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Promotion
The MicroConsignment Model is a powerful solution that creates a way to get the “what” to the “who” through a “how” that creates village-level access to essential products/services whilst generating a compelling and profitable entrepreneurial opportunity. The MicroConsignment Model, with the recent augmentation of Social Entrepreneur Corps, is a proven method that is intelligently addressing the problem of access on a daily basis. CE Solutions continuous development and implementation of this model has helped tens of thousands of villagers gain access to needed products and services and is continually creating new, compelling income generating opportunities. This “Last Mile Solution” is a proven, social entrepreneurship model which is being implemented in the most inaccessible communities of rural Guatemala and we believe is replicable in any developing country in the world.
To briefly explain, CE Solutions leadership and Social Entrepreneur Corps interns execute the MicroConsignment Model to establish profitable income generating opportunities (and the infrastructure and network for a national, local social enterprise) for primarily women that to date are selling products such as wood burning stoves, reading glasses, water filters, seeds and gardening techniques and energy efficient light bulbs to villagers at an appropriate price, in the appropriate manner and at the appropriate place. Through the MicroConsignment Model local individuals with entrepreneurial qualities can start their own business through “sweat equity” and realize profits from inception. As well, we collaborate with local strategic partner organizations to adapt local solutions and train and support local entrepreneurs who serve rural communities within designated territories. What drives the model is that is an interdisciplinary, intuitive and non-linear approach whereby all stakeholders add value. The model utilizes a rotating capital mechanism with exceedingly low start- up costs that are continually reinvested. In essence, the MicroConsignment Model intervenes at all levels by creating an “ecosystem” whereby problems are diagnosed and products are encountered/designed which are then inserted into the distribution model via the locally trained and supported entrepreneurs.