Amãna Bank’s partnership with the United Nations Global Compact also signifies an important landmark in the Bank’s journey towards sustainability. The UN Global Compact (UNGC) is the largest corporate sustainability initiative that calls on global corporations to align their strategies and operations with ten universally accepted principles on Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.
Being a member of the UNGC partner network paves the way for Amãna Bank to advance its corporate sustainability journey in many ways. Firstly by aligning with the UNGC’s core principles across the business and operations and secondly by engaging in collaborative CSR projects that contribute towards the broader development goals of the United Nations, particularly the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).
The opportunity for the Bank to partner with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), during the year, in addressing the immediate food and medical needs of the most vulnerable segments of the country, is an apt example of the benefits reaped from the UNGC partnership. Bank’s contribution towards the SDGs are given below.
GOAL 1: No Poverty 
The Bank’s Gold Certificate Financing, which promotes the concept of Social Financing for the unbanked and under-banked, creating convenient credit at grass root level grew by 60% providing assistance to 10,600 customers.
GOAL NO. 3 – GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
- Partnered with UNDP’s Emergency Relief programme which addressed the severe shortage medicine owing to the socioeconomic crisis.
- Invited Expatriate customers to donate to the above
- Donated essential medicine to the Puttalam Base Hospital
GOAL 4: Quality Education 
- Focused on increasing Financial Literacy through its Knowledge Marketing initiatives to create awareness on the Bank’s business model.
- 16 customer awareness programmes were carried out while plans are afoot to launch its very own digital knowledge academy.
GOAL 5: Gender Equality 
- Continued to serve female customers with exclusive banking units for ladies
- Promoted its ‘Women Entrepreneur Financing’ scheme to assist women with entrepreneurial ambitions to support their dreams in bringing financial prosperity to their family’s well-being.
- Higher female workforce at branches and across functional departments.
- Continued to maintain female presence in the Bank’s senior management team.
GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy 
- Promote the use of green energy by encouraging and financing customers to invest in renewable energy projects thereby reducing dependency on fossil fuels
- 16,962 MWh of renewable energy generated during 2022 through financing of Mini Hydo Power Plants. Resultant reduction of CO2 emission - 12,040 Mt
- 17,905 MWh of renewable energy generated through financing of Bio Mass Power Plants using sustainably grown fuel wood (Gliricida). Resultant reduction of CO2 emission - 12,710 Mt
- 1,761 MWh of renewable energy generated through offering solar financing for large scale projects. Resultant reduction of CO2 emission - 1,250 Mt
- 213 solar financing facilities were approved for households to switch to solar energy
GOAL NO. 9 INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE 
- Supported SMEs worst hit by the economic challenges
- Offered moratorium solutions and other concessions to affected customers
- The Bank also continued its contribution towards key areas of economic growth such as maritime and infrastructure development.
GOAL 10: Reduce Inequalities 
Through OrphanCare the Bank continued to provide maturing orphans an equal footing as they enter adult life. By December 2022, OrphanCare had enrolled over 3100 orphans from across 90 orphanages and carried out 13 rounds of account disbursements. OrphanCare has also undertaken qualitative support initiatives to those orphans reaching 18 years of age
GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production 
- The Bank encourages businesses as well as its operations to adopt responsible consumption
- Facilitated and encouraged customers to switch from traditional banking methods to modern banking ways which reduces wastage of resources by promoting its digital solutions
- Continued drive amongst employees to foster a culture of responsible consumptions within their departments which has resulted in many adapting ‘green’ measures and initiatives towards reducing, reusing and recycling.
GOAL 14: Life Below Water 
- 918 Mt of fish were sustainably harvested by providing financing solutions to the country’s first ever revolutionary sustainableaquaculture fish farm thereby assisting to manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems.
- 250 Mt of items of plastic items were sustainably produced by re-using waste plastic as raw material, thereby avoiding a similar amount of plastic waste entering our oceans.
