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OVERVIEW

ACCENTURE INDIA

CORPORATE

CITIZENSHIP

THE FIVE KEY PILLARS OF OUR GLOBAL CORPORATE

CITIZENSHIP STRATEGY

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Ethics & Governance

Skills to Succeed

EnvironmentOur

People

Supplier

Chain

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REPORTING

Public Reporting :Our Global Annual Corporate Citizenship Report, details the impact we make every year against our goals across each of

the five pillars. Our Environmental Responsibility Policy was established in 2007 and is reviewed annually.

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Responsibility and management of Corporate Citizenship Performance globally:

Chairman

and CEO

Accenture

Businesses

Dedicated subcommittee of our Global Management Committee

(senior leaders from multiple corporate functions and geographies )

meets one to three times each year to consider policy

Corporate Citizenship Council (senior

executives from multiple disciplines and

geographies)

implements policies and supporting

programs

Environment Steering Group

(leaders from across Accenture)

determines our processes for providing

guidance around carbon-emissions

disclosure.

Guides

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/company-corporate-citizenship?c=glb_corcitify17acc_10000016&n=otc_0317

https://www.accenture.com/t20170331T092206__w__/us-en/_acnmedia/PDF-48/Accenture-Environmental-Policy-2017.pdf#zoom=50

By the end of fiscal 2020, together with our strategic partners, Accenture globally we will pursue the following three goals…

SKILLS TO SUCCEED (S2S) IS THE KEY THEME OF

CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP


Demand-led Skilling

Equip more than 3 million

people with the skills to get a

job or build a business

Employment &

Entrepreneurship

Outcomes

Increase our focus on the

successful transition from skill-

building programs to

sustainable jobs and

businesses, and improve our

collective ability to measure

and report on these outcomes

Collaboration for

Durable, Systemic

Change

Bring together organizations

across sectors to create large-

scale, lasting solutions aimed

at closing global employment

gaps


EMPOWERING INDIA THROUGH SKILLS TO SUCCEED

24 states

214 districts

14 credible partners

Direct Livelihoods

• Direct support by providing entrepreneurship training as well as building a value chain thus increasing incomes for the target segment within their local contexts

• Demographic segments : Rural , women groups

Entrepreneurship training

• Helping potential entrepreneurs translate their ideas into micro-enterprises. Training in business planning and financial management

• Demographic segments: Semi urban/Rural, 16-25 years


S2S focus areas : Employability, Entrepreneurship and Direct Livelihoods

SKILLS TO SUCCEED AT ACCENTURE IN INDIA

Priority focus: Employability training

• Build skills in high growth industry verticals with

high potential for employment - Post a market

scan we chose four industries: IT/BPO,

Construction, Hospitality and Retail.

• Credible NGO partners with training expertise to

be the lead NGO for each industry vertical,

responsible for transferring expertise in content

and assessments through a “Train the Trainer”

model to other NGO partners in the ecosystem

• Accenture provides funding, content, technology

solutions, guest lectures, placement and capacity

building support

• Demographic segments: Youth, 16-25 years,

10th/12th students from low income homes.

Special focus on PwD, girls.BPO – Dr. Reddy’s Foundation

Retail – Quest Alliance

Hospitality –Don Bosco Tech

Construction Labournet

Our partners NGO

Governance and reporting in India:

CSR Committee

(3 Directors)Reports to

Accenture Solutions Private Limited (ASOL) board

Public Reporting : The Annual Accenture Solutions Private Limited CSR Disclosure Directors Report is publicly published every year.

https://www.accenture.com/t20161215T110332__w__/in-en/_acnmedia/Accenture/Conversion-Assets/DotCom/Documents/Local/in-en/PDF-1/Accenture-Solutions-Private-Limited-CSR-Policy-2016.pdf

WHAT DIFFERENTIATES ACCENTURE

INDIA'S CSR PROGRAM?

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Single CSR Initiative - Skills to

Succeed

Partnerships with the established players helped to scale-up quickly and drive sustained impact outcomes

The impact of the cash grant

programs are enhanced with

employee engagement

Capacity building of the non-profit ecosystem with Pro-bono engagements and Employee Volunteering

Compliance to letter and spirit of

the CSR mandate

Clear separation of CSR and what is ‘business as usual’

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Employability

Beneficiary Group: Unemployed youth in cities

(primarily around Accenture office locations)

Key Trades: IT/BPO, hospitality

and facilities management, retail,

construction

Partnerships with Dr. Reddy’s

foundation, Don Bosco, Quest

Alliance, Anudip etc.

SKILLS TO SUCCEED IMPACT IS MEASURED THROUGH

BENEFICIARIES EITHER GETTING EMPLOYMENT OR

STARTING THEIR OWN BUSINESS

Entrepreneurship

Beneficiary Group: Rural population (primary

focus on women)

Key Trades: Micro-enterprise

Partnerships with Mann Deshi

(business school for rural women)

and SEWA (Rehabilitating women

waste pickers); READ (Rural

livelihoods)

Example Initiative:

Accenture–Anudip Foundation

Digital Inclusion for Young

Aspirants Program

Metiabruz, Kolkata

Example Initiative:

Accenture-READ India

Rural community development

center

Bagepalli, Karnataka

Environment

Carbon footprint reduction in

internal operations

Promoting awareness and

implementing Eco friendly

office practices (Reduce,

Reuse, Recycle).

Giving of Skills

Pro bono projects provide

world class business and

technology expertise to non-

profit partners to build

organizational capacity to

scale impact.

Giving of Money

The cash grant programs

drive the Skills to Succeed

Impact outcomes. Employee

giving program supports local

city-based NGOs.

Giving of Time

Employees volunteer their

time to enhance the impact of

our programs and make a

difference to end

beneficiaries.

OUR CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP EFFORTS ARE DELIVERED

THROUGH A MIX OF CHANNELS


Opportunities to partner in our Corporate citizenship program

1. Providing employment

opportunities to our

S2S beneficiaries

2. Support entrepreneurship

through purchase of products

Co-volunteeringKnowledge

partnerships 1 2 3 Co-funding4

1. CO-FUNDING


Examples of opportunities for co-funding in Corporate Citizenship

initiatives

An example of entrepreneurship support through purchase of products

SEWA Gitanjali – NGO Partner

Procuring office stationery produced by former women waste-pickers who have been skilled to make high quality notepads etc.

from recycled paper

Examples of Co-funding Rural Community Development Initiatives

Holistic Rural community development at our Rural BPO location near Bangalore; Options to fund programs related to

integrated development of children.

READ India works on skill development programs for women focusing on livelihood skills such as sewing/stitching and local

handicraft products


2. CO-VOLUNTEERING

SOME INITIATIVES UNDERTAKEN WITH CLIENT TEAMS IN 2016

More than 100+ employees participated in various activities anchored during weekends by a team of dedicated volunteers.

Other people engagement activities include raising funds, donation drives for Kashmir floods, collecting warm clothes for

housekeeping staff during winter.

Special eco-watch activities are conducted to create awareness to adopt and promote adoption of eco-smart work practices.

Global Industrial MNC

- Delhi

More than 500+ employees from a project conducted two big fund raising drives which in turn helped support

children/students.Global Petrochemical

Major - Bangalore

200 + employees of a team started a campaign - Bring your own bottles. This aims The aim was to save water. They also

volunteer during weekends with our local nonprofit partners – Chord which rehabilitates children and Devnar which imparts

computer education to the blind.

IT MNC -

Hyderabad

A team of 300+ is engaged in teaching students on weekends for a year.Global Automobile

MNC - Hyderabad

Co-creation of new job training or entrepreneurship programs to better outcomes and impact

3. Knowledge partnership on content


Other Urban Employability Opportunities

Persons with Disabilities

Sector Partner

Varied sectors

The Jobability Portal is a one-stop job portal to connect employers and

PWD (with different skill sets) who are looking for a job

Leonard Cheshire Disability

(A Global Grant partner of Accenture)

BPO training for Persons with Disabilities Dr. Reddy’s Foundation

Sector Partner

BPO Anudip Foundation, DRF

Retail, ITeS, Digital Quest Alliance, Aid-et-Action

Sector Partner

Construction, Migrant workforce Sambhav Foundation

Hospitality Don Bosco Tech

4. PROVIDING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

TO OUR S2S BENEFICIARIES

Jugri Bai, ChhattisgarhWhen her father passed away, the onus of sustaining the family of five fell solely on Jugri’s mother, a daily wage laborer. Jugri found an anchor in Dr. Reddy’s Foundation’s Livelihood Advancement Business School center in her city where she completed the Customer Relations & Sales/Retail skills training course. Today, Jugri is working as a customer sales associate at a renowned fashion brand store in Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh and is able to contribute to the family’s income.

Beneficiary Testimonial


INCLUSIVE SKILLING PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH, WOMEN

AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PwD) ENABLE THEM

TO CREATE ENVIRONMENTS THAT NURTURE THEIR

SKILLS AND PROGRESS THEIR LIVELIHOODS IN URBAN

AREAS.

“When I dropped out of college I felt pretty

hopeless. But DB Tech helped me get a

job and support my family. Today, I look

forward to making a career in the

hospitality industry.”

Ranjitha,

Andhra Pradesh

“The Counselling session at LABS helped

give my life a new direction. I am now

much more confident of myself and am

happy that I can support my family and

chase my dreams as well.”

“The Learning Resource Centre helped

me realize my potential and acquire the

skills and training I needed to get a job.

Through the training I also learned about

interview preparation, communications

skills, workplace culture and personal

development.”

Ruksana Begum,

Chhattisgarh

Arasu Mari,

Tamil Nadu


INCLUSIVE SKILLING PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH, WOMEN

AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (PwD) ENABLE THEM

TO CREATE ENVIRONMENTS THAT NURTURE THEIR

SKILLS AND PROGRESS THEIR LIVELIHOODS IN RURAL

INDIA.

80 year old READ Center user,

Taufa Devi, is the oldest yet most

active Skills to Succeed

participant. She is a Master trainer

for Basketary Skills in Rajasthan.

The Unique ‘Green Skilling’

Program trains PwDs to work with

flower discards to make safe holi,

rangoli and cloth dye colors –

Delhi/Varanasi, Bangalore

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION


2015 Golden Peacock

Award for CSR - selected

among 391 nominated

organizations.

Only global MNC to be

featured by IICA as a

exemplary CSR case study

at BSE event in 2016.

Panel Discussions and

presentations with Deshpande

Foundation (IIMB), IICA and

Sattva (BSE), NHRD,

Workability Asia.

Spring board Consulting:

“Asia Pacific Disability

Matters Award 2014”

External media

coverage of S2S program

in reputed magazines and

newspapers

Training session for Coal

India CSR team

at IICA, Manesar.

Winning the ‘Golden Peacock CSR Award

Rural Community Centre Launch @ Bagepalli Leveraging

our Rural BPO footprint to expand S2S initiatives

▪ About Accenture

▪ Corporate Citizenship at Accenture

▪ Skills to Succeed – India

▪ Corporate Citizenship at Accenture in India – Fiscal 2015 review

▪ Jobability Portal (For hiring persons with disabilities)

REFERENCE LINKS


https://www.accenture.com/in-en/company

https://www.accenture.com/in-en/careers/your-future-corporate-citizenship

https://www.accenture.com/in-en/company-citizenship-skills-to-succeed

https://www.accenture.com/t20160302T093529__w__/in-en/_acnmedia/Accenture/Conversion-Assets/DotCom/Documents/Local/in-en/PDF-1/Accenture-CC-Brochure Final_for-web.pdf

http://www.jobability.org/


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