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The events of 2022 made us reconsider our initiatives and focus on the most urgent issues of support for Ukraine. In these challenging times, Deloitte strives to be useful and help our state and fellow citizens.
In our daily activities, we help our clients counter various challenges: from advisory support in the search for operational solutions to a large-scale business transformation. The synergy of international experience and innovative approaches in work, local expertise, gained knowledge and practical skills, as well as unique features of the Ukrainian economy make up a basis for a long-term cooperation with business environment in various aspects. We expand our cooperation horizons by building various platforms, maintaining thought leadership.
Over the years of Deloitte’s presence in Ukraine, thought leadership has turned from a smart phrase to the opportunity for continuous development and improvement, a search for uncommon insights and patterns. The key area of Deloitte thought leadership is conducting surveys to help businesses make informed management decisions.
Facilitation of educational projects development is a priority of our corporate responsibility and sustainable development strategy. Our company sponsors various educational initiatives, and our experts gladly share their knowledge to help others improve professionally. Within the Deloitte WorldClass global initiative, we increase capabilities in cooperation with educational institutions and educators, civil and international organizations.
Our people
The reporting period was marked by many changes. Still, Deloitte’s commitment to taking care of its employees and opening new opportunities for them remains unchanged and steady going.
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Support during the war
One of the first decisions made after the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion was allocating USD 100,000 from the company's funds for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. In addition, the partners and employees of the Ukrainian office collected over UAH 1.5 million of personal funds to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the first week of the war alone. Since then, similar fundraising campaigns have been held on a regular basis.
We engage Deloitte network offices to support and advocate Ukraine in the world. The large Deloitte family showed its solidarity by making donations and providing free services to global and local NGOs helping Ukrainians. In total, the network member firms, employees, and corporate funds of Deloitte from different countries have collected and sent over USD 7,000,000 (as of November 2022, when this Report was prepared) to the accounts of official initiatives helping Ukraine. You can find out more about Deloitte network support to Ukraine from Deloitte Global Impact Report 2022.
In addition to financial support, Deloitte Ukraine invests its expertise and time of its employees in the projects that help the state and various organizations to manage processes more efficiently during the war. For example, Deloitte Ukraine renders free of charge audit services for UNITED24, a fundraising initiative of the President of Ukraine . Our specialists quarterly review the consolidated financial statements of the ministries responsible for the efficient use of donations.
Another example of support is Deloitte’s cooperation with Medychni zakupivli Ukraiiny (Medical Procurement of Ukraine), a state-owned enterprise, in the form of assistance with functional implementation of the SAP Ariba global procurement platform. This technological solution not only makes procurement processes more efficient, but also gives the enterprise access to a wide range of international suppliers and allows selecting partners with the most relevant goods and prices, thus spending less time on procurement process. The implementation of this tool already helps the enterprise to successfully fulfil the needs for procurement of goods, including essential deficit items.
In addition, our employees cooperated with the representatives of not-for-profit sector who provided voluntary support to military units, medical establishments, and local self-government bodies in the communities facing urgent war-related challenges, to help them launch the logistics and supply processes and render their work as efficient as possible, among other means, by automation tools.
More about aid to Ukraine during the war – in full version of our Report.
Cities and local communities' development
We strive to change the country not only through the results of our cooperation with clients but also in a direct way – by supporting public sector, by helping cities, and by investing into educational and other initiatives and forms of cooperation.
Since the beginning of decentralization reform, Deloitte Ukraine has been actively helping to solve municipal and regional development issues together with donor organizations, businesses, and local self-government bodies. We also engage the experts of our international network who have advanced experience in Smart City and digital transformation projects.
Deloitte participates in the development of Digital Transformation Index for territorial communities. The project aims at creating a tool for an objective assessment of digitalization status of territorial communities to measure their readiness, awareness, and deployment of digital solutions in the large and small communities for the purposes of further monitoring the fulfillment of objectives set by the Ministry of Digital Transformation. To date, within the project, we managed not only to develop this tool but also to test it in five territorial communities of different types. Currently, we plan to pilot Index measurement, with further scaling up throughout Ukraine.
In the reporting period, at the invitation of MHP company, we joined the development project of Ladyzhyn town in Vinnytsia region. The project was aimed at elaborating the vision of the town`s development as an attractive place for living, as well as determining the role of the company in this process.
Deloitte experts prepared their estimates regarding urban development in key areas, assumptions of population dynamics over ten years, highlighted the factors important for the project implementation, and the options of the company’s involvement. The project contributed to the establishment of stable long-term relations between the company and the local community, and helped define the development prospects of Ladyzhyn.
More examples of cities and local communities' development projects can be found in the full version of our Report.
Educational programs
Facilitation of educational projects development is a priority of our corporate responsibility and sustainable development strategy. The company sponsors various educational initiatives, and our experts gladly share their knowledge to help others improve professionally. Within the Deloitte WorldClass global initiative, we increase capabilities in cooperation with educational institutions and educators, civil and international organizations.
One of the examples of creating such opportunities is Work & Study dual education program, which we launched three years ago in partnership with Kyiv National University of Economics. The purpose of the project is to foster and train junior auditors of a new format and to decrease the gap between theoretical knowledge taught at universities and its practical application.
The first year, students spent 15% of academic hours with the employer, the second year – 33%, and the third year, the majority of students opted for shifting to full-time. This is another manifestation of the youth’s commitment to working in our company.
Those students who participate in the program excel professionally in a shorter time. Apart from work, participants study extensively and have the opportunity to obtain professional certificates. Bachelor graduates will be able to compete for middle-grade positions due to instructive practical experience obtained during four years of studying. This way Deloitte Ukraine contributes to educational transformation and supports the youth. At the same time, we promote training of highly qualified staff tailored to business needs.
More examples of educational programs can be found in the full version of our Report.