Corporate social responsibility report
Introduction
Our financial and social responsibility reports are bundled together in the Annual Review 2015 and
the Annual Report 2015 published by Rabobank Group.This helps create a coherent overview of those
relevant financial and social developments that are essential for Rabobank, its customers and other
stakeholders.
Contents Management report Corporate governance Consolidated financial statements Financial statements Pillar 3
The assurance covers three themes of the 2015 Corporate social
responsibility report. Consequently, we are accounting for our
performance in these areas in this part of the Annual Report:
A. Our contribution to sustainable development
B. Customer focus
C. Empowered employees
The choice of subjects in these sections is based on our
value creation model and a materiality analysis. This analysis
is an inventory of events and subjects that are essential
for Rabobank and our stakeholders. A complete graphic
overview is included in the Annual Review.The subjects in
the materiality analysis are almost all covered in the corporate
social responsibility reporting, with the exception of two new
material topics for 2015: 'financial laws regulations' and
'corporate governance'.These two topics are addressed in the
sections Risk management and Corporate governance in the
Annual Report, but are outside the scope of social responsibility
reporting.This document is based on the sustainability goals
of our Sustainably Successful Together memorandum, which
describes the bank's sustainability agenda.
The contents of Rabobank's Corporate social responsibility
report (with the exception of references to sources and
documents) have been fully verified by KPMG Sustainability
and classified in their assurance report as having a so-called
reasonable level of assurance.This part of the document
contains the sustainability report, the reporting principles and
the auditor's opinion. The Annual Report is published externally,
primarily online on Rabobank.com.The information in the
Annual Report is intended for members, customers, employees,
investors, social welfare organisations, policymakers, academics
and other interested parties.
The 2015 Corporate social responsibility report is based
on the G4 guidelines for sustainability reporting produced
by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in accordance with
the 'Comprehensive'option. In addition, we have included
supplementary reporting criteria from the Financial Services
Sector Supplement (FSSS) published by GRI. Appendix 5 of
this Corporate social responsibility report includes a table with
about the GRI guidelines.
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