The GTZ Knowledge Management Program for the water supply and sanitation sector is a practical and participatory approach to implementing the principles of Knowledge Management. It deviates largely from the theoretical complexities and costly designs most Knowledge Management projects are at present.
The program facilitates in achieving the vision of our partner agencies on the best but simplest strategy to document information that is useful to their organizations and capture the knowledge that can be shared within and outside the sector.
The KM project under the GTZ Water Program has ventured initially on creating a central database for two of its major partners namely, the Department of Interior and Local Government-Water Supply and Sanitation Planning Management Office (DILG-WSSPMO) and the National Anti-Poverty Commission-Water Supply Coordinating Office (NAPC-WASCO). It is a collaborative effort among partners to which the GTZ Water program provided the technical expertise and physical development of the database which is known as the Project Tracking Management System (PTMS) based on the agencies’ information and knowledge requirements.

The PTMS is an intranet web application system that keeps track of all ongoing project implementation based on project targets, and document all completed water supply and sanitation projects — both can be generated to various types of reports needed by the agencies and its clientele. The PTMS is now fully operational in the DILG-WSSPMO and was also installed at the NAPC- WASCO.