Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/African & Proud General Support./Midpoint Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 2023-07-15T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Midterm
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General information
[edit]This form is for organizations receiving Wikimedia Community Funds (General Support) or Wikimedia Alliances Funds to report on their mid-term learning and results. See the Wikimedia Community Fund application if you want to review the initial proposal.
- Name of Organization: African & Proud
- Title of Proposal: African & Proud General Support.
- Amount awarded: 22200 USD, 8264462 NGN
- Amount spent:
Part 1 Understanding your work
[edit]1. Briefly describe how your strategies and activities proposed were implemented and if any changes to what was proposed are worth highlighting?
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you feel are being effective in achieving your goals?
3. What challenges or obstacles have you encountered so far?
4. Please describe how different communities are participating and being informed about your work.
5. Please share reflections on how your efforts are helping to engage participants and/or build content, particularly for underrepresented groups.
- N/A
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What have you learned so far about these areas during this period?
7. What are the next steps and opportunities you’ll be focusing on for the second half of your work?
Part 2: Metrics
[edit]8a. Open and additional metrics data.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | Afroyanga - 10 participants
AfroCuisine - at least 70 participants (30 participants during the physical edit-a-thon, and at least 40 participants would join the event remotely) Other (social media reach) - at least 50 participants |
130 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | This will include editors who will participate in contest and writing | 130 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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| Additional Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | At least 25% of participants would be retained after activities. They will be inducted into the mentorship program. | 33 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | Strategic partnership with Wiki-in-Africa, AFROCROWD, Wikimedia Nigeria. | 3 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | Strategic monitoring, evaluation and learning surveys carried out at the start of each project, at the end of the project and 3-months after the end of each project to monitor participant's feedback on things that can be done better, added or removed which will lead to the attracting and retaining of contributors. | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | Participants for all events would be spread across all diverse groups in Nigeria (Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba) | 3 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | Social media advertisements and publications about all of our projects (At least 500 impressions from our online advertisement // At least 2.35% conversion rate) | 12 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | At least 2 distinct activities will be developed | 2 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | African & Proud Administrative assistant (Yet to be filled Role); He/She is responsible for supporting the co-founders and staff, assisting with daily needs, and managing the organization’s general administrative activities. Organizationally he/she will act as the point of contact for internal and external persons, answering and directing phone calls. | 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
8b. Additional core metrics data.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Afroyanga - 10 participants
AfroCuisine - at least 70 participants (30 participants during the physical edit-a-thon, and at least 40 participants would join the event remotely) Other (social media reach) - at least 50 participants |
130 | |||
| Number of editors | This will include editors who will participate in contest and writing | 200 | |||
| Number of organizers | N/A |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | (English Wikipedia) Number of articles created/improved - 350 // (Igbo Wikipedia) Number of articles created/translated/improved - 300 // (Yoruba Wikipedia) Number of articles created/translated/improved - 350 | 1000 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikibooks | Specifically on the cookbooks of Wikibooks | 500 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | Adding photos on cuisines on Wikimedia Commons | 500 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikipedia | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
9. Are you having any difficulties collecting data to measure your results?
- N/A
10. Are you collaborating and sharing learning with Wikimedia affiliates or community members?
10a. Please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how?
11. Documentation of your work process, story, and impact.
- Below there is a section to upload files, videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g. communications materials, blog posts, compelling quotes, social media posts, etc.). This can be anything that would be useful to understand and show your learning and results to date (e.g., training material, dashboards, presentations, communications material, training material, etc).
- Below is an additional field to type in link URLs.
Part 3: Financial reporting and compliance
[edit]12. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
13. Local currency type
14. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Provide links to your financial reporting documents.
15. Based on your implementation and learning to date, do you have any plans to make changes to the budget spending?
15a. Please provide an explanation on how you hope to adjust this.
- N/A
16. We’d love to hear any thoughts you have on how the experience of being a grantee has been so far.