Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2024 in Nepal (ID: 22445016)
Follow-up questions from SA Regional Funds Committee and Programme Officer edit
Hello @Nabin K. Sapkota,
Thank you for putting in a new grant application for Wiki Loves Earth 2024 and for submitting the WLE 2023 report. Congratulations on the successful event last year. I am also linking here your past experience in accessing grants and implementing projects - Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2023 in Nepal (ID: 22141258)#Grant History for Nepal Wikimedians Community (Non- exhaustive)
For this year's event, we have a few questions and are hoping to hear your thoughts:
1) In terms of geographical focus, why and how did you decide on Chitwan and Parsa. Also, in your thought process, how does biodiversity, geographical importance, changes of the seasons (Like spring, autumn) get reflected in your photos and plans?
2) Having implemented this project several times and being the lead coordinators, have you given some thought to volunteer retention and building a group of core volunteers so they are able to take on coordinating role as well? Are there also considerations to work with other partners (e.g. youth groups which could be a source of building a pipeline of new volunteers)? In 2023, you were exploring conversations with Nepal Tourism Board, Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN) and Birds Conservation Nepal to assist our photo walks and photo ride. How did these go? Are there similar plans for this year?
3) As you have had significant experience implementing projects and accessing grants, would you be open to listing these on your Usergroup Meta page (e.g. index box or something similar)? If you would like references of how other affiliates are doing this, here are some examples - * Annual Reports from other Affiliates if you are interested to learning about other formats - West Bengal Wikimedians/Reports/Annual Activities/2022; Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand/Annual Report 2022; Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group
Would you be able to do this alongside the grant implementation and complete it at the same time as when you submit your grant report?
Thank you.
Regards,
Jacqueline on behalf of the SA Regional Funds Committee JChen (WMF) (talk) 03:16, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
Reply edit
Hi Jacqueline JChen (WMF)
Regarding the aforementioned queries please find the attached answers for the respective questions below:
1) In terms of geographical focus, why and how did you decide on Chitwan and Parsa. Also, in your thought process, how does biodiversity, geographical importance, changes of the seasons (Like spring, autumn) get reflected in your photos and plans?
- Regarding the geographical focus on Chitwan and Parsa, these are one of the less exposed areas during our journey. But regarding its value both the areas have a wide variety of biodiversity and natural phenomenon including Chitwan National Park and Parsa National Park within. Covering a wide variety of animal and bird habitats including local and migrated fauna from different parts of the world, specially Indian sub-continent along with birds migrated every year from Siberia, Chitwan and Parsa both share a border with India and along with its national park. So, to overcome the saturation both areas contribute to exploring more of what we were always looking to acheive throughout our event.
2) Having implemented this project several times and being the lead coordinators, have you given some thought to volunteer retention and building a group of core volunteers so they are able to take on coordinating role as well? Are there also considerations to work with other partners (e.g. youth groups which could be a source of building a pipeline of new volunteers)? In 2023, you were exploring conversations with Nepal Tourism Board, Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN) and Birds Conservation Nepal to assist our photo walks and photo ride. How did these go? Are there similar plans for this year?
- Regarding volunteer retention and building a group of core volunteers on coordinating roles we’ve experimented and practiced these a way back with the theme of “Right man for the right job” including professional photographers and newbie wikipedians in our organizing team alongside WLE, WLM and numerous local events. It did work and we’ve achieved our local and international goals. But the bitter truth is now with time we’re saturating to overcome these patterns and building a new pattern from core in these past 2 years and will continue this year too. And I believe it’s working and we’re achieving more locally and internationally than we did in the past. For sure, once we build the base we’re eagerly looking forward to handing it over to the next generation soon.
- Regarding collaboration with different associates we practiced last year in WLE along with other events we organized via Wikimedians of Nepal. Nepal Tourism Board helped us to generate listings of natural places and Birds Conservation Nepal (BCN) is actively associating during photowalks and offline events. Regarding this year's event we are surely going to continue the venture along with a couple more local nature clubs in Chitwan.
3) As you have had significant experience implementing projects and accessing grants, would you be open to listing these on your Usergroup Meta page (e.g. index box or something similar)? If you would like references of how other affiliates are doing this, here are some examples - * Annual Reports from other Affiliates if you are interested to learning about other formats - West Bengal Wikimedians/Reports/Annual Activities/2022; Wikimedia User Group of Aotearoa New Zealand/Annual Report 2022; Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group Would you be able to do this alongside the grant implementation and complete it at the same time as when you submit your grant report?
- Well, we did create summary reports of the event within the annual report of Wikimedians of Nepal linked with user groups meta page . Yes, we are surely going to add these and events from the past to the usergroup’s meta page under event category alongside transparently.
Your grant application has been approved edit
Hello @Nabin K. Sapkota
Congratulations! Your grant application has been approved in the amount of NPR 595,000 from 1 May 2024 to 15 June 2024.
Let’s continue having regular conversations over the course of your grant implementation.
Please let me know if you require support in any way or would like to share your experiences with a wider community through the Let's Connect Programme or on South Asia Open Community Calls.
Additional resources which may be useful
- The reporting requirements and templates for the grant can be found here. All reports are to be completed and submitted via Fluxx.
- Timelines for reporting can be found in your grant agreement or on Fluxx.
- Instructions for post award https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Processing/Grantee_Portal/Post_award/Individuals
- Documenting project expenses: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Documenting_project_expenses
- Reference for documentation on annual activities on affiliate meta pages as you prepare your rapid fund report and annual plan report
- Partnership resources which may be useful for your upcoming grant term.
- Partnership building - https://learn.wiki/
- Retaining new editors - Grants:Knowledge Sharing/Connect/Resources#Interpersonal skills, community health, and governance
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Regards, Jacqueline on behalf of the South Asia Regional Funds Committee JChen (WMF) (talk) 08:29, 11 March 2024 (UTC)