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2009 Corporate Responsibility Goals - Corporate Responsibility

2009 Corporate Responsibility Goals

Each year ANZ sets specific and measurable goals for key elements of our corporate responsibility agenda. These goals are tracked throughout the year and progress is reported to our Corporate Responsibility (CR) Council, Management Board and ANZ Board on a regular basis. We also report progress to our stakeholders through our CR update and interim and annual CR Reports.

Our goals for 2009 are aligned to three core themes:

Goal Global Australia New Zealand Asia Pacific
Conduct a review of ANZ's approach to responsible retail lending, including the way we offer and market retail credit, to ensure consistency with the principles of responsible money management and use of credit.   Yes    
Resolve 90% of all customer complaints within five working days and improve customer satisfaction with our complaint resolution processes.   Yes    
Upgrade Internet Banking security and introduce new online products to assist customers in more effective managing their money.   Yes    
Ensure consistent social and environmental assessment processes across all client evaluation and credit approval systems in our institutional business. Yes      
Integrate social and environmental policy and equator principles requirements into Institutional wholesale credit training. Yes      
Implement our new Group Code of Conduct and Ethics, including 100% employee completion of our Code of Conduct and Ethics Declaration training course and agreement with the Code. Yes      
Implement an employee values and ethics training program and ensure it is completed by 100% of our senior executives, globally. Yes      
Reduce our LTIFR by a further 10% in Australia and New Zealand and continue the implementation of our global health and safety program. Yes      
Implement a training program on economically, socially and environmentally responsible sourcing decisions and ensure completion by 70% of category spend managers across ANZ's global operations. Yes      
Develop an audit process to track supplier compliance with ANZ sustainability requirements and pilot the process with a high risk supplier. Yes      
Develop sustainability sourcing guidelines for six new ANZ spend categories.   Yes    
Develop two-year environmental footprint targets for 2010 to 2011.   Yes Yes  
Goal Global Australia New Zealand Asia Pacific
Implement a strengthened Group Corporate Responsibility Charter. Yes      
Implement a Group-wide human rights policy and management system. Yes      
Create a new Group-wide corporate community investment fund. Yes      
Implement new products and services to assist institutional clients with the transition to a lower carbon economy. Yes      
Complete the pilot of our mobile commerce product "WING" in Cambodia and investigate opportunities to extend it to other markets in our region.       Yes
Implement a pilot a model for community investment in Asia Pacific.       Yes
Review and recommend options to achieve our goal to become carbon neutral in Australia and New Zealand in 2009.   Yes Yes  
Improve our retail customer satisfaction in Australia and New Zealand.   Yes Yes  
Maintain our position as the number one lead institutional bank for Australia and New Zealand.   Yes Yes  
Implement a new approach to understanding and responding to employee feedback and achieve employee engagement levels above industry benchmarks. Yes      

Achieve our two-year environmental footprint reduction targets by September 30th 2009 for:

  • 5% reduction in electricity per FTE
  • 5% reduction in water per FTE
  • 10% reduction in waste per FTE
  • 10% reduction in paper per FTE.
  Yes    
Goal Global Australia New Zealand Asia Pacific
Implement new initiatives to improve the financial inclusion of women, older customers, indigenous Australians, people from different cultural backgrounds and people with disability.   Yes Yes  
Achieve a 2-3% minimum increase in women in management positions in all major geographies. Yes      
Employ an additional 35 people with disability globally including 30 people in Australia. Yes      
Employ an additional 100 indigenous trainees.   Yes    
Increase the reach and impact of our flagship financial literacy and inclusions programs.   Yes Yes  
Enable our partners to enrol a further 1,500 people in Saver Plus and conduct behavioural research into the success of the program.   Yes    
Reach 30,000 people with our MoneyMinded financial education workshops.   Yes Yes  
Together with our community partners, achieve a further 300 participants in our Progress Loans program and complete a full evaluation of the pilot program.   Yes    
Conduct the second round of financial literacy research in New Zealand.     Yes  

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