Welcome to West Africa
IWMI Africa shares the vision of the African Union for "an Africa free from hunger and poverty" and supports its NEPAD program. With offices in Pretoria, Addis Ababa and Ghana, IWMI is represented in all the sub-regions of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
IWMI West Africa has its main office in Accra, Ghana, and activities throughout the sub-region. Satellite offices are in Kumasi and soon also in Ouagadougou.
We work in collaboration with national, sub-regional, regional and international partners, other Future Harvest (CGIAR) centers and a large number of advanced research institutions, mainly in Europe and USA.
Our sub-regional research portfolio has its focus on efforts to reduce poverty and provide improved food security through sustainable and efficient agricultural water use. Related projects range from the analysis of adoption factors for treadle pumps to basin scale modeling, irrigation policy development, the relationship between malaria and irrigation, and health risk reduction despite wastewater use. Projects are currently distributed over four (4) major research areas:
• Integrated Water Resources Management
• Policies and Institutional Capacity Building
• Safe Use of Wastewater excreta and Solid Waste in (Peri)-urban Agriculture
• Technology Adoption and Dissemination