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Social enterprise distributing socially impactful products [106]

Pro bono
India

4-8 weeks

Our partner distributes life-improving products ranging from solar lights and fuel-efficient cookstoves to reusable water filters and agricultural tools. They then work with small rural retailers to sell the products and grow their businesses.

You will be the third AfID volunteer working with this partner and the focus of this placement will be around supporting them in ironing out some specific issues as they look to expand.

They are now selling more products on credit and are also in a position to borrow money. They want to understand what their internal working capital requirements are, and how best these might be met.

As part of this, they want to improve their controls in managing working capital to shop owners. At present, for example, to encourage businesses to use their app and to pay cash on delivery, they are offering incentives (better pricing on the products). However, they do not feel they have enough internal controls to enforce these.

This role requires a volunteer that is comfortable working in a busy environment and more than 50% of the time independently, as the team members are frequently travelling inside India.