Steal Our Stuff
Empowering Marginalised Communities: Our Open-Source Initiative.
At Peace Through Prosperity we create lean, cost effective and quick to market social transformation programmes that have an immediate and lasting impact. Then we make them available to you, for free with support in your own language to put to good use.
Open source social transformation programmes
By open sourcing our materials, processes and learnings we have created a network of change makers.
We provide our materials under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which in spirit ensures our programmes are put to use free of cost to participants and improvements are shared back to the collective knowledge base so that all of us can benefit from any and all improvements across the network.
Get in touch, we’ll help you steal our stuff!
We open source language too: read about making the Scrum Guide available in Urdu.
Downloads
Everything below is released under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial licence described above. Take it, translate it,
adapt it, use it — just don’t charge the people you’re using it with.
- Business Growth Manual v4.0 (English, 2017) — 77 pages. The full five-day mini-MBA training manual.
- mini-MBA & Consulting Concept Paper v1.0 — 10 pages. How the programme is designed and why.
- Street Cobbler Survey Report, July 2012 — 45 pages. The baseline research the whole programme was built on.
- Peace Through Prosperity: A Four-Year Retrospective, February 2017 — 17 pages.
From our co-founder
The Grassroots Playbook
Seventeen community change projects, each written up so that a team of three to five people can run it with no budget, using only the skills and relationships already present in their neighbourhood. Every experiment is reviewed and validated before it joins the playbook.
It is written by our co-founder Kubair Shirazee and produced in partnership with Peace Through Prosperity. Teams across Angola, Ethiopia, Türkiye and Pakistan are running it now.
The guide runs to thirty-seven pages and is free to download in English, Urdu, Arabic, Bengali, French and Spanish, so that a team can work in the language their community actually speaks.