The Institut Català de Finances has signed off its first Equality Plan designed to continue driving equal opportunities between women and men in the workplace in line with the principles of the Global Compact and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out in the United Nations Agenda 2030.
The Plan will make it possible to transform and improve the organisation by enhancing the gender perspective and equal opportunities through implementing a range of initiatives and strategies. The challenge is to further foster the prerequisites for both women and men to freely exercise their rights, unhampered by stereotypes and with no gender-based privileges or hurdles.
The measures agreed in the Plan ramp up the ICF’s commitment in this area. Indeed, Article 4 in the institution’s Code of Conduct includes a number of principles addressing non-discrimination, work-life balance and repudiation of any form of harassment.
Under the Plan several measures have been drawn up in issues such as equality, work-life balance, communication and in-house career development. In terms of equality, the ICF has a 50/50 Management Committee while women hold 53% of managerial and decision-making positions. The new ICF Equality Plan confirms its engagement with this issue.
The action plan bolsters the institution’s policy in this field by building on a robust strategy underpinned by equal opportunity principles. The ICF will further enhance this approach by rolling out new training and awareness-raising campaigns specifically about gender equality and seeking to ensure that it uses a gender-neutral communication model. Likewise, it will give even greater prominence to the role of women in finance while stepping up its policy of equal and fair pay devoid of gender-based discrimination.
The Equality Plan envisages setting up an Equality Committee to monitor and evaluate the results achieved in order to drive continuous improvement.
About the ICF
The Institut Català de Finances is Catalonia’s public financial institution. Its main mission is to foster funding for the business community in Catalonia in order to support the growth, innovation and sustainability of the Catalan economy. The ICF acts as a complement to the private sector by offering a wide range of financing solutions focusing on loans, guarantees and venture capital. Since 2014 it has been a member of the European Association of Public Banks (EAPB), which brings together most of the public banks and financial institutions operating in Europe.
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