Abstract / Excerpt:

The study tackles the Education Matching Grant Project (EMGP) of the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID's) Growth with Equity in Mindanao III (GEM-3) Program. It explores the experiences of its beneficiary schools in implementing their individual EMG Projects.

Despite the existence of EMG guidelines, most of its beneficiary schools still expressed difficulty in implementing the project such as on the 50 percent cost-share counterpart requirement. The study sought to determine the right mix of procedures that would simplify the project implementation, avoid delays in the project completion, and minimize difficulties both on the side of the beneficiary schools and on Area Coordinators of EMGP.

The researcher conducted a series of interview to EMGP beneficiary schools. The respondents (School Heads and PTA Presidents) were asked to discuss their experiences in implementing EMGP following its general guidelines. Out of the experiences, they were asked what were the challenges or difficulties they encountered. Out of the challenges/ difficulties, they were also asked what they could suggest or recommend to USAID's GEM Program to improve the project.

As evident on the experiences of beneficiary schools, the study suggests that cost-share counterpart effort was an important factor because it would develop a sense of ownership and responsibility among beneficiary schools. In short, increased counterpart effort is synonymous to increased empowerment.

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Source Institution	Ateneo de Davao University
Unit	Social Science
Authors	Raphael Antonio F. Punzalan
Page Count	25
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	March 1, 2016
Tags	Beneficiary Schools, Education, IMPLEMENTATION, Social Science

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