Supporting the vitality of communities Our output and impact Support for vital communities is a central theme within Rabobank's sustainability programme. With a focus on local issues, we aim to strengthen economic and social vitality by supporting the business success of local collective initiatives in the countries where we operate. In the Netherlands, these issues include sustainability, economic vitality, and ensuring quality in healthcare and housing. In developing countries, we focus on establishing and professionalising farming organisations, and providing access to the local financial infrastructure. To accomplish these goals, Rabobank supplies human resources, knowledge, networks, facilities and financial services. In addition, we invest 3% of our profits in not-for-profit local social projects each year. To ensure that local communities continue to see the combined benefit of increasing self-sufficiency, greater collaboration and stronger economic and social vitality, Rabobank has developed a number of KPIs to identify specific objectives that contribute to these ambitions and allow us to measure our results. For more information, see Appendix 2. Contents Foreword Management report Corporate governance Consolidated Financial Statements Company Financial Statements Pillar 3 As a global, customer-focused, cooperative and socially responsible bank, Rabobank supports many local initiatives and organisations. In 2016, we did this by, among other things, making contributions to social projects of EUR 72.8 million, and many dedicated employee hours in the Netherlands and abroad. The contributions add up to 3.6% of our net profit. In addition, we devoted extra attention to supporting local civil cooperatives, with the ambition of creating local sustainable energy or of supporting fibreoptic cooperative initiatives. Rabobank also launched a cooperative toolkit and held workshops to train employees in better servicing these initiatives. Meaningful cooperative In 2016, we worked on the 'Meaningful cooperative' strategic pillar of the Strategic Framework 2016-2020. One of the steps taken to support our local Rabobank colleagues' commitment to the theme of new cooperatives is the development of the Cooperative Planner - a publication aimed at citizens and entrepreneurs - and associated workshops for colleagues in local Rabobanks. In the second half of 2016, Rabobank held eight workshops and trained 105 colleagues from 81 local Rabobanks. The workshops offer insights into the assistance of the initiatives, in order to help them develop into fully fledged cooperatives in areas such as energy, healthcare and fibreoptic internet. MiddenBrabantGlas An example of such an initiative is MiddenBrabantGlas. Central Brabant is home to an initiative to provide residents in remote areas with fibreoptic internet connections, giving participants faster and more stable internet. The initiative is founded on cooperative principles: the members join the initiative and share responsibility for funding the project. The area has approximately 4,000 potential connections and promoters are seeking 75% participation from businesses and households. Rabobank Hart van Brabant played a facilitating role in the preparations for the project by engaging in discussions regarding financing at an early stage. The bank has offered committed funding to supplement member capital. Thanks to the efforts of promoters and the bank, the installation begins 14 January 2017. Investing in vital communities in the Netherlands We consider our investments in vital communities a distinctive part of our identity. It demonstrates that Rabobank does more than just provide banking services. 87 Our output and impact: supporting the vitality of communities

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