Grants:Regions/South Asia/zh
该区域包括以下国家/地区： 阿富汗; 孟加拉國; 不丹; 印度; 馬爾代夫; 尼泊爾; 巴基斯坦; 斯里蘭卡.
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Regional calendar
Please reach out to your Program Officer if you are interested in applying before making any application or if you need flexibility on dates.
2024年2月15日 - 2024年3月14日
Applicant support and eligibility check
2024年3月14日
Submission deadline
3月15日 - 2024年4月22日
Review and translation
4月22日 - 2024年5月6日
Review feedback and applicant engagement
2024年5月23日
Decision announced
2024年6月6日 - 2024年6月30日
Agreement and first payment
2025年1月15日
Midpoint conversation
2025年8月15日
Final or first year report due
- Applicant proposal support starts: 2023年8月11日
- Submission deadline: 2023年9月8日
- Eligibility check: 8月11日 - 2023年9月8日
- Application translation: 9月11日 - 2023年9月15日
- Review process starts: 2023年9月18日
- Feedback received: 2023年10月6日
- Engaging with feedback: 10月6日 - 2023年10月27日
- Decisions announced: 2023年11月10日
- Agreement signed: 2023年12月1日
- First payment sent: 12月1日 - 2023年12月19日
- Midterm conversation due: 2024年7月15日
- Final report due: 2025年1月31日
- Yearly report due for multi-year funds: 2025年1月31日
Contact us
Rapid Fund
If you want to apply or if have any questions about the Rapid Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: sa_rapid
wikimedia.org
General Support Fund
If you have any questions about the General Support Fund, please reach out to the Regional Program Officer at: sa_fund wikimedia.org
区域委员会
- आर्या जोशी, 2021年8月 - Contributor to Marathi Wikimedia projects and works with many not for profit organizations in Maharashtra. A passionate researcher and enthusiastic learner always.
- Balajijagadesh, 2021年8月 - Open source enthusiast, active in community engagement activities in Tamil Wiki projects. Contributes to Wikisource and Wikidata.
- Mahir256, 2021年8月 - Active Wikidata and Bangla Wikisource contributor, part of the Indic TechCom initiative.
- Medhavigandhi, 2021年8月 - Lead Co-organizer at Art+Feminism, active in GLAM space, open GLAM work; leads The Heritage Lab project.
- Nawaraj Ghimire, 2021年8月 - Wikimedian contributing to the Wikipedia in Classroom project and outreach activities in Nepal.
- Tarunno, 2021年10月 - Wikimedian active in Bangla Wikimedia projects. Open source enthusiast.
Conversation hours
Conversation hours for Round 2 2022-23
Conversation hours are available for questions, comments, and any general support around our funding programs in the region. Please review the table below for information and links to these meetings:
| Date | Time | Language | Topic | Grantee Partner Type | Link to meeting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023年2月16日 | 3:00 – 4:00 UTC | 英语 | For new applicants – Wikimedia Community and Alliances Fund | SA and ESEAP | Video call link |
| 2023年2月16日 | 13:30 – 14:30 UTC | 英语 | For new applicants – Wikimedia Community and Alliances Fund | SA and ESEAP | Video call link |
| 2023年3月9日 | 3:00 – 4:00 UTC | 英语 | For new applicants – Wikimedia Community and Alliances Fund | SA and ESEAP | Video call link |
Conversation hours for Round 1 September 2022 - November 2022
Conversation hours are available for questions, comments, and any general support around our funding programs in the region. Please review the table below for information and links to these meetings:
| Date | Time | Language | Topic | Grantee Partner Type | Link to meeting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, 2022年8月30日 | 14:30PM - 15:30PM UTC | 英语 | General Support Fund applications | SA | Video call link |
| Saturday, 2022年9月10日 | 14:00 to 15:00 UTC | 英语 | General Support Fund applications | SA | Video call link |
| Thursday, 2022年10月13日 | 18:30 - 20:00 IST | 英语 | Proposal Clinic | SA | Video call link |
Conversation hours for Round 2 March 2022 - April 2022
Conversation hours are available for questions, comments, and any general support around our funding programs in the region. Please review the table below for information and links to these meetings:
| Date | Time | Language | Topic | Grantee Partner Type | Link to meeting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 2022年3月2日 | 14:30PM - 15:30PM UTC | 英语 | General Support Fund applications | SA | Video call link |
| Saturday, 2022年3月26日 | 13:00 to 14:00 UTC | 英语 | General Support Fund applications | SA | Video call link |
| Tuesday, 2022年4月19日 | 18:30 - 20:00 IST | 英语 | Proposal Clinic | SA | Video call link |
Conversation hours for Round 1 November 2021-December 2021
Conversation hours are available for questions, comments, and any general support around our funding programs in the region. Please review the table below for information and links to these meetings:
| Date | Time | Language | Topic | Grantee Partner Type | Link to meeting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 2021年10月27日 | 12:00PM - 13:00PM UTC | 英语 | General Support Fund applications | SA + ESEA +NWE | Google Meet Link [ Add this event to your calendar] |
| Thursday, 2021年10月28日 | 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | 英语 | General Support Fund applications | SA+NWE Focus | Google Meet Link [ Add this event to your calendar] |
| Saturday, 2021年10月30日 | 03:00 - 04:00 UTC | 英语 | General Support Fund applications | SA+ PACIFIC FOCUS | Google Meet Link [ Add this event to your calendar] |
| Saturday, 2021年11月13日 | 03:00 - 04:00 UTC | 英语 | Proposal Clinic | SA+ ESEAP focus | Google Meet Link [ Add this event to your calendar] |
| Saturday, 2021年11月13日 | 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | 英语 | Proposal Clinic | SA+NWE focus | Google Meet Link [ Add this event to your calendar] |
Questions from Office hour 27 July 2021
- User:Manavpreet Kaur
- For Organizations asking for Staff support, will their salaries/remuneration be considered as income?
Criteria of eligibility, are non-affiliate groups eligible? As discussed, their eligibility consideration is dependent on what the committee feels about them. How aware is the committee of all such groups’?
- Considering some mentorship programs are being discussed within affiliates, there might be a chapter supporting a user group to organize, plan and run some activities. So who would apply for this grant? The trainer or the trainee?
- In continuation of the last question, say both apply for grant for specific activities, but one regional committee approves but other refuses. How will the CRS team evaluate such cases?
- About Alliance funding, will it only be available to nonprofits or for profit organizations as well?
Regarding specific funds allocation for a region, if we are actually going to promote this funding for underrepresented communities, considering there are other major grantees in the region, cushion might not be sufficient.
- So what if there is an Allied organization asking for funds for the first time and come up with a great plan for engagement in India and ask for an equal or more amount than the existing grantees, would you consider funding the new organization?
- Are there any plans on training the regional committees? Or How will you ensure that everybody who's on the regional committee, irrespective of the region, is trained on similar standards?
- All communities stand at different levels regarding the sensitivity towards various aspects of engagement, grants, etc. Are there any plans for sensitization activities?
- Drafting Grants’ policies- Will the process be inclusive to the community for review?
- If an affiliate is being supported by other grantees in the region, will this association act as a barrier for the grant the affiliate wishes to apply directly for expansion of the group's activities?
- About Grant structure, would there be a Global criteria or would there be a regional criteria for evaluation & funding?
- When we're talking about increasing the funding opportunities for the under-represented communities, Do you have any kind of plans on capacity building? *Like designing a pilot for new Affiliates, identifying some, extending training on handling finances and later they apply for a grant. This will enable them to efficiently apply for & manage future grants. This will be an actual capacity building and increasing the funding to the underrepresented communities. Otherwise like, or is it just an opportunity without any capacity building support.
- User:Bodhisattwa
- How will Rapid Funds support long term but short budget projects as it is written that it is only meant for short term projects?
- Will individuals or smaller affiliates have to compete with big players w.r.t. General Support Fund,?
- How will you ensure legally to make the grant applicants submit the reports and financial receipts?
- How will you prevent people from disappearing with the money or submit vague/false reports?
- How will the transparency of the grant projects be ensured?
- What is the transaction limit by which an individual will not face FCRA wrath from the Government and how will it be ensured to remove the FCRA barrier for smaller affiliates?
- If an individual/affiliate wants to hire a paid person to execute some project, how will the money be transferred to that person?
- What will be the exact legal way to save tax when money comes to someone’s account for a project?