Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Tanzania University Students Wikimedians 2024/2025

This looks like a solid proposal, aligned with the strategy of the group, clear timeline, and coherent budget. Anthere (talk) 21:48, 27 March 2024 (UTC) Reply

Dear Tanzania University Students Wikimedians:

Thank you very much for your proposal, describing your activities and projects in support of the Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia movement. The Regional Funds Committee has initially reviewed the proposal, and wishes to offer some initial feedback and questions for your review.

The committee appreciates that this program focuses on youth, with clearly articulated goals and objectives and a desire for growth.

It would be supportive of the Committee’s understanding of your plans if you’d be so kind as to elaborate on our following specific few questions:

• Community engagement and feedback. Could you clarify further about how you included your community of volunteers in the planning of your proposal? And how do you plan on incorporating the community in your work throughout the year?
• Partnerships. May you please share further on how the partnerships with other groups will be utilized to strengthen your activities and impact?
• Metrics. The committee would like to learn more about the current metrics of your implemented projects in 2023, in terms of number of participants, editors and organizers in your activities, as well as contributions on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons?
• Wiki Travel Diary 2024. The committee is eager to know more on how you plan on implementing this project, in terms of: activities, targeted participants and number of organizers? Where will the event be located? Could you share the same about Bantu Trails in Tanzania?
• Budget-related questions. After reviewing the budget, the committee had a couple of questions with regards to your budget for your elaboration:
  • Training of Trainers and mentors. It appears that there is an incomplete budget item. See line item 4.6 Accommodation
  • Contest. It appears that there is a duplication for Merchandise and Gifts (2.4 and 2.8). May you share the difference between both?
• Cooperation with Universities and Schools. The committee recommends that you consider cooperating with universities and schools to implement your activities in their spaces.
• Multi-year grant considerations. The committee recommends that since you are applying for a multi-year grant, you may consider categorizing your programs under two main buckets depending on urgency: immediate and long-term initiatives. This may help push the long-term initiatives further to focus on programs addressing immediate needs.
• Target participants. According to the committee’s understanding of the annual and strategic plans, there is a target for non-student groups. Although the user group’s main target participants are students, may you share your rationale for this?
• Outcomes. Where can the committee or the community follow the outcomes and contributions of your user group’s activities’ participants? Do you use an Outreach Dashboard to track project outcomes?
• Partnerships. May you share more on the work with internal and external partners? How will you collaborate with them to achieve your activities’ outcomes?
• Collaborating with the local Wikimedia user group. How have you been collaborating with the local Wikimedia user group?

Regarding the schedule for our review process, please complete your review and responses to committee feedback by the 1st of May 2024. After this time, the Regional Committee will begin a final review of the proposal to make a formal decision.

Thanks again for your work on the proposal and for supporting our review.

On behalf of the Regional Committee, User: FElgueretly-WMF (talk) 10:56, 15 April 2024 (UTC) Reply