Projects in the Region

GCRF Water Security Hub
July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2024
Ethiopia

SHARE II
April 30, 2019 to April 29, 2024
Ethiopia

Improving Food Security and Nutrition in the Sahel by Safeguarding Wetlands through Sustainable Agricultural Water Management
July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2023
Ethiopia, Mali

Prioritization of climate-smart water management practices in Ethiopia
October 15, 2021 to April 30, 2023
Ethiopia

Towards Brown Gold? Reimagining off grid sanitation in rapidly urbanising areas in Asia and Africa
April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023 (Extended to September 1, 2023)
Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Nepal

Scaling up digital water data in Africa
February 1, 2020 to January 31, 2023
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Zambia
https://www.digitalearthafrica.org/

Reducing land degradation and carbon loss from Ethiopia's soils to strengthen livelihoods and resilience
November 1, 2019 to December 31, 2022 (Extended to October 31, 2023)
Ethiopia

Natural Resources Management for Resilience and Economic Development in Rural Ethiopia
November 2, 2018 to December 31, 2022
Ethiopia

Urban Sanitation Technologies as International Power Structures (U-STASIS)
October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2022
Bangladesh, Tanzania

FAO-AU Scoping Irrigation Study for Africa
January 13, 2022 to July 30, 2022
Burundi, Burkina Faso, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia

Knowing water better: Towards fairer and more sustainable access to natural resources for greater food security (KnoWat)
February 2, 2021 to June 30, 2022
Sri Lanka, Rwanda

Climate Smart Digital Technologies for Agriculture and Food Security - Water Component
November 30, 2021 to June 30, 2022
Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Gender-responsive innovations for soil rehabilitation, alternative fuel and agriculture for resilient refugee and host community settlements in East Africa
June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2022 (Extended to May 31, 2023)
Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda

Participatory Small-scale Irrigation Development Programme Phase II
April 26, 2019 to April 25, 2022
East Africa

Future Leaders – FLAIR Fellowships 2020
May 1, 2020 to March 31, 2022
Ethiopia

AGRUMIG
February 1, 2019 to January 30, 2022 (Extended to January 30, 2023)
Ethiopia, Kyrgyz Republic, Morocco, Moldova, Nepal, Thailand, Tajikistan
http://agrumig.iwmi.org/

The Sustainable Agricultural Intensification and Food Security Project (SAIP) - TA Support to FAO Rwanda
March 30, 2021 to January 30, 2022
Rwanda

Water Security in Ethiopia -SIWI
January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021
Ethiopia

Accelerating outreach and impact of RUL investments
January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021
Burkina Faso, Ghana, Uganda

Scoping Survey of Status, Opportunities and Challenges of Irrigation and Agriculture Water Management Practices in Africa
September 2, 2021 to December 30, 2021 (Extended to January 25, 2022)
Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe

TAAT Water Enabler Compact
February 19, 2018 to November 30, 2021 (Extended to May 31, 2022)
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mali, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania
https://taat-africa.org/water-management/

Documenting and Evaluating the socio-economic viability of agroecological practices across Africa
December 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
East Africa

GRAN-Groundwater for Resilience in Africa Network
September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2021 (Extended to March 31, 2022)
Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa

Real-time East Africa Live Groundwater Use Database: a REAL-GUD Innovation to Fill Gaps in our Knowledge of Groundwater Use, Availability, and Sustainability
October 21, 2019 to December 31, 2020 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Kenya
https://bigdata.cgiar.org/inspire/

Benchmarking Irrigation Performance and Projection of Irrigation Water Demand in the Nile Basin
September 1, 2018 to September 30, 2020 (Extended to July 31, 2021)
Ethiopia

Scaling small scale irrigation solutions to support farmer-led irrigation development
December 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019 (Extended to August 10, 2023)
Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania

Africa rising phase II ethiopia
June 1, 2018 to January 31, 2019 (Extended to March 31, 2022)
East Africa

Landscapes and ALWM intensification
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Ethiopia

ALWM Investment options for scaling solutions
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana

From Options to Integrative Decisions
January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2021 (Extended to December 31, 2019)
Ethiopia, Uganda

CRDP - Climate Resilient Dev Pathways
July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 (Extended to November 2, 2020)
Ethiopia

Online interactive tool for sustainable upscaling of smallholder solar irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa
April 10, 2019 to January 31, 2021
Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa

Modelling AMR in Water
January 1, 2019 to November 30, 2020 (Extended to January 31, 2021)
Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya, Sri Lanka, VietNam

Valuing Water - Ethiopia Journey P1
June 1, 2020 to October 30, 2020 (Extended to December 31, 2020)
Ethiopia

DAFNE
September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2020
Ethiopia, Zambia

Translating water management policy into impact - Strengthened governance arrangements at Basin Level
June 30, 2019 to December 31, 2019
Ethiopia

BR Pilot for Mozambique Malawi
May 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019
Mozambique, Malawi

Agricultural water productivity gaps
May 1, 2017 to August 31, 2019 (Extended to August 31, 2020)
Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mali

ILSSI - Phase 2 - DESIGN PHASE
December 1, 2018 to August 10, 2019
Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania

Productive landscapes project in Ethiopia and Kenya
March 8, 2019 to June 30, 2019 (Extended to June 30, 2020)
East Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya

GroFutures: Groundwater Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa
May 2, 2015 to April 30, 2019 (Extended to March 31, 2020)
Ethiopia, Niger, Tanzania, South Africa
www.grofutures.org

Shire ConWat
July 1, 2018 to April 30, 2019
Mozambique, Malawi
http://sadc-gmi.org/contact-us-shire-conwat/

Sustainable Water Management for Food Security and Nutrition in Agriculture and Food Systems
October 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019
East Africa

Water-security in Ethiopia-MUS
September 1, 2017 to February 28, 2019 (Extended to June 30, 2019)
Ethiopia

Catchment Risk Assessments using Multi-Scale Data (CARISMA) -Ethiopia
March 1, 2017 to February 28, 2019 (Extended to May 31, 2019)
East Africa

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation
November 6, 2013 to June 30, 2018 (Extended to November 30, 2018)
Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania
http://ilssi.iwmi.org/

Water law reform to improve water security for vulnerable people in Africa (SELARE ) - Phase 2
October 1, 2017 to May 31, 2018 (Extended to November 30, 2018)
Kenya, Uganda, South Africa

Sanivation
November 1, 2017 to March 30, 2018
East Africa

Felgenhauer, Katharina

Understanding the ecosystem services of flood pulsed systems
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2019)
Kenya, Myanmar

Political economy and institutional change in water management in Karamoja,Uganda
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2018)
Uganda

Developing pathways to resilience through the sustainable management of water, land and ecosystems
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 30, 2018)
Ethiopia, Ghana

Capacity development in SSI Ethiopia
January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2017
Ethiopia

Support and Research Services for a Qualitative Case Study
July 1, 2017 to November 30, 2017 (Extended to December 30, 2017)
Ethiopia

Bale Eco Region
July 9, 2014 to November 9, 2017 (Extended to April 8, 2018)
Ethiopia
http://phe-ethiopia.org/admin/uploads/attachment-1966-PHE-EC_quarter_Highlights.pdf

WISE UP: natural and built infrastructure
August 1, 2013 to July 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2017)
Kenya

Mapping out the water situation and monitoring the availability of water in Seven SADC Countries
December 22, 2016 to July 31, 2017
Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe

REACH water security & local monitoring
July 25, 2016 to July 24, 2017 (Extended to March 31, 2019)
Ethiopia

Improving Organic Resource use in rural Ethiopia (IPORE)
June 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017 (Extended to October 31, 2017)
Ethiopia

WLE in Africa : Opportunities to enhance smallholder Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa through Sustainable Water, Land and Ecosystem Management - IWMI FAO share
July 1, 2014 to April 13, 2017 (Extended to June 30, 2018)
Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Tanzania

Lefore, Nicole

Integrated Water Resource Management and Development in the Karamoja Region of Uganda: An Evidence Review of Current Investments and Best Practice
November 1, 2016 to February 28, 2017 (Extended to April 30, 2017)
East Africa

The Groundwater Solutions Initiative for Policy and Practice (GRIPP)
January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 (Extended to December 31, 2017)
India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malawi, Tunisia, South Africa

RRR impact and up-scaling
January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2016 (Extended to June 30, 2017)
Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda

Sustaining NRM interventions
February 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016 (Extended to June 30, 2017)
Ethiopia

Accounting for Nile Waters
January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016
East Africa

Rap, Edwin

Opportunity models for AWM outscaling in SSA: providing evidence for investments in sustainable intensification
January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016
Ethiopia

Water Politics in the Nile Basin- Emerging Land Acquisitions and the Hydropolitical Landscape
January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2016
Ethiopia

Innovation for Gender Equality in Water Management
January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2016
Tanzania, South Africa

Clement, Floriane

Lima Adaptation Knowledge Initiative covering five island nations in South Asia
October 3, 2016 to November 30, 2016
Comoros, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles

Alternative Carbon Investments in Ecosystems for Poverty Alleviation - ALTER
July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2016 (Extended to November 30, 2017)
Ethiopia, Uganda
http://www.espa.ac.uk/projects/ne-k010441-1

Strengthening resilience through AWM solutions
July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016 (Extended to September 30, 2016)
Ethiopia, Ghana

Comprehensive impact assessment of watershed management interventions in Ethiopia
January 1, 2015 to April 30, 2016
Ethiopia

Barron, Jennie

Transformation and ES Impacts of AWM intensificaiton: managing landscape successions
January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015 (Extended to December 31, 2016)
Ethiopia

Barron, Jennie

Drylands Program
January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015 (Extended to December 31, 2016)
Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, South Africa

Traditional and socio-hydrological approaches to ecosystem services (ESS) assessments using SWAT
January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015
Ethiopia

Quantifying the Impact of 2° C warming
October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2015
Ethiopia

Humidtropics
July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2015 (Extended to December 31, 2016)
Ethiopia, Uganda
http://humidtropics.org

Africa Rising in Ethiopia
January 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 (Extended to August 31, 2016)
Ethiopia

European Union and African Union cooperative research to increase food production in irrigated farming systems in Africa
July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015
Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Tunisia, South Africa

Impacts of large-scale investments in agricultural landscapes on water resources, ecosystems and livelihoods, and development of policy options for decision-makers
March 10, 2014 to December 31, 2014 (Extended to November 30, 2014)
Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia

The politics of Integrated Water Resources Management in Africa
April 1, 2012 to December 31, 2014
Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Composting Case Studies
June 1, 2014 to October 31, 2014 (Extended to December 31, 2014)
Cameroon, East Africa, Ghana, Global, India, Cambodia

Adaptive management of groundwater for s-s-irrigation
July 15, 2013 to July 14, 2014
Ethiopia

Langan, SimonX

GroFutures: Groundwater futures in Sub-Saharan Africa
July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014
Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania

Integrated Termite Management in Degraded Crop and Range Lands in Western Ethiopia
January 1, 2012 to April 30, 2014 (Extended to December 31, 2013)
Ethiopia

Livestock and Irrigation Value chain for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES)
April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014 (Extended to March 31, 2018)
Ethiopia

Smart Information and Communication Technology for weather and water information.
February 11, 2011 to March 30, 2014 (Extended to September 30, 2014)
China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Mali, Sudan

Adaptive and integrated tools and strategies for natural resources management in Africa at the meso-scale
March 1, 2011 to February 28, 2014 (Extended to May 31, 2014)
Ethiopia, Mali, Tunisia, Uganda, South Africa
http://www.afromaison.net/

Johnston, Robyn

Biotechnology for Africa's sustainable water supply
August 1, 2011 to January 31, 2014
Ethiopia, Ghana
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/projects/view/29958

CRP 1.3 AAS Development, Design, and Coordination
January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013 (Extended to December 31, 2016)
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nepal, Philippines, Solomon Islands, VietNam, Zambia

Improving farm productivity through integrated rainwater management strategies in the Nile Basin
March 1, 2010 to December 31, 2013 (Extended to March 9, 2014)
Ethiopia

Langan, SimonX

Improved Management of Agricultural Water in Eastern and Southern Africa (IMAWESA) Phase 2
June 2, 2010 to December 31, 2013
Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa
N/A

Lefore, Nicole

Water Governance in the Limpopo Basin
January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013
South Africa, Zimbabwe

Support to Wetlands
January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2013
Ethiopia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka

Improving rural livelihoods and their resilience through a landscape approach to rainwater management in the Nile Basin
March 1, 2010 to December 31, 2013
Ethiopia

Human rights and gender dimensions of water governance in Africa: Actors, norms and institutions.
July 1, 2010 to December 31, 2013
Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Nile Coordination and Change Project
March 1, 2010 to December 30, 2013
Ethiopia

Langan, SimonX

Africa RISING – Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
March 1, 2013 to September 30, 2013 (Extended to December 31, 2013)
Ethiopia

Langan, SimonX

Rehabilitation of Small-scale Irrigation Scheme in Masvingo, Zimbabwe
June 15, 2011 to June 30, 2013 (Extended to August 31, 2013)
Zimbabwe

Enhancing adaptive capacity to climate change impacts through well-managed water use
April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2013 (Extended to September 30, 2013)
Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia

Livestock & Irrigation Value chain for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) planning phase
April 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012 (Extended to May 31, 2013)
Ethiopia

Langan, SimonX

Project on matching technologies (or whole strategies) with environments
December 1, 2010 to December 31, 2012
Ethiopia
http://nilebdc.org/

Blue Nile Hydrosolidarities - Understanding upstream-downstream links in the Blue Nile Basin
January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2012
Ethiopia
http://www.unesco-ihe.org/content/view/node/2361 ]

Langan, SimonX

Improving the evidence for targeting agricultural water management interventions in Ethiopia: a proof of concept Quick Water
May 1, 2012 to October 31, 2012
Ethiopia

Managing Water in the Rural-Urban Interface: The Key to Climate Change Resilient Cities
August 1, 2009 to July 31, 2012 (Extended to January 29, 2013)
Ethiopia, Ghana
http://uradapt.iwmi.org

Improving Sustainability of Impacts of Agricultural Water Management Interventions in Challenging Contexts
April 1, 2009 to June 30, 2012 (Extended to December 31, 2012)
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Nepal

Capacity building for integrated river basin management for higher education institutes in Ethiopia
November 1, 2009 to June 30, 2012
Ethiopia

Langan, SimonX

Establishment of the SADC Seed Centre
December 1, 2011 to April 30, 2012 (Extended to May 31, 2014)
South Africa, Zambia

Targeting and scaling out improved water management and food production in the Limpopo Basin
January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 (Extended to December 31, 2012)
Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe

Identification and dissemination of successful agriculture water management solutions in Africa and South Asia
January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2011 (Extended to September 30, 2012)
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Tanzania, Zambia
http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/home.aspx

Giordano, Meredith

Groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for food security and livelihoods
January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2011 (Extended to June 30, 2012)
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
http://gw-africa.iwmi.org/

Evaluation of the flow regulation functions of natural ecosystems (wetlands floodplains and forests) in the Zambezi River Basin
February 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 (Extended to February 28, 2012)
Ethiopia, South Africa

Multiple use water services scoping study for identifying barriers and potentials for scaling
July 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Nepal, Tanzania
www.musgroup.net

Re-thinking water storage for climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa
April 21, 2008 to April 21, 2011 (Extended to October 31, 2011)
Ethiopia, Ghana
http://africastorage-cc.iwmi.org/Default.aspx

Wastewater and excreta re-use
January 29, 2010 to June 30, 2010 (Extended to July 31, 2010)
Cameroon, East Africa, Ghana, Global, India, Cambodia

Assessment of three water projects in Ethiopia; development of a how-to guide for future water investments; and an irrigation diagnostic
November 16, 2009 to March 31, 2010 (Extended to July 30, 2010)
Ethiopia

Optimizing productive use of water in crop-livestock systems in semi-arid areas of Southern Africa and the Blue Nile basin
March 1, 2007 to February 28, 2010 (Extended to December 31, 2011)
Ethiopia, Zimbabwe

Innovation in irrigation through capacity building and market oriented strategies
April 1, 2007 to January 1, 2010 (Extended to December 31, 2010)
Ethiopia

Potential water management interventions for increasing water productivity
January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2009 (Extended to April 30, 2010)
Ethiopia

Improve rural livelihoods and their resilience through a landscape approach to rain water management
May 1, 2007 to September 30, 2009 (Extended to April 30, 2010)
Ethiopia

Multiple-Use water Services (MUS)
June 15, 2004 to May 1, 2009
Bolivia, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Thailand, South Africa, Zimbabwe
www.musgroup.net

Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Poverty-Environment Issues in Wetland
January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2008 (Extended to September 30, 2009)
Indonesia, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Mali, Malawi, Zambia

CP 37 - Manage livestock and water resources for food security and poverty reduction.
June 15, 2004 to December 31, 2008 (Extended to June 14, 2009)
Ethiopia

Systemwide Livestock Programme (Unres)
January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2008
Ethiopia

Impact of irrigation poverty and the environment
January 1, 2004 to June 30, 2008 (Extended to December 31, 2008)
Ethiopia

Multiple-use water services and their potential applicability
February 16, 2007 to July 25, 2007
Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Benin, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Botswana, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Congo, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, India, British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago), Kenya, Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritius, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Swaziland, Seychelles, Chad, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
http://www.winrockwater.org/

Investment study for agricultural water development in sub-Saharan Africa
November 1, 2003 to March 31, 2005
Ethiopia, Sudan