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The company has been undertaking numerous actions in recent years to boost gender equality.
         Aqualia professionals have expressed their appreciation of the training, mentoring, workshops
         and informational campaigns to address domestic violence.




         Women with
         high potential


         One of the objectives pursued       Additionally, an Aqualia
         by the organisation entails         executive participated in the
         encouraging women to                Promociona Program run by
         assume posts of greater             ESADE with support from
         responsibility. In this regard,     the Spanish Confederation
         the 2017 edition of the             of Employer Organisations
         Executive Development               (CEOE) and Ministry of Health,
         Program for Women with              Social Services and Equality.
         High Potential once again           This programme is conceived
         helped coach participants in        to empower and improve the
         executive skills. Three Aqualia     potential of women to achieve
         employees successfully              executive positions and create
         completed this training held        shared leaderships.                 The three Aqualia employees in the programme
         at the School for Industrial                                            (from the left) Marta Rovira, Mª Ángeles Polo
         Organisation (EOI).                                                     and Ana Escribano, together with HR Director
                                                                                 Carmen Rodríguez.




         Second
         Mentoring Plan

         Aqualia concluded the second        thus simplify their career
         edition of its Mentoring            development at the
         programme and commenced             organisation.
         the third in 2017. The
         programme was put in place to       As a new addition to this third
         foster female talent, increase      edition, newly hired service
         the presence, visibility and        managers will receive active
         participation of                    integration.                        Participants in the Third Edition of the Mentoring
         women in the organisation and                                           Programme.





         Impersonal hiring
         processes

         The equality of opportunities       Implementation and                  hiring processes for executives
         in the job market faces its first   Assessment Protocol for             and managers and thus
         stumbling block in recruitment      staff selection. The protocol       preclude possible gender
         and hiring processes. For this      lays out a general framework        biases when hiring or
         reason, Aqualia and the FCC         for working with the State          promoting staff.
         Group signed a General              Secretariat for Social Services
         Anonymous Curriculum                and Equality to promote the
         Vitae Project Design,               implementation of impersonal











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