Knowledge Management

Vision

Several Ministries, U N Organizations NGOS and INGOS are working towards the improvement of water and sanitation scenario, in isolation. This initiative visualizes enhancement in. coordination of the groups as a first step sharing of information, data

 and initiatives . This is expected to avoid duplication of efforts and having a unified action towards the objective. Unfortunately the cooperation between the organizations needs a lot to be desired.

Introduction

This document tends to summarize WSP roundtable held in Dec 2006, Islamabad. Report with some addition based on discussions at the group.

(Google groups drinking water-Pakistan).

What is happening at Water and Sanitation front in Pakistan?

1. Ministry of Science and Technology     MOST
2. Ministry of Health                                  MOH
3. Ministry of Local Government              LGRD
4. Ministry of Environment                        MOE
5. Ministry of Industries                             MOI
6. World Health Organization                    WHO
7. UNICEF
8. World Bank                                            WB

Drinking water

1. Drinking water policy
2. Drinking water standards
3. Filtration Plants
4. Arsenic Issue
5. National water quality monitoring Program
6. Establishing new water testing labs and
7. Upgrading existing labs
8. Simple water testing gadgets
9. Survey of existing water treatment plants in Pakistan
10. Bottled Water

STAGES

Data Warehouse

Let us dump maximum information into a web site, to start with.

Give links of all the information’s, as per topics in drinking water.

Initiatives of various organizations.

We shall register various steps being taken in the field of water, sanitation and hygiene , so as to know what is happening and who is doing it, Thus we shall avoid duplication and also make use of their experience.

Information Superstore

At this stage we shall have organized data and information to be readily available to the customer.

Virtual

This upper store will be on the web and

Physical

A physical library will also be established at some central place.