SIARTC membership divides into two groups - church controlled residential RTCs and community led village based RTCs. Residential RTCs which offer full time courses are full members and SIARTC village based RTCs offering occasional short courses in vocational training for various target groups are associate members. Some RTCs also run outreach programmes to surrounding communities.

Currently, about 30% of the trainees at full member RTCs are female, and 3 of these RTCs have a female only intake. SIARTC actively encourages those RTCs that strive to improve the lives of rural women in the Solomon Islands.

The majority of SIARTC full member RTCs offer 2 or 3-year full-time vocational training courses. Facilities at centres vary - some centres have permanent buildings, others use local-style buildings of natural materials; some have no electricity. SIARTC village based RTCs usually make use of one or two community buildings.

The enrolment capacity of full member RTCs varies from 20 to 200 trainees. The total numbers of students currently in RTCs is around 1,300 - up from 850 in 2000 at the height of the ethnic tension. Due to the nature of their courses, SIARTC village based associate member RTCs have an untapped potential. Most of these centres have a mixed intake.

For detailed information on each of our members, select from the lists of Full and Associate member RTCs.