Annex 4: Materiality Mapping
Aspect Boundary | Materiality | ||||||||||||
Internal | External | ||||||||||||
Aspect | Significance to Bank’s Operations | Sri Lanka | Bangladesh | Customers | Communities | Suppliers | To the Bank | To the Stakeholder | |||||
Economic | |||||||||||||
1. | Economic performance | High | High | High | |||||||||
2. | Market presence | High | High | High | |||||||||
3. | Indirect economic impacts | Moderate | Moderate | High | |||||||||
4. | Procurement practices | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | |||||||||
Environmental | |||||||||||||
5. | Materials | Moderate | Moderate | Low | |||||||||
6. | Energy | Moderate | High | Moderate | |||||||||
7. | Water | Low | |||||||||||
8. | Biodiversity | Low | |||||||||||
9. | Emissions | Moderate | |||||||||||
10. | Effluents and waste | Moderate | Low | Moderate | |||||||||
11. | Products and services | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | |||||||||
12. | Compliance | Low | |||||||||||
13. | Transport | Low | |||||||||||
14. | Overall | Low | |||||||||||
15. | Supplier environmental assessment | Moderate | Moderate | Low | |||||||||
16. | Environmental grievance mechanisms | Low | |||||||||||
Social: Labour Practices and Decent Work | |||||||||||||
17. | Employment | High | High | High | |||||||||
18. | Labour/management relations | High | High | High | |||||||||
19. | Occupational health and safety | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | |||||||||
20. | Training and education | High | High | High | |||||||||
21. | Diversity and equal opportunity | High | High | High | |||||||||
22. | Equal remuneration for women and men | High | High | High | |||||||||
23. | Supplier assessment for labour practices | High | High | Low | |||||||||
24. | Labour practices grievance mechanisms | High | High | High | |||||||||
Social: Human Rights | |||||||||||||
25. | Investment | Moderate | Moderate | High | |||||||||
26. | Non-discrimination | High | High | High | |||||||||
27. | Freedom of association and collective bargaining | High | High | High | |||||||||
28. | Child labour | High | High | High | |||||||||
29. | Forced or compulsory labour | High | High | High | |||||||||
30. | Security practices | High | High | High | |||||||||
31. | Indigenous rights | Low | |||||||||||
32. | Assessment | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | |||||||||
33. | Supplier human rights assessment | High | High | High | |||||||||
34. | Human rights grievance mechanisms | High | High | High | |||||||||
Social: Society | |||||||||||||
35. | Local communities | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | |||||||||
36. | Anti-corruption | High | High | High | |||||||||
37. | Public policy | Low | |||||||||||
38. | Anti-competitive behaviour | Low | |||||||||||
39. | Compliance | High | High | High | |||||||||
40. | Supplier assessment for impacts on society | Moderate | High | Low | |||||||||
41. | Grievance mechanisms for impacts on society | Low | |||||||||||
Social: Product Responsibility | |||||||||||||
42. | Customer health and safety | Low | |||||||||||
43. | Product and service labelling | High | High | High | |||||||||
44. | Marketing communications | High | High | High | |||||||||
45. | Customer privacy | High | High | High | |||||||||
46. | Compliance | High | High | High | |||||||||
47. | Product portfolio | High | High | Moderate | |||||||||
48. | Audit | High | High | High | |||||||||
49. | Active ownership | Low | |||||||||||
Other Topics | |||||||||||||
50. | Bank’s CSR activities | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | |||||||||
51 | Financial literacy | Moderate | Moderate | Moderate | |||||||||
52 | Risk management | High | High | High | |||||||||
53 | Innovation | High | High | High | |||||||||
54 | Channel migration | High | High | High | |||||||||
55 | Business Continuity | High | High | High |
There were neither material restatement of information provided in earlier reports nor any material change in the scope nor in the aspect boundaries of the report with regard to reporting on sustainability impacts of the Bank.