The rhino, an endangered species in Kenya and the world for the value of its horn and the elephant's ivory tusk. In the savanna, and along the forests, game reserves and national parks the Morans and communities benefits largely from the environment,though under represented online. This project seek to target 2000 of these people directly or indirectly to use mobile phones for photos, text, facebook, twitter,and work with local administration, forest and wildlife services and the global community to raise voices, save rhinos, elephants from extinction and conserve our environment.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
NAIROBI
Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.
Hundred of thousands of people live along Kenya's Masai Mara, Tsavo, Amboseli and Nairobi national parks where hundreds of rhinos and elephants are killed annually. Due to poor communications, they cannot be heard and their helping hand is silenced. Through consultations, and one on one talk, many have expressed their fears of livelihood if rhinos and elephants got extinct while as well seeking that their cries be heard. Due to this interest, we are obliged to work with them in this project. Most of the first hand data given in this proposal was presented by our potential beneficiaries. Though most of them have mobile phones and other devices, their levels of familiarity and Participation in the internet, social media and networking is low and demanding.
Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?
Anthony Mwangi, – sirlamabina@gmail.com, blog is environmentaldaily.blogspot.com and sirlamabinafiction.webs.com, Facebook name #Sirlama Bina and Twitter @sirlamabina
Galgallo Guyo- email Galgalog3@gmail.com, Blogs- abigbook.blogspot.com, Twitter @Galgalloguyo and facebook #Dangrasa Dergo
Moses Wandera- email mosesw30@gmail.com, Facebook #mois mois, Twitter@Moses Wandera
A team of 17 volunteers who are administrators of our online campaign “Outstanding Youths Have Issues OYHI2″
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Posting to communicate on any new technology available, any progress on poaching and ivory trade, how to save a rhinos, elephants and conservation of biodiversity.
Opinion polls shall be conducted and proceedings shall be collected and broadcasted.
Participants will continuously share their fear stories, those of courage and heroism. Their experiences and lessons shall be reviewed and broadcasted.
Every story and news will be made public to raise these voices locally, nationally and in the global community.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established or plan to establish that will contribute to the success of the project.
Existing Partnerships
– The community
– Local youth groups- Gabbenjets community organization
– National community based organizations-Reality Tested Youth Programmes
Future Partnerships
– Local administrations
– Kenya Forest Services KFS and Kenya Wildlife Services KWS
Management bodies- Masai Mara Game Reserve, Amboseli, Tsavo and Nairobi National parks.
How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?
-2000 beneficiaries will gain access to this programme directly and indirectly. Due to fact that social media is very contagious and is based on connection and spread of information, close to one million people will have read a story on this year alone.
-20 rangers and game wardens will be trained directly
-100 local administrators will be taught to use internet to receive communications from the public including or beneficiaries and make posts on conservation.
– Training local youth as trainers and ambassadors of this project enhances its sustainability.
Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.
Technology- mobile phones with internet connection to access Twitter, facebook and blogs.
– Additional applications and tools for android users will be employed.
– A park of free applications and freeware programs from the internet.
– This programming and web-based technology ensures dynamism and makes the project sustainable.
Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.
Conference hall with a capacity of 200 and a computer lab with 11 fast computers and 3G+ internet connection facility.
Computers are connected with projectors and workshop training facilities technology.
A WiFi transmitter has been furnished to enhance internet communications.
Computers are connected with a local area network LAN terminal hub to enhance communications and facilitation. An additional camera and a modem would do better.
What is your current relationship with the community with whom you plan to work? What makes you the most appropriate individual or organization to implement this project?
This is the community that we work with in various other projects. Their online empowerment and active participation will enhance even our efficiency And the way they receive our programmes. With previous and current acquisitions, this project will receive the highest impact and long-term benefits. This project will open ways for this community to serve as resource persons for the eradication of Rhinos horn and ivory trade.
What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?
Ivory and rhinos horn trade as well as poaching is an illegal trade which is driven by powerful guerrillas whose operations can be termed as largely unpredictable. However, by using our organization which is a legal entity that is protected by the law.
Reaching and targeting the right people as beneficiaries for this project could be a challenge. But working with local administrators will open ways for the right people.
How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?
Training sessions and workshops- trainers reports, training assessment forms, attendance registers, minutes of meetings, receipts of transactions, logbooks for coordinator, M&E kits and beneficiaries’ feedback.
Online campaigns- number of visitors, viewers and readers of blogs and online stories. Followers on Twitter, likes, posts and comments on facebook feeds. Number of unique or new feeds from the beneficiaries.
Comparing the level of participation of beneficiaries and the community in the internet And social media before and after engaging this project.
Progress- The changes in participation trends, data collection and submissions by the community to the local administration and anti-poaching institutions.
-Tracking and analysing new unique feeds by global society in local level
If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?
《Scaling In》
1. Consensus building with stakeholders on pretraining
2. Iidentification and recruitment of additional beneficiaries
3. First training workshop for trainers
4. Photo contest for participants on antipoaching
5. First round text and online campaign
6. Second training workshop
7. Consensus building with stakeholders on participation, midterm evaluation, reporting and improvement
8. Unlimited blogging week
9. Second round of text and online campaign
10. Participants opinion polls
11. Blogging week 2 and final round of text and online campaign
12. Last workshop training with post training questionnaires
《Scaling Out》
Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.
20 volunteers for 15hours each@ $1/hour- $300.00
Beneficiaries recruitment and coordinating expenses- $122.00
Calls, contacts, texts 10325 @0.04 dollars each- $ 413.00
Collecting & editing stories for blogs, honorary blog, blogging week campaigns $ other publications- $96.00
Travel arrangements- $102.00
Hardware- digital camera@ $175 and a 3G+ modem@ $41 – $216.00
3 workshops x $291.00 each- $873.00
Miscellaneous 3.28% – $72.00
Total Budget- $2194.00
Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?
Other support
-promotion of our digital content online including advertising on facebook and Google.
-Evaluation of the success, progress and impact of the project or linking use to other external evaluators.
Additional expert trainers and consultancy familiar with conservation of biodiversity, and environmental stewardship or youth empowerment.
Contact name
ANTHONY KARANI
Organization
Green Oerations in Leadership and Development (Gold Kenya)
