Corporate Responsibility Program

 

As a development organization, environmental and social sustainability are at the core of our mission and our operations.

 

Environmental and social responsibility is essential to sustainable development and to good business. This belief is at the core of the World Bank’s mission and is therefore part of our lending practices as well as our programs and initiatives in our offices and communities. The World Bank is a development cooperative focused on helping our 185 member countries “fight poverty with passion”.     Set up in 2002, the goal of the Corporate Responsibility Program, is to promote greater transparency on the World Bank’s environmental and social performance at both the corporate and the operational levels. A partnership between various departments within the World Bank, the program’s strength has been its role as a facilitator of knowledge-sharing and expertise across technical and administrative units.