Voices for resilience

Keeping momentum around making and measuring impact

Voices of Resilience

This digital report reviews the Swiss Re Foundation’s activities and achievements in 2023. Featuring stories of impact on three continents – including efforts to scale up of affordable health coverage for low-income Ugandans and crop insurance for  smallholder farmers in India – it showcases the diversity of partnerships we leverage to build resilience. The year’s highlights include our realisation of key impact targets and the highest-ever participation by Swiss Re employees in Foundation-organised volunteering.

Message from the Chairman

"Borne of the belief that corporate foundations can uniquely contribute to addressing societal challenges by supporting sustainable solutions in their early stages, the Swiss Re Foundation keeps striving to make low-income communities more resilient", says Jacques de Vaucleroy, Chairman of the Swiss Re Foundation since October 2023.

Read more Message from the Chairman: Annual Report 2023

At a glance 2023

  • 3 000 000

    people benefited from improved resilience through projects approved since 2019​

  • 7 728

    square km of environmentally vulnerable zones protected since 2019​

  • CHF 9 800 000

    total worth of grants approved in 2023​

  • 66

    ongoing projects (receiving grants above CHF 30 000) in 2023​

  • CHF 336 000

    donated by Swiss Re employees to our partners and projects in 2023​

  • 3 327

    Swiss Re employees volunteered with our partners and projects in 2023​

  • 32 050

    total volunteer hours in 2023​

Impact highlights

Key Initiatives Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award 2023

Our 2023 Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award programme supported enterprises with innovative approaches to making healthcare more financially accessible to low-income people.

Impact stories 2023

Closing the agri-insurance gap among India’s smallholder farmers

How can easier access to financial services like insurance increase low-income people’s resilience to climate change?

Learn more Closing the agri-insurance gap among India’s smallholder farmers

A fintech start-up makes healthcare more accessible

How can a digital wallet put basic healthcare in financial reach for millions of underserved people?

Learn more A fintech start-up makes healthcare more accessible

Restoring New York Harbor one oyster at a time

Can a vanished coastal ecosystem in one of the world’s most densely developed cities be brought back to life?

Learn more Restoring New York Harbor one oyster at a time

Organisation Global footprint, focused portfolio

With its own Board of Trustees, the Swiss Re Foundation consists of a lean core team complemented by a global network of Swiss Re advisers and volunteers.

 

​Annual report archives

We maintain a complete digital archive of the Swiss Re Foundation’s annual reports, including a 10th anniversary edition that gives the floor to our partners, from Swiss Re employees, NGOs and social enterprises to academic experts and people whose resilience has been improved by our projects.

Learn more Foundation Report

Voices for resilience

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