— For organizations

Entrepreneurship programs,
end to end.

For NGOs, governments and development banks. Six services that carry a programme from cohort selection to a trading business — designed, built and delivered by one senior team.

Our work in Jordan is documented in a published World Bank report, co-authored by our co-founder.

Let's talkSee what we deliver
— On the recordThe World BankInternational Finance CorporationSPARKSocial Development BankBeVisioneersJusoor
Three co-founders on stage at the European Youth Award 2018 gala, each holding an award box, one holding a winner's certificate, with the ceremony backdrop behind them
— Recognised

European Youth Award, 2018. Sharqshop, co-founded by Saleem Najjar, took a winner's award at the gala ceremony — one of the three awards behind the training we deliver ourselves. Meet the team →

— What we deliver

Full-scale programs,
not workshops.

6,500+Entrepreneurs & professionals trained
5,000+Businesses digitised and selling online
5Countries delivered in — Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye
A full room of business owners, most of them women, seated facing a presenter and two screens reading test fast, test often in ArabicThe World Bank · Jordan
— How a partnership runs

A programme the client published.

Catalogues photographed, payments connected, delivery arranged, and an Arabic B2B marketplace built to carry the lot. The World Bank published the whole thing — figures, photographs and the parts that did not work — with our co-founder as a named author.

1,500Businesses on the platform
400Firms supported and trained
JD 217kB2B offers sent through it

In delivery now: Green Forward, the green-economy program led by SPARK — the latest chapter in a partnership running since 2018.

— The brief

Let's keep in touch.

Most of our partnerships start with a conversation, not a tender. Send the scope if you have one — or just introduce yourself and we'll do the same.

Say hello

Or write directly: saleem.najjar@umbrella500.com