Aviva Asia Pacific

Welcome to Aviva Asia Pacific’s review of corporate
responsibility performance in 2010.

Simon Machell,
chief executive, Asia Pacific

“Sustainability is not a destination, it’s about the choices we make today that impact us in the future.”

Simon Machell, chief executive, Asia Pacific

What are the issues?

At Aviva, we’re focused on the issues that matter most to our customers and our business.

Asia is a diverse and dynamic continent undergoing a furious pace of change and rapid economic growth. The region is an exciting marketplace, and we are firmly committed to it.

We operate in nine countries through both joint ventures and wholly owned businesses and our strategic focus is to pursue franchise value growth though organic investment and improved margins.

Bringing corporate responsibility (CR) to life and making it meaningful in each of our businesses is a challenge we relish. To understand the sustainability landscape and better define our issues, in 2010 we engaged external experts CSR Asia to carry out a bespoke piece of research. This work has helped establish our priorities, enabling us to focus on the key issues of responsibility and sustainability.

To build our brand and be trusted by our stakeholders, we need to deal with these issues first. In this report we describe how our global CR approach is coming to life in the region.

Performance

More than 110,000 children impacted through our Street to School initiatives in the region
£1,827,139 of community investment
Aviva Great Wall of Education, collected 950,000 books for underprivileged children
18,396 hours of employee volunteering
Provided access to health care advice and check-ups to more than 6,000 of our employees
‘Talking Talent’ – our talent management framework was launched in all countries, including our new joint venture in Indonesia