Delivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers – Day 3 Training
A short video from day 3 of PTP’s mini-MBA for street cobblers, a trial of shorter clips, with the full session recording offered on request.
The record
Field notes
The work began in 2011 with a survey of 444 street cobblers across Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. These notes were written as it happened, from July 2012.
Delivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers – Day 2 Training
A video from day 2 of the PTP mini-MBA, also called the business growth programme, being delivered to street cobblers, with a link to more training videos.
Delivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers – Day 1 Training
A video of day 1 of PTP’s business growth programme for street cobblers, taken from the training recordings the team uses to improve delivery.
PTP’s hypothesis for and style of engagement stands vindicated
After the first phase of monitoring and evaluation of the mini-MBA, two street cobblers talked on video about customer care, costs, pricing and higher revenue.
Rise of the Phoenix
Batal Khan lost the Karachi shoe shop he had built when a riot burned it down, and restarted as a street cobbler in Islamabad on PTP’s growth programme.
Letting Change speak for its self
Video interviews with street cobblers from the second cohort, recorded a month after they finished the PTP business growth programme.
We knew it was never going to be easy
In November 2012 PTP lost a cohort of 30 street cobblers in Rawalpindi after a delegate made extortionate demands, and learned to keep cohorts small.
Diary log following the very first Business Growth Workshop for Street Cobblers
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Word from Dara Adam Khel
A video interview with a young professional from Darra Adam Khel, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on life, Taliban recruitment and poverty, after the October 2012 bombing.
Business Growth Manual for Street Cobblers – The field test log
Field test log from 3 to 7 September 2012: four street cobblers attended five evening sessions on business planning, marketing, pricing and record keeping.
Field notes by email
One email a month: what we ran, what changed and what did not work. No other mail, and you can unsubscribe from any of it.