NDB Bank was honoured at the Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2022 with the ‘Top Ten Corporate Citizen’ award, at the annual event organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, to recognize sustainable champions of the local corporate sphere.
Winning this award a total of eight times to date, the Bank has been recognised as an organisation that is committed to responsible business practices and sustainable value creation.
For over four decades, NDB Bank has been a catalyst in assisting Sri Lankans around the island towards success. Moving from economic growth to sustainable development, the Bank commenced many long term initiatives to empower future generations. Strategically aligning the Bank’s Sustainability Projects in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Bank has focussed on pivotal areas of National Sustainable Development such as Entrepreneurship, Environment and Education.
Key projects include – supporting the socio-economic empowerment of women, promoting inventors/inventions that support climate action, educating future generations on the importance of conserving our eco-systems and saving our wildlife, reforesting a degraded forest area of 5 hectares, removal of invasive plants at Pitawalapathana, educating NDB staff on home gardening and promoting home gardening through various programmes.
The Bank also embarked on a project to understand and manage the Bank’s climate change impacts. As the first step, the Bank signed an MOU with the verification body ‘Sri Lanka Climate Fund’ (SLCF) to ascertain the Bank’s ‘Carbon Footprint’.
Training was also conducted for key internal stakeholders including the CEO and The Leadership Team, by the GHG Expert - Dr. Lalith Senaweera, Retired Director General and CEO of the Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI) and GHG Verifier - Gayan Madusanka, GHG validation and Verification Division, Sri Lanka Climate Fund (Pvt) Ltd.
Although the Bank’s direct environmental impact is limited; NDB continued to propagate environmental consciousness beyond organisational boundaries to customers and communities by engaging in responsible lending practices.
The Bank has also taken steps to minimise the utilisation of scarce resources, minimise waste, maximise resource usage, and recycle used material.
The Bank continues to contribute to a greener planet through lending to renewable energy generation projects and through its’ paperless drive, with innovative technology and processes.
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