Gender Equality Action Plan 2022-2025 of CIHEAM

CIHEAM Montpellier (the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier) is a transnational institute for higher education, research and development cooperation on agriculture and rural development across the Mediterranean basin. It has adopted a Gender Equality Action Plan for 2022-2025 in response to persistent social, cultural and economic gender inequalities in these sectors.

The plan sets out to build an internal culture of gender equality through information, awareness-raising and training (including mechanisms to detect and address gender-based violence), to make HR management gender-sensitive from recruitment through career progression, to make higher and continuing education programmes gender-inclusive, and to integrate a gender dimension into the design, implementation and evaluation of all research projects.

Concrete actions for 2022-2025 include publicising the institute's gender-equality HR policy in all recruitment calls, using diversified networks to attract women candidates, creating gender-balanced selection panels (requiring justification where balance cannot be maintained), and fostering gender balance in management and leadership positions.

CIHEAM Montpellier frames the plan as evidence of institutional commitment to equality between men and women on its governing board, targeting women in agriculture and rural development across the Mediterranean region; the source material is the institute's own policy document and does not include independent outcome evaluation.