• GLOWA-Volta
  Developing decision support systems for sustainable water use under changing land use, rainfall reliability and water demands in the Volta Basin
  

• Small Multipurpose Reservoirs 
  Planning and evaluating ensembles of small, multi-purpose reservoirs for the improvement of smallholder livelihoods and food security: tools and procedures (CP Water & Food project 46).

• Informal Irrigation
  Developing decision support for agricultural development and investment strategies in the Volta and Niger basins with special reference to informal smallholder irrigation (CP Water & Food project 39).

• Comprehensive Assessment (Volta Basin)
  Understanding the development of agriculture and water use in the Volta Basin based on an inventory of existing biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional data.

• Assessing Realities, Potential and Limitations of Groundwater Use
  Understanding groundwater use for various purposes in Ghana, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.

• Shallow Groundwater irrigation for livelihoods security and poverty reduction in the White Volta Basin (CPWF 65)
  This project aims to assess the current role of shallow groundwater irrigation in securing livelihoods and reducing poverty in the White Volta basin and to develop management recommendations for shallow groundwater development. Recommendations for improved management practices and policies, based on the generated knowledge base, will be developed and implemented in close cooperation with local partners in the Ghanaian Water Research Institute (WRI) and the Burkinabe Ecole Inter-Etats d'Ingénieurs de l'Equipement Rural (EIER).

• Re-thinking Water Storage for Climate Change Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Given that many countries will be (or already are) proposing significant new water storage in response to climate change, this project funded by BMZ will explore hydrologic, social, institutional and landscape scale implications of various scales of water storage and how they will be affected by climate change in study sites in West and East Africa (MTP9).

• Ghana Dams Dialogue
  In the wake of Ghana’s recent power crisis and the construction of the Bui Hydropower Dam, the National Dialogue on Dams and Development in Ghana, was initiated to contribute towards well-informed decision-making and sustainable planning and management of dams in Ghana. To date it has provided consensual recommendations to government for integration into national planning and legislation.

• Ghana Irrigation Policy Development
  Developing an irrigation policy for Ghana which addresses the formal and informal irrigation sector, participatory irrigation management and irrigation privatization.

• Regional Resource Center on Urban Agriculture & Food Security  
  under RUAF - Cities Farming for the Future Program
  Catalyzing stakeholder consultations and capacity building on urban agriculture in selected cities in Nigeria, Accra, Sierra Leone, the Gambia and Cameroon.

• Formal water rights in informal economies in the Limpopo and Volta Basins (CP66)
  This interdisciplinary project fosters innovative dialogue among different knowledge, policy and implementation communities that used to work in parallel. In particular, it translates knowledge on indigenous water rights, which is available but has largely remained academic, into operational insights on how to build upon its strengths while overcoming weaknesses. The often ignored linkages between water and land rights are examined in-depth. Lessons from more advanced debates in Latin America and South Asia are drawn upon.

• Malaria Risk Mapping (Volta Basin)
  Exploring options to produce a malaria risk map for the Volta Basin based on hospital records, climate & vegetation data, and population density.

• Urban Malaria
  Investigating how urban agriculture increases the risk of malaria in West African cities for recommendations to minimize any potential risk

• Reducing health risks arising from irrigation with polluted water
  Testing options for the reduction of wastewater use related health risks on farm, in markets and households, which go beyond those recommended by WHO (CGIAR Challenge Program on  Water & Food project no. 38, and related projects)

• Exploring the Feasibility of Scaling-up Options to Enhance Food Safety and Public Health in Ghana.
  In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), urbanization has outpaced public services especially in the sanitation sector affecting harshly environmental and human health. In line with the latest edition of the Guidelines for Safe Wastewater Irrigation (WHO-FAO-UNEP, 2006) this study funded by Google.org will test the feasibility of a larger project transforming our research on options to safeguard pubic heath into impact by outsourcing wastewater treatment and health risk reduction services from the city to the farm and postharvest sector.

• Improving the Rural-urban Nutrient Cycle through
  (Peri)Urban Agriculture
  Development of recommendations on options for waste com- posting for Municipalities taking into account detailed analyses of (i) waste supply, (ii) compost demand, (iii) institutional and legal issues, (iv) financial analysis, and (v) different
  compost process options.

Ongoing

• Re-use options for faecal sludge in agriculture (co-composting)
  Testing options for co-composting of solid waste and human excreta and of direct use of excreta in farming.

• Adoption of rangeland restoration, rainwater harvesting,
  and soil & water conservation (IPTRID)

• Scoping study on small-scale Agricultural Water Management (AWM)
  This was a short study contracted and completed in the first quarter of 2008. It was a collaboration with IFPRI, FAO and SEI funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The objective of the study was to provide an initial assessment of the potential for small-scale water control interventions to support poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA), represented by India (MTP9).

• Adoption studies of treadle pumps in West Africa (IPTRID)
  Understanding factors supporting and constraining (early) adoption of water lifting devises in West Africa in relation to different pump marketing strategies.

• Strategic innovations in dry-land farming
  Supporting options for rainwater harvesting for productive (domestic and agricultural) uses

• Empowering Farming Communities in Northern Ghana with Strategic Innovations and Productive Resources in Dryland Farming.