Our Mission
Peace Through Prosperity: business training for micro-entrepreneurs in marginalised communities
We improve the environment for peace building within marginalised and conflict affected communities by nurturing prosperity and alleviating poverty.
We empower micro-entrepreneurs to become better owner-managers of their business so that they can build a better future for themselves, their family and their community.
In brief
What Peace Through Prosperity does
Peace Through Prosperity is a social transformation organisation running low-cost poverty alleviation programmes for micro-entrepreneurs in marginalised and conflict-affected communities. Its core programme, the mini-MBA, is four days of teaching followed by three months of one-to-one coaching, delivered free and in the participant’s own language.
Since 2012 the organisation has worked with more than 4,000 micro-entrepreneurs across Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt, Tanzania, Türkiye, Jordan and Angola. Participants report 45% average revenue growth and 97% average profitability growth. Every programme is open sourced once validated, so other communities can run it themselves.
How we work
Approach
We leverage design thinking, core principles and values of agility to design low cost, immediate impact social transformation programmes that once validated are open sourced for others to use in alleviating poverty and improving livelihood security.
Results
Impact
The impact our programmes have had include:
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Double digit revenue and profitability growth
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Financial inclusion and independence
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Local employment through business growth
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Social mobility
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Inclusion of participant’s children in mainstream education
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Improved self-esteem and sense of ‘right’
Our participants have on average benefited from 45% growth in revenue and 97% growth in profitability.
Across 32 marginalised communities we are engaged in Pakistan, Yemen and Egypt.
For individuals from within the communities we work in Pakistan and Yemen.
What we do
Our Programmes
mini-MBA
Four consecutive days, two hours a day, in cohorts of no more than twenty-five. Owner managers learn to price, plan, sell and read their own numbers through practical exercises rather than lectures, and keep the support for three months of coaching afterwards. Graduates carry on meeting each month in group workshops that cut across cohorts, which is where most of the crowd sourced problem solving happens.
Participants average 45% revenue growth and 97% profitability growth.
Numu
A two-day bootcamp in agile and systems thinking, then twelve weeks of coaching while participants run a real change project in their own community, with no budget and nobody’s permission required. Young people learn to read the system they live in, test one small change, look honestly at what happened and go again.
Led by us in Türkiye and Jordan, including inside the Baqa’a refugee camp. Field editions run on sponsorship, and are free to the young people who take part.
We also run Accelerate, an experiment that takes design thinking and agile training remotely to tech and non-tech startups founded in marginalised communities.
Get involved
Get Involved
We believe social transformation only works when it is built from the ground up, led by people and supported by people like you, me and us. Ours is an experiment in people-led, ground-up social transformation at scale, and we would like you to join us.
Volunteer opportunities
We invite you to join our remote coaching programme. If you’re willing to commit two hours a month to coach micro-entrepreneurs, one of our coaches will teach you how, and you’ll contribute directly to the development of micro-entrepreneurs in marginalised communities.
At the moment we are looking for volunteers with Arabic and Urdu language skills to coach our participants remotely over WhatsApp, Signal or Zoom.
Make a Donation
We do not rely on grants. Grants come with strings attached, and we believe in progressive social transformation that is good for all human kind.
One contribution carries a micro-entrepreneur through the whole thing: four days of teaching and the three months of coaching that follow.