A group of 100 technicians from the Ministry of Health are improving Malawi’s supply of life-saving immunisations after completing training in preventative
A strengthened cold chain system improves COVID-19 vaccination efforts in Malawi
For Wyson Chilonga and Liren Mkoloma, Health Surveillance Assistants (HSAs) at Mitundu Community Hospital in Malawi, ensuring COVID-19 vaccines remained
Exciting opportunity! INFUSE 2024 Call for Innovations in Global Health
With the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Project Last Mile is seeking to identify and support innovators and social enterprises which demonstrate a proven or promising market-based approach to improve the availability, access to, or uptake of family planning commodities or relevant products in Africa through Project Last Mile technical assistance in the area route-to-market. Successful applicants will be poised for growth and serving customers in eligible countries in Africa.
New collaboration and investment scales up innovation to improve vaccine delivery systems in Africa
Project Last Mile and Gavi partner to accelerate the scaling of innovations under the INFUSE platform with catalytic funding and expertise for high-impact, proven innovations.
Improving COVID-19 vaccine access and demand in Nairobi, Kenya
Leveraging funding from The Coca-Cola Foundation’s Stop the Spread funding, Project Last Mile led demand creation and cold chain equipment management strategies to support making vaccines more accessible and increase vaccine demand in Kenya
Strengthening the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in Eswatini
In the Kingdom of Eswatini in southern Africa, Project Last Mile is leveraging Coca-Cola system best practices in route-to-market, cold chain, and strategic marketing to strengthen supply and demand for COVID-19 vaccines, strategically collaborating with partners across workstreams to improve uptake and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines down to the last mile.
Project Last Mile’s 2021 annual report
With the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Project Last Mile is seeking to identify and support innovators and social enterprises which demonstrate a proven or promising market-based approach to improve the availability, access to, or uptake of family planning commodities or relevant products in Africa through Project Last Mile technical assistance in the area route-to-market. Successful applicants will be poised for growth and serving customers in eligible countries in Africa.
Project Last Mile’s 2020 annual report released
With the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Project Last Mile is seeking to identify and support innovators and social enterprises which demonstrate a proven or promising market-based approach to improve the availability, access to, or uptake of family planning commodities or relevant products in Africa through Project Last Mile technical assistance in the area route-to-market. Successful applicants will be poised for growth and serving customers in eligible countries in Africa.
Call for applications: matching health enterprises with private sector expertise to improve family planning
With the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Project Last Mile is seeking to identify and support innovators and social enterprises which demonstrate a proven or promising market-based approach to improve the availability, access to, or uptake of family planning commodities or relevant products in Africa through Project Last Mile technical assistance in the area route-to-market. Successful applicants will be poised for growth and serving customers in eligible countries in Africa.
Findings on the operational feasibility of maintaining ultra-cold temperatures to distribute COVID-19 vaccines – the availability of dry ice within the Coca-Cola value chain in 70 countries
Project Last Mile leveraged its networks within the Coca-Cola system in Africa, Latin America and the Pacific Islands to identify potential sources of dry ice and liquid carbon dioxide to evaluate availability of existing carbon dioxide. Fifteen bottler and 35 liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice suppliers from the Coca-Cola system were consulted for this assessment. The quantities of dry ice and liquid carbon dioxide available by country were mapped against demand determined by the COVAX Delivery Model and shortfalls in capacity were identified.