Home Page - Rural Water Supply Schemes in Tanzania

Overview
The database on rural water supply schemes has been developed during the years 2000 to 2002 within the Project "SUPPORT OF THE TANZANIAN WATER SECTOR", executed by the German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ). The database is located in the Ministry of Water and Livestock Development, Dar es Salaam. Up to now more than 1500 out of about 9000 villages in Tanzania have been covered.
The database has been initially developed under MS-Access, with a GIS plug-in (MapObjects Light from ESRI) for thematic mapping of query results. It covers a wide range of administrative, organisational, financial, technical and resources-related data.
In order to improve the dataflow from the district water engineers to the central database in Dar es Salaam, and to improve the feedback to the data sources, it is aimed to gradually convert the PC-based database to an Internet based database. As database, MySQL has been chosen, page generation is though PHP.
The purpose of this site here is to test these developments. This second test version has already the functionality to show all data input and output forms. But, while queries, mapping and reports are already available, remote data editing through web forms is not yet enabled.
The principal pages are:

Home page
(this is the page you are just reading)
Data output
(Queries, mapping and report generation)
Data input
(Data input forms can be navigated, showing the full data available as for July 2004. Data editing is enabled for registered users.)
Database documentation
(the individual topics illustrated by sample data)
Download area
(for data entry forms in PDF-format. The printouts of these pages are suitable to manually enter data on rural water supply schemes.)
User login
User feedback
including User login. This includes a weblog which will be used to post news and can also function as discussion forum.