CGIAR Gender and Diversity Program Framework Paper
The Center for Gender in Organizations developed a framework paper for working with staff diversity as a means to enhance organizational effectiveness within the research centers supported by the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The CGIAR is a consortium of over 50 donor agencies and private foundations that support a network of 16 international agricultural research organizations located in developing and developed countries around the world.
The framework paper is an analytic review of the literature on diversity, tailored to the needs and issues confronting the CGIAR-supported international agricultural research centers. The paper includes:
- a review of key concepts and principal approaches for diagnosing and addressing staff diversity issues;
- a review of the rationale for addressing staff diversity and a summary of results of research examining the link between diversity and organizational effectiveness;
- an analysis of issues organizations confront in addressing diversity; a review of key methods and tools for working with staff diversity;
- and a review of the gaps in knowledge and methods for working with diversity in organizations.
The paper was used to guide the CGIAR in developing an effective approach for addressing diversity that builds on the achievements attained through the earlier Gender Staffing Program.
The framework paper is available through the CGO working paper series as CGO Working Paper, No. 11: Working with Diversity: A Focus on Global Organizations. Deborah Merrill-Sands and Evangelina Holvino with James Cumming, November 2000.
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