blog post. A review of the hubs pilot guidelines template together with the communities and also, the Core Team’s review of the Movement Charter hubs guidelines on hubs.

In which community channels have you announced your draft plan? We have communicated the draft plan from the initial stages of Preliminary, research, Planning, and reporting phases on the following channels;

• Email communication for outreach to the members
• The telegram group for team members in the target communities.
• Direct messaging to affiliate leads in the region through Whatsapp and telegram
• Wiki Indaba 2022 session in Kigali, Rwanda.
• Wiki Indaba side event brainstorm with WISCOM and MSG team
• Diff blog posts as mentioned above
• At the WMF annual plan community conversation
• Wikimedia Hubs telegram group
• We plan to have a session about the draft plan at Wikimania 2023 in Singapore.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on. Below is the table for the funding expenditure;

Item	Original budget	Actual budget	Additional Comment
Data Services	220	220	Distributed to all team members
Documentation	1,400	1400	Distributed to all team members
Facilitation	4500	1500	Provided to the project facilitators
Project Management Costs	13,500	13,500	For Project Management
Fieldwork (Local Hub Tours)	1600	1600	Four communities
Translation costs	1000	1000	French and Swahili
Administrative Costs	1500	1500	Transaction fees, bank charges, rates, accounting, stationery.
Childcare	2000	2000	Distributed to all team members
External Research Consultant	3600	3600	For the contracted consultant
Miscellaneous	2082	600	Miscellaneous funds were used for project facilitators due to a budget shortage
		1482	Miscellaneous funds were used on project management costs during the project extension period.
TOTAL	*28,402	28,402
RE-CALCULATED GRANT TOTAL	31402		* The total budget request of 28,402 on meta was short by 3,000 USD due to an unforeseen error.

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

No.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

• The EARTH Core Team on behalf of all communities would like to express it's appreciation to the MSG Team, Wikimedia Foundation, and all other stakeholders, including those reading this report for your support and engagement with these activities to forward the Wikimedia mission!
• We encourage and invite all Wikimedians, especially hubbers within the Movement to continue engaging with us, and we welcome any feedback towards our implementation phase for this hub.
• This is a draft implementation plan, and we are willing to make any improvements, as we move forward.