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The following values describe behaviours we consider important for all Cambodian and expatriate staff who represent and work for ICC:
PEOPLE CENTREDNESS & EQUALITY
We are people-centred in a holistic way and value and respect each person without making unjust distinctions based on status, religion, political affiliation, gender and ethnicity.
SPECIAL CONCERN FOR THE POOR & UNDER-SERVED
We give special priority to the poor, the vulnerable and the marginalised, and seek together with them to change those structures, opportunities and attitudes, which disadvantage them. We give special priority to the under-served.
SERVICE & LOVE
We seek to identify with the people in their needs and aspirations, sharing with compassion our time and capabilities, with a loving attitude of service.
FORGIVENESS & RECONCILIATION
We will be willing to acknowledge resentments, to forgive and seek reconciliation. We will seek to deal with conflict openly and positively.
INTEGRITY & HONESTY
We seek to be truthful. We require honesty in handling goods and money, and responsibility in fulfilling our duties. We seek to have integrity and be responsible stewards in working with people and communities, Creation and other resources.
PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
We desire to excel in our work, to improve our competence and to be models of efficient and humane methods of work.
PARTNERSHIP & COOPERATION
We value and are committed to demonstrate unity and to work and cooperate in partnership.
PARTICIPATION & CAPACITY BUILDING
We are committed to enabling people and communities to share in the processes of decision-making that affect them, thereby empowering them to be more effective in improving their lives. In these interactions, we all give and we all receive, we all teach and we all learn.
TRAINING
We are constantly committed to the normal task of training others, to passing on our skills and demonstrating our values to individuals and to the nation as a whole.
CULTURAL SENSITIVITY
We seek to live and work in ways that are culturally sensitive and appropriate in a nation that has such a rich diversity of custom and tradition.
ENVIRONMENT
We value the conservation and enhancement of the environment, recognising that all humans, animals and plants exist in an intricate dependency upon each other and upon all that sustains them.
HUMILITY
We seek to learn before we teach, recognising that the diverse people of Cambodia have lived in their hills and plains for hundreds of years and have acquired skills, knowledge and customs that outsiders must understand and appreciate in order to serve them.
RELIANCE ON GOD
We are committed to learn from and follow the example that Jesus Christ gave during His life on Earth, serving the needy people in a holistic way. We are motivated by and reliant on God’s love.
