Peer Sourcing – Empowering Micro Entrepreneurs
How 9Others dinners in Qayyumabad and Korangi 2 brought street vendors and cobblers together to share suppliers, shop leads and help for a vendor in trouble.
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Transforming the Landscape – Skilling up Karachi’s entrepreneurs
How PTP surveyed street vendors and cobblers in seven Karachi neighbourhoods in 2014, building trust before selecting participants for the mini-MBA.
Peace building through micro-entrepreneurship development – this is what we do
Since early 2014 PTP has been running surveys and its mini-MBA in Karachi, aiming for 400 surveys and 275 micro-entrepreneurs. This post re-introduces its work.
Haripur – Changed Livelihoods and Lives
Results from Haripur: 63 of 70 street cobblers stayed with a one-week mini-MBA and 12 weeks coaching, averaging revenue growth of 51% and profit growth of 83%.
Bahawalpur Needs Assessment – creating an environment for peace through livelihood development
Findings from interviews with close to 500 micro-entrepreneurs in 2012 and 2013, and why rural and semi-urban households in Bahawalpur need more than one trade.
Improved Livelihoods in Haripur (KPK) – update
The Haripur project ended in November 2013 after 70 Entrepreneurs of Circumstance took the mini-MBA and 12 weeks of consulting and coaching.
Haripur – one to one coaching for entrepreneurs of circumstance
A short post on one-to-one coaching and consulting for street cobblers in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with two photographs from coaching visits (faces blurred).
Haripur (KPK) – progress report
Two mini-MBA cohorts in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa took in 70 street cobblers against a budget for 50, ending in a graduation and plans for a cobblers’ union.
Day 4 & 5 of the mini-MBA program in Haripur, KPK (Cohort 2)
Cohort 2 of the Haripur mini-MBA ended; PTP reached over 70 street cobblers across two cohorts against a target of 50, with three months of coaching next.
Day 3 of the mini-MBA program in Haripur, KPK (Cohort 2)
A short update from day 3 of the second mini-MBA cohort in Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with an appeal for funds to reach more street cobblers.