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Empowering underprivileged students beyond financial aid: Insights from a scholarship program's monitoring and evaluation

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  • Mutevere, Miriam
  • Dzinamarira, Thulani Runyararo
  • Muzenda, Lorcadia
  • Nyoka, Stephen
  • Chokudinga, Valentine
  • Mugoniwa, Tawanda
  • Moyo, Enos
  • Kakumura, Fortunate
  • Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa

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This paper examines the impact of a scholarship program on underprivileged students, drawing on data from a two-year monitoring and evaluation (M&E) process. The report identifies both enablers and barriers to academic success among scholarship beneficiaries.

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  • Mutevere, Miriam & Dzinamarira, Thulani Runyararo & Muzenda, Lorcadia & Nyoka, Stephen & Chokudinga, Valentine & Mugoniwa, Tawanda & Moyo, Enos & Kakumura, Fortunate & Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa, 2024. "Empowering underprivileged students beyond financial aid: Insights from a scholarship program's monitoring and evaluation," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:epplan:v:105:y:2024:i:c:s0149718924000508
    DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102448
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    1. Robert Sparrow, 2007. "Protecting Education for the Poor in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of a Scholarship Programme in Indonesia," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 69(1), pages 99-122, February.
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