BY SAMIE WAIKORI

Solomon Water highly recognises gender equality as part of its action plan that forms an integral aspect of its Strategic Plan launched in 2024.

The policy aims to encourage gender equality in the organisation, where women representation in its workforce is only at 35 percent.

A presentation by Solomon Water at the 16th Pacific Water and Wastewater Annual Association Conference and Expo in Honiara on Thursday, August 28, 2025 highlighted the importance of gender and social inclusion in the strategic plan of the organisation.

Solomon Water has embedded gender and social inclusion and recognises the impact that gender equality has in this action plan.

Solomon Water has a reputation as an employer of choice for gender equality and has been working towards it, despite being a male dominated organisation.

The organization has female employees and a snapshot in terms of gender scale at Solomon Water is 35% representation of women in the workforce and 75% male and they have 16 women who have actively taken up leadership roles.

In the technical field, there are 13 female engineers, coordinators and team leaders.

Solomon Water recognises the energy that women bring to the workforce and have delivered 11 trainings so far for technical and non-technical fields.

Of the 75 participants in these trainings, 19 were women.

Moreover, Solomon Water’s Strategic Plan launched in 2024 recognises the challenges faced in the Pacific region and in the local context and have incorporated it into the development of their strategy.

The strategy’s focus is to ensure that people have the right knowledge and skills to support what they are required to do.

With the organisation structure that’s developed at the moment, Solomon Water is working towards defining job descriptions and competencies. They are measuring and linking individual performances to organisational performances.

The organisation is also implementing performance reviews on an annual basis and when they step in as part of community support, they identify training gaps and put them together as a training development plan.

Like any water authority or organization in the Pacific, Solomon Water will always come across challenges, but will continue to strive to deliver it’s services.

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