Core Values

IEG is guided by the following core values:

Integrity: Doing the Right Thing

• We are guided by a desire to help IFC achieve better results.
• We do what we say and say what we do.
• We conduct unbiased evaluations and are not swayed by pressure or compromised by self-promotion.
• We are fair with each other and with our clients.
• We take responsibility for our work.
• We inform multiple constituencies.

• We believe that people seek to do the right thing.
• We listen to each other and to our stakeholders to understand and consider other perspectives.
• We seek win-win solutions.
• We balance our needs for information with the burden we impose.

• We aim to maintain the highest standards in the development evaluation community.
• We involve staff, management, external partners, and borrowers in our work.
• We encourage and foster ownership through embedded self-evaluation.

• We seek consensus in decisions.
• We see strength in diversity.
• We acknowledge and respect one another's contributions.
• We trust each other.
• We help each other to grow through formal and informal mentoring.
• We seek the perspectives of those with different areas of expertise.
• We treat people equitably.

• We seek growth for ourselves and others by continuously building on the lessons of experience.
• We support a corporate learning culture by building on IFC successes.
• We seek to translate errors into learning opportunities.
• We encourage new ideas for products and processes and we support those who try them.
• We weigh costs and benefits of innovations before proceeding.
• We enhance our performance through professional training and action learning.
• We assist others in developing and improving their evaluation systems and skills.
• We seek to inform IFC's strategic directions.

• We have clear written evaluative standards and procedures and make them accessible to all.
• We clearly convey the basis for our findings and recommendations.
• We seek review of our methods, evidence and findings, especially from those we evaluate.
• We emphasize dissemination of our work to help others learn.
• We make our findings public, within IEG-IFC'S disclosure policy.

• We balance relevance, cost, timeliness, potential impact, and quality.
• We work hard, have fun, and try to minimize stress.
• We respect the need to have home life as well as work life.