Accenture Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive and research capabilities across all industries and business functions, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Accenture has a goal for our Skills to Succeed efforts: By 2015, Skills to Succeed initiatives will equip 250,000 people around the world with the skills to get a job or build a business. Our program will contribute more than US$100 million. Since 1999, the main lever to reach this goal is pro bono missions. In France, each year more than 3500 man days are allocated to pro bono missions. Following 2 pro bono missions, Accenture France is proud to support the <strong>Ashoka</strong> Changemakers’Week. Agence Française de Développement AFD, the Agence Française de Développement, is a public development fi nance institution that has worked to fi ght poverty and support economic growth in developing countries and the French Overseas Provinces for 70 years. AFD executes the French government’s development aid policies. Through offi ces in more than fi fty countries and nine French Overseas Provinces, AFD provides fi nancing and support for projects that improve people’s living conditions, promote economic growth and protect the planet : schooling, maternal healthcare, help for farmers and small business owners, clean water supply, tropical forest preservation, and fi ghting climate change, among other concerns. In 2010, AFD approved more than €6.8 billion for fi nancing aid activities in developing and emerging countries and the French Overseas Provinces. The funds will help 13 million children go to school, improve drinking water access for 33 million people and provide €428 million in microloans benefi ting more than 700,000 people. Energy effi ciency projects fi nanced by AFD in 2010 will save nearly 5 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. www.afd.fr Crédit Agricole et Fondation Grameen The Crédit Agricole, a banking group with a mutualist origin, promotes local economic development by providing fi nancing for local actors and their projects. Its “ Caisses régionales” in France pay particular attention to the needs of social entrepreneurs. At an international level, Credit Agricole SA has moved closer to Professor Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Grameen Bank. In 2008, it launched the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation with an endowment of 50 million euros. The Foundation provides support for microfi nance institutions and social business enterprises in developing countries. Over the last two and a half years the Foundation has assisted 26 institutions or enterprises in 16 countries for a total amount of € 24 million. More generally, Crédit Agricole offers access to its expertise and network to serve social economy projects. These initiatives illustrate the commitment of Crédit Agricole to fi ghting poverty and exclusion. SFR SFR, France’s second largest telecommunications operator, has been investing for a number of years in a Corporate Social Responsibility approach that now forms an integral part of its strategy. SFR is thus committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all, both within the company itself and in society as a whole, and also to enabling as many people as possible to access the brimming potential of the digital revolution. To this end, SFR has forged strong bonds with social entrepreneurs by developing innovative partnership schemes, such as the ‘Telephones for All’ (‘Téléphonie Solidaire’) scheme with Emmaüs Défi , and supporting their objectives, most notably through the SFR Foundation (Fondation SFR), and also by championing young, socially minded entrepreneurs through the SFR Young Social Entrepreneurial Talents (SFR Jeunes Talents Entrepreunariat Social) awards scheme. To fi nd out more, visit www.sfr.com 45
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