Corporate social responsibility

Responsibility underpins the way the Bank acts: responsibility to its shareholder Member States, of course, and, more widely, responsibility to all its stakeholders.

 

The Corporate Social Responsibility Report responds to a priority objective: to be accountable to the general public for the CEB’s overall contribution to socially and environmentally sustainable development. It is in a way the raison d’être of IFIs, in accordance with their respective specific characteristics, to reconcile market efficiency and the collective interest in order to keep the promise of more viable and equitable globalisation: a requirement rendered all the more acute in view of the crisis.

 

 

Faithful to the Institution’s own specific mandate, the report underlines the constant quest for a fair balance between the CEB’s social mission and the banking nature of its activity. The report also defines itself as a further commitment to transparency as much as a communication and information tool. As such, it affords complementary insight to the visibility provided by the Annual Report (Report of the Governor) by defining the logic underpinning the Bank’s action over the long term.

 

In summary, the document is structured into three successive parts: