Below are some useful resources on last mile distribution
From the GDC:
- GDC Strategy 2022-25 (March 2022)
- Last Mile Distribution: State of the sector update 2022 (March 2022)
- Members snapshot: an overview of GDC membership (as of March 2022)
- Wholesalers for beneficial products: The missing link for impact at the last mile (2022)
- Gender in Business: Lessons Learned for Last Mile Distributors (GDC and Value for Women, March 2022)
- Digital transformation to support last mile distribution: overcoming barriers together (GDC and Energy Catalyst, 2021)
- Building and managing a board: lessons for last mile distributors (2021)
- The growth and fundraising journeys of last mile distributors (2021)
- How is the last mile distribution sector adapting and innovating following COVID-19? (2021)
- Last Mile Distribution: State of the sector report (2019)
- Finding the sweet spot: Identifying affordable quality solar products for the last mile (2020)
- Coping with shock: Last mile distributors and COVID-19 (2020)
- Impact Summary: Taking stock of lessons learned and future plans, after the GDC’s first 18 months (2020)
- Poster: How to build innovation into your organisation’s DNA (Feb 2021)
From the wider LMD sector:
- BIG IDEA Framework (Bopinc, 2021)
- The Connect White Paper (GOGLA, 2021)
- Energising Resilience: Climate Co-Benefits from Clean Energy Projects (EEP and NDF, 2021)
- 2021 Solar Appliance Snapshots (Efficiency for Access, 2021)
- How IT can work for you: Costs and benefits of technology across Last-Mile Distributors (PaygOps, 2021)
- Mindset drives success: Selling beneficial products at the base of the pyramid (Hystra, 2021)
- Uses and impacts of solar water pumps (Efficiency for Access, 2021)
- Women and e-commerce in Africa (IFC, 2021)
- Electric Pressure Cooker Usability Testing Buyer’s Guide (Efficiency for Access, 2021)
- Off-grid productive use of energy (PUE) catalogues (Power Africa, 2021)
- Getting Repaid in Asset Finance: A Guide to Managing Credit Risk (CGAP, 2021)
- Supporting last-mile women energy entrepreneurs: What works and what does not (ENERGIA, 2018)
- Last Mile Agent Networks: Why Public-Private Partnerships Matter (Christopher Blackburn / Sun Connect, 2019)
- Impact Tracker Tech Catalog: a free, online catalogue of affordable simple tools to help last mile distributors to collect data, communicate with clients and measure impact (Kopernik, 2019)
- Last Mile Distribution Playbook: a 12-module course based on best practices from pioneering distribution enterprises (Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, 2018)
- Last Mile Solutions for Low-Income Customers: Lessons learned from effort to build sustainable rural value chains for essential products and services (Shell Foundation, 2018)
- Marketing Innovative Devices for the Base of the Pyramid and the corresponding presentation of the findings: Lessons from 15 global pioneers that challenge conventional sales & marketing approaches to successfully serve the poorest (Hystra, 2013)
- Marketing Nutrition for the Base of the Pyramid: Introducing successful practices for improved access to nutritious complementary foods – key lessons from case studies (Hystra, 2014)
- Webinar on distribution in the FMCG sector: (Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business, 2017)
- How to reach consumers at the BoP: Best practices for BoP ‘Door-to-Door’ distribution (MIT Practical Impact Alliance, 2015)
- Reaching deep in low-income markets: Enterprises achieving impact, sustainability and scale at the base of the pyramid (Monitor Deloitte, 2017)
- Inclusive Business Hub: know-how: last mile distribution at the BoP
- A Business-First Approach to Gender Inclusion: how to think about gender inclusion in small and medium enterprise operations (Value for Women, 2018)
- ASPIRE Framework: a step-by-step guide to scaling up inclusive distribution models (Unilever and BoP Innovation Centre, 2018)
- Efficient BoP marketing and distribution strategies: (2SCALE Consortium, 2018)