Chapter
Sana’a: the mini-MBA in Yemen, 2019 to 2020
Peace Through Prosperity ran its mini-MBA programme for micro-entrepreneurs in Sana’a, Yemen, from June 2019, led by a locally based team and delivered in partnership with the Yemeni NGO YODET.
Yemen is one of Peace Through Prosperity’s chapters, alongside Pakistan, Egypt, Tanzania, Türkiye, Jordan and Angola.
Timeline
The mini-MBA in Yemen: what ran, and when
The mini-MBA launched in Sana’a in June 2019. By 8 October 2019, 46 entrepreneurs had enrolled over the first four months. The course then ran as a one-week programme covering business leadership, financial management, scalability and growth, and business agility, backed by ongoing mentorship from local grassroots organisations. That is an older shape of the programme: the mini-MBA today runs as four days of teaching followed by three months of coaching, a structure fixed in September 2026.
After the pilot, the programme moved to a continuous intake of around 20 entrepreneurs a month.
People
Who ran it
The Sana’a chapter was led by Yusra Hussin Alshahari. Her team: Sarah Abdulkhalq Sallam, Jadwa Hussin Alshahari, Maram Mojeep Hussien and Manar Moneer AlGnahi. Peace Through Prosperity thanks the team for staying focused and true to purpose.
The chapter ran in partnership with the Yemeni NGO YODET. Hilmi at YODET ran a series of experiments with Peace Through Prosperity across the 18 months, from mini-MBA groups to agility workshops. The programme as it runs today is on the mini-MBA programme page.
In numbers
Sana’a: the settled record
Peace Through Prosperity’s settled record for the Yemen chapter, covering 2019 to 2021, is a decline.
Everyone in the Sana’a chapter across 2019 to 2021.
Settled decline across all 483 participants.
Settled decline across the same 483 participants.
Context
Where this sits in Peace Through Prosperity’s record
Peace Through Prosperity’s settled figure for the Yemen chapter, covering 2019 to 2021 across 483 participants, is a decline: -30% average revenue and -37% average profitability. Growth figures published in December 2020 covered only 219 of those 483 participants, measured partway through the chapter, before the later 2021 cohorts, which performed markedly worse. They are not the settled record for Yemen.
An independent analysis of the underlying participant registers, carried out in September 2026 and covering 348 individual records across the 2020 and 2021 cohorts, corroborates this: a weighted decline of 55.5% in revenue and 61.1% in profit over the fuller period, the same direction as the published figure and, if anything, more severe.
Peace Through Prosperity’s headline growth figure elsewhere on this site, about 18% average revenue growth and 85% average profitability growth, is drawn from 974 digitised mini-MBA participant records across Pakistan and Egypt, 2012 to 2022, and excludes Yemen for this reason.
Read the original posts: the October 2019 press release announcing the mini-MBA in Yemen and the December 2020 update on 18 months of the Sana’a chapter.