Table 2

Description of study sub arms, with eligibility, amounts and other intervention details assigned to each group

Raffle treatment armRaffle control arm
Education treatment armSub-arm 1: education incentive and raffle
A: Education incentive for enrolling in and attending public or private school in Eswatini:
  • If enrolled in school in Eswatini, then receive E200 that school year

  • If 80% or higher attendance in a school term, then receive E400 for that term


B: Education incentive for initiating and completing upgrading classes:
  • If enrolled in upgrading classes in Eswatini, then receive E700 that school year

  • If applied for SGCSE exams at end of upgrading classes, then receive E700 that school year


C: Education incentive for initiating and sitting for exams at university, vocational school or technical college:
  • If registered at University or College in Eswatini, then receive E700 that academic year

  • If seated for the annual exam at the end of the academic year, then receive E700


D: Education incentive for initiating and completing a short course:
  • If started a short course, then receive E700 that calendar year (max 1 per calendar year)

  • If the short course is completed, then receive E700 that calendar year for it


E: Intensified fee subsidy intervention for education for participants returning to any form of education in 2018
  • Eligibility: If not enrolled in any form of education in 2017, then eligible for education fee subsidy of E2900 in 2018.

  • For eligible participants: If enrolled in a public school, upgrading class, a University or College, or a short course, then education fees paid to the institution directly, up to E 2900 in a calendar year


F: Raffle:
  • In every raffle round (seven rounds in total), 200 participants randomly selected from sub-arms 1 and 3 selected for participation in raffle

  • If tests negative for Trichomonas vaginalis and Syphilis; then eligible for raffle prize of E1000, with 80 raffle winners selected every raffle round.

Sub-arm 2: education incentive only
A: Education incentive for enrolling in and attending public or private school in Eswatini:
  • If enrolled in school in Eswatini, then receive E200 that school year

  • If 80% or higher attendance in a school term, then receive E400 for that term


B: Education incentive for initiating and completing upgrading classes:
  • If enrolled in upgrading classes in Eswatini, then receive E700 that school year

  • If applied for SGCSE exams at end of upgrading classes, then receive E700 that school year


C: Education incentive for initiating and sitting for exams at University, vocational school or technical college:
  • If registered at University or College in Eswatini, then receive E700 that academic year

  • If seated for the annual exam at the end of the academic year, then receive E700


D: Education incentive for initiating and completing a short course:
  • If started a short course, then receive E700 that calendar year (max one per calendar year)

  • If the short course is completed, then receive E700 that calendar year for it


E: Intensified fee subsidy intervention for education for participants returning to any form of education in 2018
  • Eligibility: If not enrolled in any form of education in 2017, then eligible for education fee subsidy of E2900 in 2018.

  • For eligible participants: If enrolled in a public school, upgrading class, a University or College, or a short course, then education fees paid to the institution directly, up to E 2900 in a calendar year

Education control armSub-arm 3: raffle only
A: Raffle
  • In every raffle round (seven rounds in total), 200 participants randomly selected from sub-arms 1 and 3 selected for participation in raffle

  • If tests negative for Trichomonas vaginalis and Syphilis; then eligible for raffle prize of E1000, with 80 raffle winners selected every raffle round.

Sub-arm 4: no invervention
  • No education incentive

  • No raffle

  • E, Emalangeni (Eswatini national currency) (1 US$ = 13.9 E).; SGCSE, Swaziland General Certificate of Secondary Education.