• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• The IWMI component in CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & Food project no. 6 under Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) as the lead institute.