Gender & Diversity Program - CGIAR

THE CGIAR CENTERS launched the Gender and Diversity Program (G&D) in July 1999. Its purpose is to help the Centers leverage rich staff diversity to increase research and management excellence.

Based on a positive External Program and Management Review in 2003, and in consultation with the CGIAR leadership, CGIAR stakeholders and hundreds of staff members worldwide in 2004, in January 2005 the G&D Program launched a new strategy for 2005 to 2008, Leveraging global diversity for global impact. The consultative process also redefined our vision, values, mission, operations and working principles for 2005 to 2008.

Our Vision
By 2008, CGIAR Centers will be models of excellence for attracting and leveraging global staff diversity. Each Center will provide an inclusive work environment that endows all its staff with opportunity, dignity and well-being, empowering both women and men to fully contribute to fulfilling the CGIAR mission.

Our values
All of G&D's work is guided by four integrated values of diversity management--inclusion, opportunity, dignity and well-being.

Our Mission
To work in partnership and trust with the CGIAR Centers to empower all staff, diverse in professional discipline, nationality, gender, race, culture, ethnicity, language, age, religion, sexual orientation, and physical capability to build greater diversity and to fully leverage that diversity for global impact.

G&D envisions three strategic objectives for 2005 to 2008:

(1) Staffing: strengthen the CGIAR Centers' abilities to attract, develop and retain the highest quality staff from diverse backgrounds and regions, with particular emphasis on women in management and science.

(2) Systems: consolidate and institutionalize policies and practices that support inclusion, dignity, wellbeing and opportunity into the management systems of the CGIAR Centers.

(3) Integration: Integrate gender and diversity practices into the core work of the CGIAR Centers through closer collaboration with scientists, research teams and other global initiatives and Systems Office units of the CGIAR.

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