Dear list,
Risker posed an excellent question in the AffCom thread about *review and
development of movement funding*, which could use its own dedicated
thread. Riffing on the theme, here are a dozen questions for anyone who
knows part of the answer -- particularly those who helped develop the 2019
recommendations on resource allocation
<http://Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Resource_Allocation#Recommendations>
,
the 2020 approach to hubs and participatory resource allocation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Ensure_Equity_in_Decision-making#Participatory_resource_allocation>,
and the grants strategy relaunch
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021>
.
We can move this discussion to meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MSIG>
if the thread becomes unwieldy. (:
*1. Current state of movement funding*
1a. Roughly what % of global fundraising is currently allocated to
affiliates, or other entities + projects not run by the WMF? (*my poor
guess <User:Sj/wikilibrium#Timeline_of_funds_distribution>*)
1b. Roughly how much regional fundraising goes directly to major
affiliates?
1c. Which affiliates with annual plan grants have been growing over time,
and how is the expansion of existing budgets approved?
1d. Which affiliates have gotten their first APG in the past five years,
and how has that developed over time?
*2. Current review process*
2a. How is funding by WMF of movement affiliates (general operations, and
large specific projects) currently determined? Does the Board engage with
this?
2b. Is the funding of affiliate work linked to goals of increasing equity
across the world, and supporting underrepresented communities? If so, how /
how is this visualized?
2c. What other mechanisms for focusing and allocating resources are good
examples to replicate?
2d. What other bilateral projects (such as joint projects, and grant or
microgrant programs), run by large affiliates and hubs other than the WMF,
currently exist? Which seem like examples to replicate?
*3. Desired futures!*
3a. What movement bodies are expected to play any role in recommendations
about funding (extending, withdrawing, denying funding) to new and existing
affiliates, now that the FDC is inactive?
3b. Is there a possibility of the FDC returning? How do past FDC members
have about this? What was found to be good and bad about the FDC process?
3c. What elements of this is the global council expected to take up in
its first year? What elements are hubs expected to take up, now and in the
future?
3d. What roles do we envision each of {WMF, hubs, affiliates, community
members} to play in reviewing movement budgets/plans and the volume and
focus of future funding [re]allocation?