Social Impact
At CCBA, our purpose is to refresh Africa and create shared value.
Our business is centred on a local approach – we produce locally, distribute locally and where possible, source locally.
A better shared future
Our aspiration is not only to reflect the diversity of the communities where we operate but also to lead and advocate for a better shared future.
Community engagement
People are at the centre of everything we do, from our employees to those who touch our business to the communities we call home.
Community involvement allows us to bring positive, measurable change to both the communities in which we operate and to our business.
Supporting food vendors in Tanzania and Zanzibar
Coca-Cola Kwanza, a subsidiary of CCBA supports a training and mentorship programme for woman food vendors in Tanzania and Zanzibar, called Mwanamke Shujaa (“A Brave Woman”). The training covers key areas like bookkeeping, customer care and capital growth. Participants also receive business tools, including a gas stove, gas cylinder, cooler, crate of soft drinks, apron and a table.
Strengthening health systems by leveraging our distribution expertise and system network
Project Last Mile is a public-private partnership operating across Africa to strengthen health systems. It leverages the Coca-Cola system’s expertise in distribution to help governments efficiently and reliably get medicines and supplies to facilities and patients, especially down to the last mile. Project Last Mile also utilizes Coca-Cola’s strategic marketing expertise to increase the uptake of public health sector products and services, such as vaccines, medicines and condoms.
One example of how we are empowering and strengthening health systems is in Mozambique.
With support from the National Council to Combat HIV/AIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Project Last Mile partnered with CCBA to develop tailored last mile delivery solutions and strategic marketing efforts aimed at improving demand for government condoms and ensuring a stable supply at access points most likely to be used.
Since 2016, Project Last Mile has also partnered with the Mozambique’s Ministry of Health and the Global Fund to strengthen the country’s public health system. Through this partnership, Project Last Mile has leveraged CCBA’s expertise in supply chain and logistics to identify opportunities to save costs and ensure delivery for the public health sector.
Supporting local entrepreneurs
Our subsidiary, Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa, launched the Bizniz in a Box initiative in 2016 with a view to create an innovative youth and women empowerment programme which helps build township and rural economies by developing black youth-owned businesses that are responsive to the needs of their communities. It aims to help empower young people and reduce youth unemployment.
Bizniz in a Box aims to create an ecosystem of viable micro-businesses offering complementary products and services in a community, using a spaza shop as the anchor. Each business operates out of a custom-designed container.
Training packaging collectors
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa in Mozambique supports training on health and safety, waste management as well as technical, micro-business and leadership skills to help women packaging collectors develop their businesses as part of a programme called “Valorisation and Empowerment of Women” (VEM).
