All IWMI's research is done through partnerships. Alliances have been built with universities, international and local NGOs, and institutions and governments.

IWMI also participates in a number of regional and pan-African partnerships and networks, including the Southern Africa Regional Water Partnership, Waternet - a Southern Africa network for capacity building - NEPAD, and the Africa Water Task Force (AWTF).

IWMI Partners in Africa for West Africa

International

Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries
(SANDEC) / EAWAG)
Enterprise Works Worldwide
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Development Research Center (IDRC)
Programme Solidarite Eau (pS-eau)
Resource Center on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF/ETC)
Urban Harvest

Regional

Direction Generale de l'Inventaire des Ressources Hydrauliques du Burkina-Faso (DGIRH)
Institut Africain de Gestion Urbaine (IAGU)
Institut de recherche pour le developpement (IRD)
Institut National de l'environnement et de la Recherche Agronomique (INERA)
Le Centre Regional pour l'Eau Potable et l'Assainissement a faible cout)
Regional Center for Low Cost Water Supply and Sanitation
University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Ghana

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Ghana Irrigation Development Authority (GIDA) no site
Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR) in Tropical Medicine
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Ministry of Environment and Science
Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA)
Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing
Municipalities of Accra and Kumasi
Noguchi Medical Research Institute
Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI)
University of Development Studies (UDS),Tamale
University of Ghana
Volta Basin Development Foundation (NGO)
Water Research Institute (WRI) of the CSIR)
Water Resources Commission (WRC)