What we do
Our Programmes
Peace Through Prosperity’s social transformation programmes take a few days of teaching, then three months of coaching, delivered inside the communities themselves and paid for by us rather than by the people taking part. Two programmes are built that way. The newest is not, and that is deliberate.
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, then 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 actually happens.
Participants average about 18% revenue growth and 85% 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 no permission required.
Led by Peace Through Prosperity in Türkiye, Jordan, Angola, Ethiopia and Pakistan, some editions under other names, including inside the Baqa’a refugee camp, and developed with Change Craft.
Field editions run on sponsorship, and are free to the young people who take part.
Why they are built this way
Teaching is the cheap part
Anyone can run a workshop. The difficulty is the eight weeks afterwards, when the new practice is awkward, the first experiment has failed and going back to the old way costs nothing.
So both programmes put the short, intense teaching at the front and spend most of their effort on the months that follow. Cohorts stay small enough that we know everyone by name.
We take no grants. The programmes are funded by the founders, friends of the organisation, the team, and a small number of corporate sponsors, which is why we can keep them free at the point of use and refuse to scale them faster than we can coach.
Also running
Everything is open
We also run Accelerate, an experiment taking the same method to startups founded in marginalised communities, delivered remotely and kept deliberately small.
The full mini-MBA curriculum, the concept papers and the original street cobbler research are published for anyone to take, translate and run without asking us first.
Newest
The Grassroots Internships
A different shape from the other two: no teaching block and no coaching tail. Twelve young people in Tanzania and Pakistan ran a four-week community experiment of their own choosing, with a stipend paid on completion, then had the work scored by five reviewers against a published scoring guide. The first cohort ran in the summer of 2026 and presents in public on 23 October.
Get involved
Run one of these social transformation programmes where you are
If you work with micro-entrepreneurs or with young people in a place where opportunity is thin, we would like to hear from you. If you would rather fund the work, what it costs to carry one micro-entrepreneur, and to sponsor a full cohort, is set out on our donate page.