Description
This course is designed to reinforce the skills needed to build leadership and managerial effectiveness of women scientists and professionals who work in the Future Harvest Centers and other development organizations. Gender and its implications are woven throughout the course, but there is also focus on specific skills areas, including: sustaining team performance, managing conflict, and building alliances to achieve research and business results. Nearly 300 CGIAR women have attended this highly valued course thus far. It is open also to women CG collaborators, including national agricultural research institutes (NARIs), donors and partner organizations. This seven-day course is hosted by a Future Harvest Center in a different region each year, and facilitated by Training Resources Group, Inc (TRG).

Eligible Participants
All women managers and scientists working for the CGIAR, both national and international, are eligible pending approval and financial support of their centers.  Women CGIAR board members and female managers and senior scientists from our partner institutions, including donors and NARIs, are also eligible.  

Estimated cost
Approximately US$3,500 for tuition and all course materials. Travels, accommodation and meals are paid separately.

Related outcomes/benefits

• Demonstrates Center commitment to the advancement of women.
• Improves the abilities of female staff to manage their supervisory and collaborative relationships with others, leading to greater efficiency and effectiveness.
• Helps create a pool of qualified internal candidates for middle and upper level management positions, to begin to redress the gender imbalance in staffing at these upper levels.
• Increases women's own awareness and understanding of gender implications in their professional development. 
• May increase loyalty and reduce turnover of high-potential female staff, if enriched job opportunities and career paths are open to them following training.
• Raises awareness among all staff of the diversity of possible effective leadership and management styles, regardless of gender.
• Strengthens the network of women professionals working in the CGIAR, facilitating better information exchange, professional support, and possibly guidance and assistance when needed.

The Advanced women's leadership course will be held from 13-19 April 2008 at the Indian Ocean Beach Club, Mombasa Kenya.

More information on the Advanced Women's Leadership Course

 PDF Brief on Women's Leadership Course, 66KB

G&D Resources
•  Executive Selection in the CGIAR: Implications for Gender and Diversity.  G&D Working Paper No 30.  (1,934 KB)
•  Centre Self-Assessment for a Woman-Friendly Workplace.  G&D Working Paper No 29.  (1,953 KB)
•  Monitoring and Evaluating Diversity Goals and Achievements: Guidelines and Tools for The CGIAR Boards of Trustees. G&D Working Paper No 41. (PDF 548 KB)
•  Female and Male CGIAR Scientists in Comparative Perspective.  G&D Working Paper No 37. (PDF 4,808 KB)
•  Diversity-Positive Recruitment: Guidelines and Tools for the Future Harvest Centers. G&D Working Paper No 36.  (821 KB)
•  Selected Trend Data on Gender and Diversity in the Future Harvest Centres 1995-2001.  G&D Working Paper No 32.  (5,367 KB)
•  Gender and Diversity in the CGIAR: A New Baseline. G&D Working Paper No 25.  (4,369 KB)
•  Engendering Organizational Change: A Case Study of Strengthening Gender Equity and Organizational Effectiveness in an International Agricultural Research Institute.  G&D Working Paper No 21.  (844 KB)
•  Taking Stock of Gender Staffing in the CGIAR.  G&D Working Paper No 20.  (719 KB)
•  Gender Staffing in the CGIAR: Lessons Learned and Future Direction. Report of an Inter-Center Consultation, April 1998.  G&D Working Paper No 19.  (1,092 KB)
•  Toward Gender Equity: Model Policies.  G&D Working Paper No 18.  (752 KB)
•  Strangers in a Strange Land: A Literature Review of Women in Science.  G&D Working Paper No 17.  (441 KB)
•  Spouse Employment in Organizations Around the World: A Toolkit for Developing Policies and Practices. G&D Working Paper No 2.  (1,673 KB)

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Other At-Cost G&D Services
Online Course for High-Performance Research Teams  Mentoring Program for Young Scientists Follow-up Assistance for Implementation of HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy G&D Headhunting Service In-House Cultural Orientation Program Center Self-Assessment for a Woman-Friendly Workplace In-depth Diversity Diagnosis Enhancing Leadership: Negotiation Skills for Women