Accenture

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions - underpinned by the world's largest delivery network - Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 442,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.

Our partnership with Accenture

Accenture is a long standing supporter of Youth Business International and over the last decade it has been instrumental in helping us increase the size and the impact of our network. Today, it is a multi-faceted collaboration that is helping our network increase the number of young entrepreneurs we support. YBI members are providing budding entrepreneurs with access to business mentoring, training and capital, helping to hone their business skills and build their small enterprises.

Accenture acts as an advisor and partner to YBI, providing both funding and the time and skills of their employees to guide our strategic development. To date, Accenture and Accenture Foundations have awarded YBI and its country members more than US$10 million in both cash and pro bono services. 

As part of its Skills to Succeed corporate citizenship initiative, which aims to equip 3 million people by 2020 with the skills to get a job or build a business, longstanding partner Accenture has provided valuable support to grow and strengthen YBI's global network. Over the last two years alone, we have worked together to skill more than 23,400 young people. A key aspect of our partnership is building the capacity of YBI members around the world in core capabilities including mentoring, training and access to finance.