Sustainable Development Goals Contributed

Sub-goal

• Goal 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes
• Goal 4.2: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education
• Goal 4.3: By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality-technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university
• Goal 4.4: By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
• Goal 4.5: By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
• Goal 4.6: By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
• Goal 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development

Contributing Activities

• Training and development programs offered to Ziraat Bank’s human resources, support for educational projects raising entrepreneurial awareness for customers and training on financial literacy

Sub-goal

• Goal 5.1: End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
• Goal 5.5: Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
• Goal 5.b: Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women

Contributing Activities

• SME financing and guarantee products, inclusive banking services, sustainable agriculture financing
• Corporate governance practices, human resources management, remuneration policies, equal opportunity implemented at Ziraat Bank

Sub-goal

• Goal 6.1: By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for everyone
• Goal 6.3: By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
• Goal 6.4: By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity
• Goal 6.a: By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programs, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling, and reuse technologies

Contributing Activities

• Project and application revisions in accordance with local government wastewater management directives for new or renovated branch locations.
• Selection of efficient irrigation systems in Ziraat Towers
• Preference for locally adapted plant species to enhance plant diversity in landscaping
• Utilization of condensation water from cooling systems for garden irrigation at Ziraat Towers
• Establishment of a recycling facility for gray water reuse to significantly reduce the reliance on mains water.

Sub-goal

• Goal 7.1: By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
• Goal 7.2: By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
• Goal 7.a: By 2030, enhance international cooperation to facilitate access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology, and promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology

Contributing Activities

• Financing provided for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, efficiency investments in service buildings

Sub-goal

• Goal 8.2: Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labor-intensive sectors
• Goal 8.3: Promote development-oriented policies supporting productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services
• Goal 8.5: By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
• Goal 8.7: Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labor, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labor, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labor in all its forms
• Goal 8.9:  By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
• Goal 8.10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance, and financial services for all

Contributing Activities

• SME financing and guarantee products, inclusive banking services, sustainable agriculture financing
• Training and development programs offered to Ziraat Bank’s human resources, support for educational projects raising entrepreneurial awareness for customers and training on financial literacy
• Financing provided for infrastructure, SMEs and industrial investments, digital banking products and solutions, consumer-friendly financing and savings products, accessible banking
• Corporate governance practices, human resources management, remuneration policies, equal opportunity implemented at Ziraat Bank
• Special loan projects for priority regions in development

Sub-goal

• Goal 9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human wellbeing, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
• Goal 9.2: Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries
• Goal 9.3: Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets
• Goal 9.4: By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
• Goal 9.5: Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending

Contributing Activities

• Financing provided for infrastructure, SMEs and industrial investments, digital banking products and solutions, consumer-friendly financing and savings products, accessible banking
• Financing provided to different sectors based on thematic resources, bilateral and multilateral collaboration endeavors, operational activities, corporate governance practices and reporting endeavors.

Sub-goal

• Goal 10.3: Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard
• Goal 10.4:  Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality
• Goal 10.5:  Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations
• Goal 10.6:  Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions

Contributing Activities

• SME financing and guarantee products, inclusive banking services, sustainable agriculture financing
• Corporate governance practices, human resources management, remuneration policies, equal opportunity implemented at Ziraat Bank

Sub-goal

• Goal 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources
• Goal 12.4: By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
• Goal 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
• Goal 12.6: Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
• Goal 12.8: By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature

Contributing Activities

• SME financing and guarantee products, inclusive banking services, sustainable agriculture financing
• Financing provided for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, efficiency investments in service buildings
• Carbon footprint measurement activities, waste management practices, environmental and social impact management system

Sub-goal

• Goal 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
• Goal 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
• Goal 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

Contributing Activities

• Carbon footprint measurement activities, waste management practices, environmental and social impact management system

Sub-goal

• Goal 1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance

Contributing Activities

• SME financing and guarantee products, inclusive banking services, sustainable agriculture financing
• Special loan projects for priority regions in development

Sub-goal

• Goal 2.5: By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
• Goal 2.a: Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries

Contributing Activities

• SME financing and guarantee products, inclusive banking services, sustainable agriculture financing

Sub-goal

• Goal 11.1: By 2030, ensure access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services and upgrade slums
• Goal 11.2: By 2030, provide access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all, improving road safety, notably by expanding public transport, with special attention to the requirements of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons
• Goal 11.3: By 2030, enhance inclusive and sustainable urbanization and capacity for participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management in all countries
• Goal 11.4: Strengthen endeavors to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage
• Goal 11.6: By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management

Contributing Activities

• Financing provided to the housing sector through national-scale development and investment projects, support for the green economy, contribution to cultural heritage

Sub-goal

• Goal 16.5: Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms
• Goal 16.6: Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels
• Goal 16.7: Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory, and representative decision making at all levels

Contributing Activities

• Corporate governance practices, human resources management, remuneration policies, equal opportunity implemented at Ziraat Bank

Sub-goal

• Goal 17.4: Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
• Goal 17.16: Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
• Goal 17.17: Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships Data, monitoring and accountability

Contributing Activities

• Financing provided to the housing sector through national-scale development and investment projects, support for the green economy, contribution to cultural heritage
• Financing provided to different sectors based on thematic resources, bilateral and multilateral collaboration endeavors, operational activities, corporate governance practices and reporting endeavors.