“Now, way back, I worked with the AKRSP (Aga Khan Rural Support Programme) in northern Pakistan doing what was then called ‘bottom-up’ economic development in village communities. Their work and some recent reading I did into Ernesto Sirolli’s vision of Enterprise Facilitation aligns so closely to my personal view that the best way to enable people to improve the economic value of their lives (earn more, buy a house, feed your children, education etc) is to use the building block of small business as a lever. I delight in the fact that my academic studies were about the economy and third world development (as it was then called) and now I have the skills to align and correlate my interests in both fields and, moreover, to actually help people to achieve this for themselves through my work as a consultant. I love it!”
Ismailimail 