We believe every business must be a sustainable business

We support clients in solving societal challenges around poverty, food security and livelihoods by improving the value chain to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. In collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance, we have developed a strategy that aims to improve livelihoods for small-holder farmers by providing enhanced market access and better prices for those adopting sustainable practices.​

Together with the World Wide Fund for Nature, we are developing policy recommendations to inform the UN Plastic Treaty negotiations. Based on insights from city-level policies and actions that aim to reduce plastic pollution in Asia, recommendations focus on supporting globally binding rules that will catalyse and scale city-level interventions to address waste challenges.​

By helping to unlock access to affordable and reliable renewable electricity, we are supporting an equitable energy transition. We collaborated with HSBC Bank Middle East, the World Green Economy Organization and the London School of Economics to produce research on enabling a “just transition” in emerging economies, so the benefits of transitioning to a low-carbon economy are equitably distributed across society.

We leverage an expansive ecosystem to promote the inclusion and empowerment of women, people with disabilities, and communities left behind. In partnership with Sightsavers India, we developed a diagnostic framework to support equality and diversity by integrating gender mainstreaming across the organization, from corporate to programming. Leveraging our experiences in policy analysis and our network of subject matter experts, we developed recommendations for the organization to become a leader in supporting gender equality.

Together with our clients, we are contributing to advancing sustainable, equitable health and nutrition systems globally. We are working with Merck for Mothers (known as MSD for Mothers outside of the U.S. and Canada) and their $25M Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth initiative. We helped design and launch a maternal health Community of Practice to support collaboration and amplify collective impact for maternal health across six coalitions in Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and India.

We use our global reach and extensive capabilities to respond to critical human needs in times of emergencies and disasters. We partnered with The Human Aspect to redefine mental health care for refugees and beyond. Our partnership helped create a new platform that provides no- and low-cost digital mental health support.

Leveraging our Sustainable Value Chain offering, we helped a technology company to define its responsible procurement strategy with environmental and social priorities—encompassing human rights, emissions management, supplier diversity, equity and inclusion, and social impact—to support their corporate sustainability objectives and net-zero commitments.

We work with our clients to expand the availability of useful, affordable, responsible and sustainable financial products and services, driving sustainable impact at scale. As part of the World Bank Group's International Finance Corporation commitment to help rebuild Ukrainians' economic resilience, we partnered with Women’s World Banking to conduct an in-depth market assessment, designed user journey maps to better understand individuals' financial and other needs, and made recommendations for how financial service providers can support this vulnerable population to help advance economic and financial inclusion.

Junior Achievement Europe (JA Europe) is the continent's largest provider of youth education programs for entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy. To support JA Europe's ambitious goal of empowering 20 million learning experiences by 2050, Accenture Development Partnerships helped design the governance framework, business model and go-to-market strategy for a new initiative: a venture network and micro-fund to help alumni scale their entrepreneurial ventures.

We helped one of the world's largest human resources technology companies better understand the potential market size of occupational skilling and training ecosystems across four countries (India, Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States) to position a new skills-based hiring product with the potential to serve millions of job seekers from underserved communities around the world.