December 17, 2020/NSE

Introduction

Giving You More

Access Bank’s 2019 Sustainability Report is the twelfth consecutive report of the Bank’s business activities and progress on material topics that are important to our stakeholders as they relate to the environment and the society.

This report shows our continuous commitment and drive towards achieving sustainability. In this regard, it is a compendium of our efforts between January and December 2019.

The report is prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. It also integrates the reporting requirements of other sustainability standards like the UNGC, the Equator Principles and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), using data from the reporting year.

Using these standards, this report discusses topics that are material to the Bank’s stakeholders and intersect the business goals as presented in the Materiality Matrix. It is a comprehensive report of our non-financial activities for the calendar year 2019, and in some cases, the first half of 2020.

It is complementary to the Annual Financial Report, 2019. Any other details from other years are stated clearly. Following the feedback from the 2018 report, we have reviewed the data presented in this report to highlight major aspects of our performance indicators.

This report communicates various improvements to our different activities. For instance, we included HIV testing and counseling services to the 2019 and 2020 Access Bank Lagos City marathons. The report provides an overview of our operations across our current locations, our business model and how we ensure that sustainability is embedded into every aspect of what we do.

It highlights our communication process with our various stakeholders and how we have, together, developed solutions that are not only mutually beneficial, but have also helped us to find better ways to do business, satisfy our people and protect the environment.

The report details our memberships in various organisations and partnerships with like-minded businesses and organisations with whom we have formed stronger bonds and are able to take on bigger challenges. With these memberships, we are part of a force for change in our world today. This report is an opportunity for us to further evaluate our sustainability journey thus far and bring our esteemed stakeholders up to speed on the progress we have made on this journey.

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