Delivering the Business Growth Program for Street Cobblers – Day 4 Training
A short video of day 4 of the PTP mini-MBA, or Business Growth Programme, for street cobblers, with an offer of the full session recordings 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 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.
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.
Field notes by email
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