Consultation with the Gender and Diversity Program of the CGIAR
In September 2000, CGO Senior Research Faculty Dr. Evangelina Holvino served as an expert advisor to the first strategy and technical workshop of the Gender and Diversity Program of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research, entitled “CGIAR Centers Working with Diversity for Excellence and Impact.”
The goal of the Gender and Diversity Program, under the leadership of Vicki Wilde, is to institutionalize the leadership, skills, policies, and norms that will ensure the CGIAR Centers’ capacity to work with and capture the full benefits of staff diversity. This workshop was the first face-to-face meeting between Gender and Diversity Program staff and representatives of the 16 Centers, and marked the beginning of a discussion and transfer of models and methods for working with diversity to the individual Centers.
Workshop participants constituted a very diverse group: 10 nationalities were represented among a total of 29 participants. Six international diversity experts, including Evangelina, were responsible for delivering the content of the workshop. Evangelina presented the framework paper CGO had been commissioned to develop, which is entitled Working with Diversity: Framework and Approaches to Organization Change, as well as an interactive module on the Multicultural Organization Development Model. The workshop provided an opportunity to test the usefulness of the framework for internal change agents and resulted in the development of rich educational materials to make the framework understood at the level of “head, heart, and hand.”
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