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IFC chooses indicators at the outset that capture a project's main expected development impacts. Achievement against specified performance benchmarks is tracked throughout the project's life and is the basis for rating each performance component and the project’s overall development outcome. More about our evaluation framework. Each IFC industry department has identified a menu of standard, industry-specific indicators that capture the sector’s typical development impacts. In addition, we have some IFC-wide corporate indicators that are mandatory for tracking particular impacts related to environmental and social improvements and corporate governance issues. By standardizing indicators, we are able to compare performance and aggregate developmental reach by industry department and across the Corporation as a whole for a certain time frame. For example, one of our standard reach indicators for our Health and Education Department is the number of patients that have been treated, and we are now able to say that in 2006, IFC-supported health facilities have treated 4 million patients. Reporting on Change over Time As we accumulate data on an annual basis, we are now also able to report on change over time. To keep with our example, 4 million new patients were treated by our client companies in 2006, up from 2.4 million in 2005. In part this reflects a growing portfolio, i.e. a greater number of client companies treated new patients in 2006. For those client companies that were in our portfolio in both years, the number of patients increased by 1.2 million, or 113 percent. More details on DOTS indicators… | SITE TOOLS 
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