Sustainable Banking Awards

We often receive questions from TSF participants about sustainability contests and transparency prizes. The information below might be interesting for you:

The FT Sustainable Banking Awards were created by the Financial Times in association with the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, to acknowledge the progress that banks have made in integrating social, environmental and corporate governance objectives into their operations while maximising shareholder value. The goal is to highlight initiatives that work and to reward progress on the journey towards sustainability. It is a best-in-class measure, not an absolute measure. We hope the awards – now in their second year -- will act as a catalyst for further innovation in sustainable banking, helping to encourage best practice and transparency in the way banks approach sustainability and stimulate debate on the role banks can or should play in the area of sustainability.

In case you want more information, you might check the website, and/or contact gj.schuite@facetbv.nl. I can support and coordinate if needed.

Microcredit Summit 2006

Dear Participants,

Soon we will provide you with information about the outcomes of the Social Performance Taskforce Meeting, held in Halifax, Canada, last week Friday and Saturday (10 and 11 Nov. 2006, see photo below). We made some decisions about a list of (22) social performance indicators. As soon as the list is available, we will disseminate this list actively to all participants.

For now, we would like to inform you about some background reading materials and reports, produced for the Summit by a range of organisations and individuals. You can find the overview here: http://www.microcreditsummit.org/papers/allpapers.htm

Will be back soon!!

Geert Jan