Who We Are
Who We Are

IFC is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. By encouraging growth, IFC advances economic development, creates jobs and improves the lives of people.
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Our Leadership

Development Partners

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Accountability

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What We Do
What We Do

IFC advances economic development and improves the lives of people by encouraging the growth of the private sector in developing countries. We achieve this by investing in impactful projects, mobilizing other investors, and sharing expertise.
What We Do Overview
SOLUTIONS

Our products and services
OUR PRIORITIES

Climate Business

Fragile & Conflict Afflicted Situations

Gender

Mobilizing Private Capital

Sustainability
SECTORS & EXPERTISE

Agribusiness & Forestry

Creative Industries

Education

Financial Institutions

Funds

Health

Infrastructure

Manufacturing

Public-Private Partnerships

Tourism, Retail & Property

Trade & Supply Chain Finance

Venture Capital

Working Upstream
Where We Work
Where We Work

As the largest global development institution focused on the private sector, IFC operates in more than 100 countries around the globe. We apply lessons learned in one region to solve problems in another.
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By Region

East Asia & Pacific

Europe

Latin America & the Caribbean

Middle East, Central Asia, Türkiye, Afghanistan, and Pakistan

South Asia

Africa
Our Impact
Our Impact

Our impact improves lives. IFC brings a clear set of advantages to the world’s most challenging markets. Including a history of innovation, a global mandate, and a determination to achieve measurable development impact.
Our Impact Overview
PRINCIPLES & MEASUREMENT

Impact Investing at IFC

Measuring & Monitoring (AIMM)

Evaluation

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Owned by 186 member countries and consistently rated AAA/Aaa. IFC aims to achieve our mission of promoting development by providing debt and equity to the private sector, through a range of benchmark and bespoke products.

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Expertise

Setting ESG Standards & Advancing Sustainable Finance

IFC helps clients understand and manage the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) risks they face.

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Sustainability is critical to companies’ business success. It’s critical, too, for their customers, surrounding communities, broader stakeholders, and the environment.

IFC investment clients across the emerging markets:

91% believe that IFC’s Environment and Social requirements are helpful to their long-term business success
90% believe that IFC’s Corporate Governance requirements are helpful to their long-term business success

At a Glance

In the last decade alone, IFC estimates that investments totaling $4.5 trillion across emerging markets have adhered to IFC’s Performance Standards or principles inspired by them.

Additionally, 35 Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) have adopted the Corporate Governance Development Framework based on IFC’s Corporate Governance Methodology.

IFC is updating its Sustainability Framework to strengthen its approach and better align it with the challenges of today’s dynamic and complex global environment. Learn more.

Our Approach

We partner with industry and other stakeholders to find innovative solutions that open up opportunities for economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable private investment — which, in turn, contribute to jobs and inclusive growth. IFC’s ESG policies, guidelines, and tools are widely adopted as market standards and embedded in operational policies by corporations, investors, financial intermediaries, stock exchanges, regulators, and countries. This helps emerging markets raise their ESG standards and level the playing field.

Setting Standards

For nearly three decades, IFC has been a leader in the ESG space - from pioneering early ESG concepts around safeguards to developing industry-recognized standards widely adopted in project and development finance.

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Advancing Sustainable Solutions

ESG efforts span across topics, industries, and sectors - from climate-risk management to improving gender equality to promoting sustainable finance.

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Providing ESG Advisory Services

ESG advisory efforts guide clients towards good ESG international industry practices, develop market-level demand and capacity, and advise regulators on developing sustainable codes, regulations, and guidance.

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Sharing Knowledge and Expertise

To provide on-going support to our clients as well as share our ESG knowledge and expertise broadly with all interested companies, investors, regulators, and other stakeholders, IFC facilitates several communities of practice and provides a range of resources and tools in open access.

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Accountability & Transparency

We are accountable to our partners, clients and communities as we aim to achieve our development objectives in an environmentally and socially responsible way.

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Partnering for Impact

IFC works with many partners and participates in various networks to help advance ESG and sustainable finance efforts.