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Corporate Governance for Sustainability Program (CG4SP) for Development Banks in Asia and the Pacific: A Training Guide

This CG4SP Training Guide Manual was prepared with two objectives. First, it is meant to be a reference tool to provide information and argumentation on the clear link between corporate governance and sustainable development. Second, it is configured as a training guide to encourage ADFIAP member-banks to use it in their own context to further develop the governance-sustainability “framework” that this project aims to achieve.

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Compliance Officership Manual

This Proactive Compliance Officers Manual with the theme, “Expanding the Compliance Monitoring Role to Support the Implementation of Corporate Governance Improvement Programs in Financial Institutions” was prepared with two objectives in mind: (1) to develop a corps of Compliance Officers with a more proactive function of instituting corporate governance improvement programs in ADFIAP member-bans and (b) to encourage them to set-up Compliance Units in their respective institutions to sustain these efforts.

The Manual begins with a broad overview of the traditional mandate of bank compliance officers and why they are best suited to help out in the good governance improvement process within their institutions. A further elaboration ensues on the current available instruments for assessing and improving governance policies and processes, namely, the corporate governance code and the corporate governance ‘scorecard’.

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Corporate Governance Rating

The proposed ADFIAP Corporate Governance Rating System (ACGRS) contained in this handbook is an adaptation and expansion of two rating instruments, namely, the German CG Scorecard of the Deutsche Vereinigung fur Finanzanalyse und Asset Management or DVFA and the one prepared and used by the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) in the Philippines.

Adoption of a corporate governance rating system for Asia-Pacific countries is suitable because their corporate sectors share similar structures and legal framework. In these countries also, governments have early on set up development finance institutions (DFIs) to accelerate their economic development. These DFIs, most of which are members of ADFIAP, are the target users of the ACGRS.

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Scoresheet (Manual version)

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