The consultant shall build the capacity of the PPP Center on KM and strengthen its existing KM program and help ensure its sustainability as a robust tool that can support and maintain the PPP Center's position as the central coordinating and monitoring agency for all PPP projects in the Philippines. The consultant will primarily provide its technical assistance and share its KM expertise with the PPP Center officials and staff, with emphasis on the Knowledge Management Division (KMD) under the Capacity Building and Knowledge Management Service (CBKMS) tasked to lead the PPP Center's KM program. The consultant is expected to improve the existing KM program within the PPP Center and capacitate the various officials and staff on the value of KM and its indisputable role in fulfilling the PPP Center's mandate as the champion of PPPs in the Philippines. Finally, the consultant is expected to employ all its resources, network, skills, and expertise in developing and facilitating a working medium-term KM program for the PPP Center.

This project is focused on the Grid Reinforcement Project that is to improve transmission network capacity and stability. The Grid Reinforcement has two main objectives such as 1. expand and reinforce the electricity transmission infrastructure by constructing 115kV and 230kV transmission lines and associated substations in Phnom Penh, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Cham, and Takeo provinces and 2. introduce as a pilot the first utility-scale battery energy storage system to understand the performance of the technology and assess different business models for (a) renewable capacity firming, (b) ancillary services, and (c) transmission congestions relief and investment deferral as a combined set of services.