Empowering ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs to deliver life-changing products to the doorsteps of the poor

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Living GoodsLightning Presentation | Presented by Rashmi Pillai

Social Franchising for Health Conference, Cebu, October 22-24, 2014

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2012: 6MN Child Deaths, 44% under 1.

Majority of these deaths are: Preventable and treatable by products and services that cost less than a cup of coffee.

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Collectively we seem to be failing these children.

Private sector: High Prices, Inconsistent QualityPublic Sector: Rampant Stock-outs, poorly designed systems and funding deficits.

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Our Solution:

A door-to-door entrepreneurial health worker distribution model.

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Our Solution:

Our agents deliver life-saving, life changing products at the door-steps of the poor while earning incomes through the sale of goods from a unique product basket.

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Have been successful? We think we have!

JPAL-IPA recently concluded a 5 year RCT trial across 200+ villages. Areas where our agents are present witnessed a 26% drop in child-mortality at net cost per capita of less than $2/ annually.

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So what’s next?

• We are planning to scale up 5X in Uganda and will be 2800 agents impacting close to 400,000 HHs or 2MN people by 2018.

• But we want to expand our impact beyond Uganda.

• We want implementers in other countries to partner with us. We have a remarkable last-mile distribution platform, where our agents earn at least $15-20/ month while consistently delivering health impact.

• So we would like to join hands and be the change that we would like to see.