Accenture Development Partnerships

For more than 20 years, we’ve been bringing Accenture’s skills and experience to help address social, economic and environmental issues.

Impact through innovation

Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) helps with clients—including leading NGOs, private foundations, public donor agencies and the private sector—address society’s most critical challenges.

For more than 20 years, ADP has led diverse work, fostering partnerships, collective impact and social equity to progress the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), improving lives around the world.

By tapping into the best of Accenture’s ecosystem and alliance partners—global reach, extensive capabilities, cross-industry perspectives and a skilled workforce—we can provide end-to-end solutions.

Our Inclusive Business team collaborates with private sector clients to drive sustainable impact at scale, supporting their environmental, social and governance goals.

Impact areas

In fiscal 2024, ADP lead 429 engagements in 33 countries across several impact areas:

Empowering smallholder farmers through technology and sustainable solutions to improve their livelihood and supply chain resilience.

By providing strategic guidance and leveraging cutting-edge technologies and sustainable practices, we help create a better future for the most fragile actors of the agriculture supply chains. We work with our clients to provide education, improve access to markets and create economic opportunities along the value chain.

Tackling climate and environmental challenges sustainably and equitably to transform the world we live in.

Driving sustainable solutions for a resilient future, we develop strategies to address climate change and promote environmental preservation by creating comprehensive strategies to tackle pressing environmental challenges. Our approach is designed to be adaptive and scalable, and to enable our clients to reduce emissions, conserve resources and adopt green technologies.

Unlocking access to affordable electricity, last-mile usage of renewable technology and enabling an equitable energy transition.

Pioneering sustainable energy solutions for a greener future, ADP is working to revolutionize the energy sector by promoting renewable solutions. We provide expert guidance to help organizations transition to sustainable systems, reduce carbon emissions, and enhance resilience, driving the adoption of clean energy practices for economic growth and environmental stewardship.

Partnering to accelerate health and nutrition for all.

ADP leverages its extensive experience and expertise to transform health and nutrition systems, advance health equity, and accelerate global health and nutrition impact for underserved individuals worldwide. By empowering communities and organizations, we seek to reimagine and scale innovative solutions to address global health and nutrition challenges.

Supporting people across their journey through displacement, lawful establishment and integration into host communities.

Enhancing support systems for vulnerable populations, ADP focuses on delivering comprehensive aid for displaced and at-risk communities. We work to make programs are resilient, adaptable, and aligned with international standards, striving to create a world where vulnerable populations receive the support and opportunities they need to rebuild their lives and thrive.

Ensuring access to useful, responsible and sustainable financial products and services.

We aim to broaden financial inclusion for underserved communities, by uniting financial stakeholders and developing models to expand accessible services to more people. Leveraging our expertise in inclusive finance, we help clients design strategies that drive financial empowerment. Through our innovative offerings in this space, we strive to improve the effectiveness of capital deployed to address the SDGs.

Promoting effective skills building, leading to employment and economic growth.

ADP enhances livelihoods by providing sustainable economic opportunities and improving access to quality education worldwide. We offer strategic guidance to help organizations develop vocational training, support skill development and improve educational infrastructure. Leveraging technology and collaboration, we empower individuals for economic independence and educational growth.

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Partnering with Save the Children

Accenture supported Save the Children by creating a new global fundraising mechanism and public campaign aimed at generating income to enable fast, local responses when crisis occur. The Children’s Emergency Fund has now raised more than $300 million, helping more than 40 million children and families across 12 countries.

Private Labels in the Latin American and Caribbean Grocery Market. An Analysis of Local Supply Chains and the inclusion of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, with a Gender Perspective.

Opportunities Are Not Always Labeled

Private label “store brand” goods help Latin American retailers diversify products, offer more choices, and integrate inclusive businesses into their value chains.

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Helping Cavex

We helped Cavex carbon exchange align their value proposition with the needs of their target buyers in the voluntary carbon market. Cavex supports microprojects in Eastern Africa by mobilizing finance through data-backed credits on a technology platform with a digital measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) system. This approach helps ensure that 90% of the funds are directed back to developers of the microprojects. We leveraged Accenture's network to conduct interviews with buyers to better understand their needs and demonstrate the platform to receive real-time feedback. Using these buyer insights alongside market research, we helped the client better tailor its value proposition for target buyers.

Gen AI for the Global Goals

With only 17% of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on track, it is imperative for the private sector to take advantage of technologies like Gen AI to accelerate progress.

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Collaborating with Gavi

Gavi , the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership that helps vaccinate children against deadly and debilitating infectious diseases. Since its inception, Gavi helped vaccinate more than 1.1 billion children in lower-income countries, preventing more than 18.8 million future deaths. Through intensive research and consultations with internal and external disease and modelling experts, we supported Gavi to review and improve its demand forecast for vaccines for tuberculosis, dengue, Shigella and Group B streptococcus.

Our leaders

F. Roger Ford

Managing Director, Global Co-Lead – Accenture Development Partnerships

Louise James

Managing Director, Accenture Development Partnerships

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