sustainability reporting, corporate governance response to disasters over the past 12 months: and investor transparency around ESG issues Healthcare and diagnostic services at Cox’s Bazar ■ Providing technical expertise to the European Refugee Camps, Bangladesh Financial Reporting Advisory Group and the Around 880,000 Rohingya refugees live in challenging European Commission in their preparations for conditions in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the world’s developing sustainability reporting standards, in single largest refugee camp. The Rohingya rely heavily line with international efforts on humanitarian aid and face persistent risks - as seen in the devastating ifre that broke out in March 2021, In addition, we have continued our collaboration with which damaged key health facilities and left many the World Economic Forum International Business homeless. This situation was further exacerbated Council (WEF IBC) to promote the universal set of in July 2021 when thousands of people were made ESG metrics that it published last year. Following the homeless by lfooding after monsoon rains inundated publication of these WEF IBC metrics in September refugee sites in southern Bangladesh. “Reporting has to change, and change 2020, over 90 organisations, including PwC, have fast. It took decades of creative, inclusive publicly committed to reporting against these metrics. Working with a local NGO, Health And Education For All discussion and experience to get to the For the ifrst time, PwC has included a report on its (HAEFA), PwC supported efforts to establish healthcare clear and widely accepted standards we own progress against these metrics in this year’s centres in the Kutupalong and Balukhali camps. These have today for ifnancial reporting. We global annual review. healthcare centres, which were procured through Better need to get to the same level of clarity, Shelter, provide access to quality healthcare services, speciifcity and trust around non-ifnancial We also continue to engage with major global free of cost, to refugees and the host population. In metrics - but within a couple of years, not organisations including the G20, OECD, UN, EU. response to the ifre outbreak in March 2021, PwC is a couple of decades.” And we welcomed the supportive statements made supporting the enhancement of these healthcare units by both the G7 and the G20 on the imperative to to treat burn survivors. Between September 2020 and Bob Moritz, cooperate and collaborate on establishing common June 2021, over 137,700 visits to the unit took place. PwC’s Global Chairman globally accepted non-ifnancial reporting standards. Understanding the need for the expansion of health Stepping up in times of need services, PwC is supporting the setting-up of a pathology lab by HAEFA which will provide services free When catastrophic events, natural disasters and of cost for patients at Balukhali camp and subsidised humanitarian crises occur, our foundations and ifrms services to other health institutions in the camps. Water, around the world do whatever they can to help the sanitation and hygiene facilities for patients and frontline people and communities affected. Here are some healthcare staff have also been supported by PwC. examples of the assistance we have provided in