ACCORDING TO G&D'S 2003 DATA, the then 16 CGIAR Centers had 7,651 staff members, including 6,500 nationally recruited, 1,033 internationally recruited and 103 regionally recruited, from 100 countries. We are 73% male.  Between 2001 and 2003 there was a system-wide 2.5 percent reduction in staff.  

One of the most positive trends is that the CGIAR is doing well in ensuring diversity across its workforce in which 58 percent of all scientists and 45 percent of management are from developing countries. 

Although the overall staff size and the total number of women decreased, the CGIAR managed not only to preserve the proportion of women staff but to slightly improve it.  In 2003, women comprised 27 percent of the CGIAR workforce, compared to 24 percent in 1995. In 2003, 9 percent of the Center management position were filled by women compared to 7.5 percent in 2001.

For more details, see Working Paper No. 40 (First the Good News...Staffing in the CGIAR, 2003, PDF- 1.25MB).