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.
Empathy: Walking in other people's shoes
- 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.
Accountability: Supporting a results-based culture
- 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.
Teamwork: Pulling together
- 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.
Learning and Innovating: Building on our experience and adding value
- 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.
Transparency: Holding ourselves accountable
- We have clear written evaluative standards and procedures and make them accessible to all.
- We make clear 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.
- Within IFC disclosure policy, we make public our findings.
Balanced Work Environment: Achieving harmony
- 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.
