2024 Global Impact Report
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In the face of pressing societal challenges—from education and health equity to equity and inclusion at work—Deloitte is working to advance progress across our global society. Through the services Deloitte practitioners provide, our investments, and our portfolio of initiatives focused on creating educational and skills-building opportunities, we are helping to create a more equitable future.
Recognizing that we can accomplish more by working together, Deloitte actively engages with public and private organizations, Deloitte clients and alliance relationships, and others in our ecosystem to help create solutions to complex societal challenges. Over the past year, we have continued to contribute our know-how and resources as part of Deloitte’s worldwide commitment to invest more than US$3 billion over 10 years (FY2023-FY2032) in societal impact initiatives to help address systemic problems in communities around the world.
Impacting 100 million futures
In this quickly changing and increasingly digital world, people need new skills in order to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Education and enhanced job skills are critical for enabling opportunity and progress—and helping more people succeed. Since 2017, Deloitte has focused our network’s collective resources on investing in education, digital skills development, and training opportunities.
Our WorldClass ambition is to positively impact 100 million futures by 2030 through programs and collaborations with leading educational organizations. With Deloitte donating funds, and our people volunteering their time and abilities, our efforts have provided support to millions of students, teachers, and education leaders worldwide. We have impacted 81 million individuals since 2017, including 24 million during FY2024.
For example, through the Deloitte China Children Care Program, Deloitte China volunteers provide mentoring and support to primary school students in rural communities, helping to bridge the opportunity gap between urban and rural areas. Taking advantage of improved internet infrastructure in many rural communities, Deloitte China volunteers help to nurture students’ social and emotional skills, provide educational advice, and empower each child they work with through regular video calls.
In collaboration with the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), Deloitte NSE developed a green skills training course to support a fair transition to a green economy. In 2024, Deloitte NSE and IEMA piloted the program in the Middle East and the UK. To date, nearly 400 people have completed the course, including students, university professors, and under-represented groups in society.
Working together to tackle collective challenges
Over the past year, we have collaborated with Deloitte clients, governments, innovators, and nonprofits around the world to help drive impact on some of the challenges facing society. Working together, we can draw on Deloitte’s business acumen, technology, resources, and global network to deepen the societal impact of nonprofits and community organizations.
In Indonesia, Deloitte Asia Pacific and Barry Callebaut, a leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, have collaborated to create a program that provides skill-building education for women in remote regions across Indonesia. The initiative supports women as they work to develop their entrepreneurial talents by improving financial literacy, implementing marketing strategies, and generating sustainable income that contributes to their families and strengthens their communities for the better.
Established by the Princess of Wales, the Business Taskforce for Early Childhood aims to transform how society, and business, prioritizes and supports children during their early years. A founding member of the taskforce, Deloitte NSE joined with other taskforce members to publish The Royal Foundation Early Years report, which makes the case for how investing in early childhood can deliver up to approximately US$58.6 billion (£45.5 billion) in value for the UK economy each year and sets out the role businesses can play in unlocking these benefits.
Deeper look: Collaborating across our ecosystem to advance sustainable development
Deloitte is committed to driving long-term, systemic change and creating more equitable access to opportunity. As part of that commitment, Deloitte US, the World Economic Forum (WEF), Salesforce, Citi, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and more than 20 other organizations came together to launch the Yes San Francisco (Yes SF) Urban Sustainability Challenge. Yes SF is the first location-based challenge launched through UpLink, a WEF digital platform to foster innovation and crowdsource solutions to global challenges, to address the intractable problems San Francisco has faced following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Advancing health equity around the world
Our focus on collaborating with like-minded organizations for greater societal impact also includes the work of the Deloitte Health Equity Institutes (DHEIs), which bring business, government, and community leaders together to help advance health equity. Each of the DHEIs drives an array of cross-sector collaborations, philanthropic investments, and research activities focused on the unique health challenges in their respective regions.
For instance, in Spanish Latin America (S-LATAM), the S-LATAM DHEI is engaged in collaborative efforts to help improve access to timely diagnosis and treatment of breast and cervical cancer in Peru and Mexico. During the past year, the India DHEI continued to expand its initiative to reduce air pollution (and its impacts on health) caused by farmers burning crop stubble, using a combination of education, equipment supply enhancements, and a digital solution to connect farmers with end users of crop residue. The US DHEI is collaborating with the Joslin Asian American Diabetes Initiative to help reduce diabetes disparities for at-risk Asian American populations through community outreach initiatives. And the European DHEI published a landmark report, in collaboration with Mind & Place2Be, on the cost of mental health as well as the impact that children’s mental health has on parents and productivity.
In addition, Deloitte supports the Global Health Equity Network (GHEN). At the 2024 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Deloitte convened two high-impact sessions to ignite action on health equity. Alongside these efforts, more than 100 organizations, including Deloitte Global and many of the world’s largest employers, have signed the GHEN’s Zero Health Gaps Pledge, demonstrating a collective drive to close health equity gaps and foster global change.
Measuring the transformative impact of Olympic and Paralympic Games firsts
During the past year, we also furthered Deloitte’s "partnership with purpose" with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee, which applies Deloitte’s deep management and business consulting acumen to help the IOC realize the possibilities of its Olympic Agenda 2020+5 and help drive initiatives as broad as digital transformation, eGames strategy, and the IOC AI Agenda. It also includes projects related to sustainability and athlete career transition and well-being. In addition, Deloitte and the IOC launched The First Effect, a co-branded campaign that sets out to create a new metric for success beyond the podium, measuring the transformative impact of firsts that happen at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The campaign features the stories of trailblazing athletes from around the world—including Sarah Attar, the first female to represent Saudi Arabia in athletics at the Olympic Games, and South African swimmer Natalie Du Toit, the first amputee swimmer to qualify for the Olympic Games.
Following the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, the IOC and Deloitte announced an expansion of their Worldwide Olympic Partnership. For the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 through to the Olympic Games Brisbane 2032, Deloitte will take on the role of Games Technology Integration Partner for the Olympic Games, the Paralympic Games, and the Youth Olympic Games. Deloitte will help advance the IOC’s vision of establishing a new integrated technology infrastructure and Games platform to enhance and secure the Olympic and Paralympic Games’ technology operations for the future.
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Through WorldClass, we seek to expand opportunities for 100 million individuals by 2030 by providing access to education and job skills.