BankTrack is the international tracking, campaigning and NGO support organisation targeting the operations and investments of private sector banks and their effect on people and the planet. BankTrack is the formal successor of the global network of NGOs that operated under the same name until end 2014.

Even after the financial crisis, private sector banks still represent a crucial source of finance for companies and governments, exerting great influence on the operations of their clients and on society as a whole. Our mission is to promote fundamental changes in the operations of these banks so that they, while conducting their business, contribute to the ecological well being of the planet and to offering a decent life free of poverty for all people. As a prerequisite for this, we want banks to be fully transparent and accountable for their activities to all their stakeholders and to society at large.

Vision

BankTrack aims to help contribute to a private financial sector accountable to society at large, whose operations contribute to creating healthy and just societies and preserve the ecological well being of the planet.

The vision of BankTrack is further elaborated in the Collevecchio Declaration and a number of other publications.

Priorities
•Educate civil society on the activities of private sector banks and its effect on people and the environment;
•Organise NGOs into campaigns and in projects capable of influencing the -activities of- private sector banks;
•Conduct research on projects and policy developments within private sector banks;
•Inform private sector banks on the expectations of global civil society regarding environmentally sound and socially just business practices.

Activities
•Co-ordinate and support international campaigns that prevent harmful impacts of private sector bank operations on the environment and people, and that will effect positive changes within the sector;
•Strengthen civil society's capacity to monitor and influence private sector banks by providing policy analysis and research for NGOs, conduct training of campaigners, and direct support for project affected communities;
•Function as an international clearinghouse for NGOs for information and strategies on private sector banks, and as news source for financial press;
•Be the one stop shop for private sector banks to contact environmental, social and human rights NGOs engaged in project and policy monitoring