Voices for resilience

Igniting the spark of a resilient tomorrow. Together.

Voices of Resilience

In this digital annual report, we provide a bird’s eye view not only of the Swiss Re Foundation’s achievements in 2024 but also of our development as we transition from one strategic cycle to the next. In addition to the year’s highlights, the report presents our high-level impacts in 2022-2024, our sharpened value proposition and our strategic focus for 2025-2027.

We believe the Foundation’s unique opportunity to make the world more resilient lies in its ability to strengthen low-income communities by de-risking entrepreneurial solutions to climate and health challenges, increasing system efficiency and supporting charitable engagement.

Message from the Chairman

"The milestones achieved by the Foundation in 2024 attest to its success in catalysing sustainable, human-centric approaches to building resilience", says Jacques de Vaucleroy, Chairman of the Swiss Re Foundation.

At a glance 2022-2024

1 050 000

people benefited from improved resilience through projects approved from 2022 to 2024
CHF 26 980 000

worth of grants approved
32 360 square km

of environmentally vulnerable zones protected
97

projects supported with grants of at least CHF 30K
49 000 tC02

worth of emissions saved
CHF 1 370 000

donated by Swiss Re employees to Foundation partners and projects
6 845

Swiss Re employees volunteered with Foundation partners and projects
94 604

volunteer hours clocked from 2022 to 2024

Key Initiatives Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award 2024

Our 2024 Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award programme supported enterprises that improve primary healthcare access and quality for low-income people through innovative “brick-and-click” approaches, combining physical points of care with supportive digital tools.

ZimbosAbantu: Primary care clinics on wheels

Intelehealth: Tech-enabled healthcare for all

Cliniva: All-in-one healthcare solution for women

Impact stories 2024

Closing the knowledge gap to better manage climate risk

How can a public library of risk data help low- and middle-income countries adapt to climate change?

Learn more Closing the knowledge gap to better manage climate risk

Disaster-ready from the start

How can anticipatory aid for climate-vulnerable communities mitigate disaster risk?

Learn more Disaster-ready from the start

Soil analysis made smarter

How does an agronomy start-up benefit from Swiss Re experts in its quest for investors and customers?

Learn more A fertile collaboration for less farm runoff and waste

Highlights from strategy cycle 2022-24

Amplifying impact through evidence

Creating a body of evidence that informs our own and others’ resilience-building efforts is now integral to our strategy. We commission independent evaluations of Foundation projects and partners and make the findings publicly available.

Learnings from the Swiss Re Foundation’s Entrepreneurs for Resilience Award portfolio

Independent report sheds light on how Foundation partners improve healthcare access

Organisation Global footprint, focused portfolio

Supported by a global network of Swiss Re advisers and volunteers, the Swiss Re Foundation is run by a lean, increasingly international core team. The election of Andreas Berger, CEO of Swiss Re, to its Board of Trustees in 2024 reaffirmed its anchoring within the Swiss Re Group.

Our Board of Trustees

Swiss Re Foundation Team

Fact Sheet

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 system efficiencies and people whose resilience has been improved by our projects.