ANZ

ANZ Corporate Responsibility (CR) Council is a strategic leadership body with Management Board mandate. It performs an oversight and advisory role in achieving the Group's CR agenda and priorities.

The Council meets every quarter and its responsibilities include:

• identifying and monitoring current and emerging corporate responsibility risks and opportunities;
  
  
• reporting and advising ANZ's Management Board on strategies to respond to these risks and opportunities;
  
  
• agreeing ANZ's public corporate responsibility targets and commitments in consultation with the Management Board;
  
  
• integrating corporate responsibility policies and management systems across the business; and
  
  
• reviewing and approving all significant programs and expenditure relevant to our corporate responsibility strategy.
  
  

Progress on strategies to achieve the Group's Corporate Responsibility objectives are reported to the Management Board and ANZ Board Governance Committee on a quarterly basis.

We have identified the following key future challenges for ANZ through the work of our CR Council, regular cross-business forums and ongoing engagement with our stakeholders:

• formalising ANZ's human rights policies and management systems, particularly for our operations outside Australia and New Zealand;
  
  
• extending our corporate responsibility agenda and reporting to include our Asia and Pacific businesses and partnerships;
  
  
• strengthening the integration of social and environmental issues into our corporate lending decisions;
  
  
• ensuring our international employment practices are consistent with standards in Australia and New Zealand;
  
  
• implementing our ANZ Disability Action Plan and assessing our performance against the plan's commitments; and
  
  
• providing our suppliers with better guidance on the social and human rights issues we expect them to be managing.
  
  

• Find out more about Corporate Governance at ANZ