Projects in the Region

South Asia Water Security Initiative Demonstration Project for Pakistan
April 16, 2021 to June 30, 2025
Pakistan

Solar irrigation for Agricultural Resilience
December 1, 2019 to December 31, 2023
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan

TA-9803 NEP: IWRM Bagmati River Basin
October 15, 2021 to October 15, 2023
Nepal

Increasing the resilience of biodiversity and livelihoods in Colombo’s wetlands
September 1, 2020 to July 31, 2023 (Extended to January 31, 2024)
Sri Lanka

Water Management for Enhanced Productivity
July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2023
Pakistan

The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) Objective III - Covid-19 Response and Resilience Activity in Nepal
July 1, 2021 to June 15, 2023
Nepal

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

CGIAR GENDER Platform: Doing Science with Society
July 1, 2021 to December 30, 2022
India

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

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Water for Women 2022 Outreach Extension – Nepal
January 1, 2022 to September 30, 2022
Nepal

INDIA RESILIENCE Programme
October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2022
India

Collective Reflective Learning for Social Justice in Nepal’s Community-Based Natural Resource Management
September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022
Nepal

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

Opportunities for brackish and saline aquaculture in Pakistan
June 15, 2021 to June 30, 2022
Pakistan

Review of solar pumping practices in the Punjab province to inform agri-water-energy sector reform
December 2, 2021 to June 30, 2022
Pakistan

Development of a Universal Weather Index Insurance Portal for scaling bundled solutions in Sri Lanka
December 15, 2021 to June 15, 2022
Sri Lanka

Water Resource Accountability in Pakistan (WRAP) - Component 1
November 5, 2021 to March 31, 2022
Pakistan

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/

Capacity Building Workshop on High Efficiency Irrigation System in Baluchistan
November 27, 2021 to January 15, 2022 (Extended to February 28, 2022)
Pakistan

Enabling effective COVID-19 crisis response in Nepal through appropriate agricultural machinery, resilience enhancing irrigation, and entrepreneurship
July 13, 2020 to December 31, 2021 (Extended to April 30, 2022)
Nepal

Strengthening CWRM Planning for Building Resilience - WASCA II
December 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021 (Extended to March 31, 2022)
India

Demonstration of nature based solutions for improving the resilience of groundwater aquifers in Islamabad
July 7, 2021 to December 31, 2021 (Extended to March 31, 2022)
Pakistan

Gender Platform: MC Support
January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021
Sri Lanka

ICAR Program Support 2021
January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021
India

Weather Index Insurance in Sri Lanka
January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021
Sri Lanka

CGIAR COVID-19 Hub Bangladesh: Water-related risk and crop monitoring tool under the food system dashboard in Bangladesh
January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021
Bangladesh

Capacity Building of Staff of Agriculture Department, Government of Balochistan on "On-Farm Water Management"
October 21, 2021 to December 31, 2021
Pakistan

Pakistan Water Week 2021
November 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021
Pakistan

AWP Water Accounting in Practice
November 19, 2019 to December 6, 2021 (Extended to July 26, 2022)
India, Sri Lanka

E-flows for the Limpopo River
April 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021 (Extended to March 31, 2022)
Sri Lanka, South Africa

FAO: Advocacy document on smallholders: Unlocking the potential of smallholders for inclusive, resilient and sustainable food systems
July 5, 2021 to September 30, 2021 (Extended to October 31, 2021)
Sri Lanka

Solar irrigation in India
September 2, 2019 to August 31, 2021 (Extended to March 31, 2022)
India

Automated and Real Time Monitoring of Groundwater Levels from Remote Locations, Transmission of Data, Processing and Visualization
March 2, 2020 to July 31, 2021 (Extended to March 31, 2022)
Sri Lanka

From urban waste to sustainable value chains: Linking sanitation and agriculture through innovative partnerships
May 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021 (Extended to March 31, 2022)
Sri Lanka

WASH and Gender in Nepal
July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2021 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Nepal

Raising the WLE profile through strategic outputs
June 1, 2019 to May 31, 2021 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Sri Lanka

City-Region Food Systems and Climate change
May 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Ghana, Sri Lanka

Water4Ag Synthesis
May 12, 2020 to December 31, 2020 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Sri Lanka

Systematic Asset Management System (SAMS)
June 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Sri Lanka

Flood Hazard Model in Index-based Flood Insurance (IBFI) in South Asia
January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2018 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Bangladesh, India

Weather index insurance: Addressing the question of equity in Asia and Africa
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Bangladesh, India

Linking land tenure security with state transformation processes in Asia
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2021)
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nepal

Big Data in Agriculture
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2022 (Extended to December 31, 2019)
Sri Lanka

Using Nature Based Solutions for Building Climate Resilience in Watersheds in Nepal (NBS-WM)
August 9, 2021 to December 15, 2021
Nepal

Modeling waterborne antimicrobial resistance: Phase 2
February 1, 2021 to November 30, 2021
Sri Lanka

Drought Monitoring and Forecasting to Enhance Agriculture Resilience and Improving Food Security in South Asia
July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2021 (Extended to October 31, 2021)
India, Sri Lanka

Documenting Best Practices for Revival of Springs
October 1, 2020 to June 15, 2021 (Extended to September 30, 2021)
India

Role of groundwater in agrarian change in West Bengal and Bangladesh: A comparative analysis
October 23, 2020 to May 31, 2021
India

Flood Index Inusurance - Bangaldesh
April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021
Bangladesh

Support to DFID Nepal Resilience Project
April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021
Nepal

ITC Phase 2 - Mission Sunehra Kal
March 1, 2019 to February 28, 2021 (Extended to May 31, 2021)
India

Estb drought early warning system
March 20, 2020 to February 26, 2021 (Extended to July 30, 2021)
Sri Lanka

Fostering trust amongst Pakistan’s water institutions
February 14, 2020 to January 31, 2021 (Extended to March 15, 2021)
Pakistan

Towards an urban road map on food waste prevention reduction and recovery
September 9, 2019 to January 31, 2021 (Extended to February 28, 2021)
Sri Lanka

Principal Advisor - Water Resources Planning & Development
June 16, 2020 to December 15, 2020 (Extended to June 30, 2021)
Pakistan

Water manaement inputs to FAO GEF FOLUR project (India)
August 17, 2020 to December 15, 2020 (Extended to January 31, 2021)
India

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

WASAG IWMI Component
November 8, 2019 to November 20, 2020
Sri Lanka
No

Uhlenbrook, Stefan

TA Hub FSM and SWM solutions
June 12, 2020 to September 11, 2020
Bangladesh

ACIAR Nepal Extension
July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020
Nepal

West Bengal Accelerated Development of Minor Irrigation Project (WBADMIP)
February 3, 2020 to May 31, 2020 (Extended to November 15, 2020)
India

WEF Nexus in West Bengal, India
June 21, 2019 to April 30, 2020 (Extended to May 30, 2020)
India

Direct Benefit Transfer of Electricity Project in Punjab – Evaluation
October 8, 2018 to March 15, 2020 (Extended to March 31, 2021)
India

Water Security and Climate Adaptation in Rural India
December 3, 2019 to February 29, 2020 (Extended to May 30, 2020)
India

Preparing Integrated Water Productivity
May 20, 2019 to February 20, 2020 (Extended to August 31, 2020)
Sri Lanka

IWRM in India
January 15, 2017 to January 14, 2020 (Extended to February 15, 2020)
India

Organic Fertilizer Standards for sustainable soil management and agriculture
January 2, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (Extended to May 31, 2020)
Ghana, Sri Lanka

Assessment of current fecal sludge management (FSM) approaches under existing World Bank-funded sanitation programs in Sri Lanka
April 16, 2019 to December 31, 2019 (Extended to April 30, 2020)
Sri Lanka

Capacity Building of Water Professionals of Pakistan on Technological Innovations for Water Management in 21st Century
November 6, 2019 to November 30, 2019
Pakistan

Climate Resilient Integrated Water Management Project
November 1, 2017 to October 31, 2019 (Extended to March 15, 2020)
Sri Lanka

Preparing Kurram Tangi Integrated Water Resources Development Project - Hydrology input
May 29, 2019 to August 30, 2019 (Extended to November 30, 2019)
Pakistan

Solar Irrigation for Agriculture Resilience (SoLAR)
November 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019 (Extended to October 31, 2019)
India

Hydrological monitoring of watershed interventions in Nepal
January 15, 2015 to July 31, 2019
Nepal

SLMM-Swachh Bharat Mission-G
November 14, 2017 to April 30, 2019 (Extended to October 30, 2019)
India

Training in WRM applications using online tools
October 15, 2018 to April 30, 2019
India

MAR Sri Lanka Scoping Study
January 18, 2019 to March 31, 2019
Sri Lanka

Sustainable Water Futures Development in Western Nepal
April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2019
Nepal
http://djb.iwmi.org/

CKDU in Sri Lanka
September 22, 2017 to March 22, 2019 (Extended to September 10, 2019)
Sri Lanka

World Bank Water Week Preparation
December 17, 2018 to March 13, 2019 (Extended to May 20, 2019)
Sri Lanka

Research and capacity building for inter-sectoral private sector engagement for soil rehabilitation
February 1, 2016 to January 31, 2019 (Extended to April 30, 2019)
Ghana, Sri Lanka

IWMI-INDIA Water Policy Program
January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2018 (Extended to December 31, 2020)
India

Piloting & upscaling UTFI in the Ganges
January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2018
India

Mid Term Review of ACIAR projects in Pakistan
November 15, 2018 to December 14, 2018
Pakistan

Enhanced Engagement in research on Kabul River Basin (EKaRB)
November 1, 2015 to October 31, 2018 (Extended to April 30, 2019)
Pakistan

Demonstration of a decentralized and sustainable FSM solution in a low-income resettlement colony in Delhi
September 13, 2016 to September 30, 2018 (Extended to March 31, 2019)
India

ADB Disaster Risk Mapping Project
April 17, 2018 to September 30, 2018 (Extended to March 31, 2019)
Sri Lanka

Improving dry season agriculture for marginal and tenant farmers in the Eastern Gangetic Plains
September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2018 (Extended to June 30, 2019)
Nepal

Feasibility Study to assess a new partnership between SDC and Nestle to promote Water-Efficient Food Production in Pakistan
May 1, 2018 to July 6, 2018 (Extended to September 15, 2018)
Pakistan

Environmental Drivers of AMR in Sri Lanka
November 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018
Sri Lanka

SAWI Groundwater Diagnostic Study
May 31, 2017 to May 30, 2018 (Extended to December 31, 2018)
India

ProSoil development program
November 20, 2017 to May 20, 2018 (Extended to July 31, 2018)
India

IWMI-ICAR Research Project 2020
April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018 (Extended to December 31, 2020)
India

Assessment of Floods and Droughts: Improved Solution for Mitigation and Risk Management in South Asia
July 1, 2015 to March 31, 2018 (Extended to August 31, 2018)
Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Agriculture Risks Assessment Phase II
November 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018 (Extended to June 30, 2018)
Sri Lanka

Nepal Resilience Portfolio (MEL)
August 1, 2017 to January 31, 2018 (Extended to March 31, 2019)
Nepal

State of land and water resources in Asia
April 30, 2017 to January 31, 2018 (Extended to May 31, 2018)
Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan

Climate change resilience, Nepal
January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to May 31, 2019)
Nepal

Portfolio of Land and water interventions for climate smart villages
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2018)
India

Innovative Risk Management Solutions for Floods and Drought to support national strategies for Disaster Risk Reduction in South Asia
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2018)
India, Sri Lanka

Demonstrating and promoting an innovative landscape-based solution for flood capture and subsurface storage
January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2018)
Global, India, VietNam

Informing Change in the Indus Basin
October 1, 2015 to December 31, 2017 (Extended to December 22, 2018)
Afghanistan, China, India, Pakistan

Pakistan Water Security Diagnostic
May 20, 2017 to September 30, 2017 (Extended to June 30, 2018)
Pakistan

Strategic Basin Assessment of Brahmaputra System in Northeast India
August 23, 2016 to August 31, 2017 (Extended to March 31, 2018)
India

Training Programme for FSM
January 1, 2017 to August 31, 2017
India
http://www.enviu.org/

Rao, Chaitanya Krishna

Provision of Capacity Development in Water Accounting Plus (WA+) and Associated Tools for Central Water Commission India
May 11, 2017 to July 31, 2017
India

Sustainable waste management in Vavuniya and Mannar, Sri Lanka.
January 27, 2017 to July 26, 2017
Sri Lanka

Groundwater Use in Irrigation
July 15, 2016 to July 15, 2017 (Extended to August 31, 2017)
Sri Lanka

providing estimates of crop stress&yield
February 1, 2017 to May 31, 2017 (Extended to January 31, 2019)
India

Participatory and transparent budgeting for improving social accountability and reducing corruption: experiences from the WASH sector
September 5, 2016 to May 31, 2017
Nepal

Clement, Floriane

Climate Resilient Agriculture-Nepal
August 1, 2013 to May 31, 2017
Nepal

Improving Rural Livelihoods - GoK-CGIAR Initiative
April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2017 (Extended to March 31, 2020)
India

Business model development and feasibility assessment in Dhule
September 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017 (Extended to June 30, 2017)
India

City Region Food System (CRFS)
May 25, 2015 to February 28, 2017 (Extended to March 15, 2018)
Sri Lanka
http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/en/

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

Implementation and evaluation of community water management at the sub-polder scale for increased land and water productivity and improved livelihoods in the coastal zone of Bangladesh
January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016
Bangladesh, India

Buisson, Marie-CharlotteX

Hydropower development in the context of climate change in the Eastern Himalayas
December 1, 2014 to December 31, 2016
Nepal

Clement, Floriane

Groundwater security through water governance
January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016
Sri Lanka

Global Assessments of RRR, Wastewater Irrigation & Water Quality
January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2016
Sri Lanka

Solar Power as Remunerative Crop (SPaRC)
May 1, 2015 to December 30, 2016
India

Restoring the Ganges: healthier rivers for safer water and more productive agro-ecosystems
January 15, 2015 to December 15, 2016
India

Turning Faecal Sludge into a High-value Asset
June 1, 2016 to November 30, 2016 (Extended to March 31, 2017)
Sri Lanka

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

Mobile weather stations and flood alerts
November 9, 2015 to November 8, 2016 (Extended to January 25, 2018)
Sri Lanka

Validating the applicability of innovative Fecal Sludge Management in small towns in Nepal
January 20, 2016 to October 20, 2016 (Extended to July 31, 2017)
Sri Lanka, Nepal

Vairavamoorthy, Kalanith

Solid Waste Management in Batticaloa
March 15, 2016 to September 30, 2016
Sri Lanka

Fecal Sludge+Urine Reuse in Agriculture
August 1, 2013 to July 31, 2016 (Extended to June 30, 2016)
India
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/dsc/peerscience/PGA_084076

Rao, Chaitanya Krishna

ADB Asian Leadership Program - Water Resources
May 1, 2016 to June 30, 2016 (Extended to February 15, 2017)
Sri Lanka

Makin, Ian

Climate Change Risks in Water Resources Management in South Asia
January 12, 2016 to June 30, 2016 (Extended to December 30, 2016)
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan

Scope of SWAT modeling to support catchment area management in Nepal
December 8, 2015 to June 30, 2016 (Extended to November 10, 2016)
Nepal

Chinnasamy, Pennan

Adaptation to Climate Change:An integrated science-stakeholder-policy approach to develop an adaptation framework for the water & agriculture sectors in Indian states of Andhra Pradesh & Tamilnadu
April 15, 2012 to April 30, 2016 (Extended to June 30, 2017)
India

Irrigation Schemes of Sri Lanka
October 12, 2015 to April 30, 2016 (Extended to June 30, 2016)
Sri Lanka

Siddiqui, Salman

DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH ASIA DROUGHT MONITORING SYSTEM (SA DMS)
August 13, 2015 to April 30, 2016
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan

Four Basin Gender Profiles
February 1, 2014 to March 31, 2016 (Extended to December 31, 2016)
Sri Lanka
n/a

Market Access and Water Technology for Women
October 1, 2013 to February 29, 2016
Nepal

Clement, Floriane

Risks and Responses to Urban Futures (ESPA)
February 1, 2014 to January 31, 2016 (Extended to January 31, 2017)
Bangladesh, India, Nepal

ADB Water Security
January 23, 2015 to January 22, 2016 (Extended to September 30, 2016)
Sri Lanka

Enhancing provisioning ecosystems services through Farmer Institutions
January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 (Extended to December 31, 2016)
Pakistan

Developing Basin Scale Hydro-economic Tool within the Framework of Water-Energy-Environment-Food (WEEF) Nexus
January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015 (Extended to December 31, 2016)
Bangladesh, India

Sood, Aditya

Fecal sludge business model development
January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015 (Extended to December 31, 2016)
Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal

Rao, Chaitanya Krishna

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

Connecting Policies and Discourses to Farmers’ Voices
January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015 (Extended to July 31, 2015)
Nepal
gendercc-southasia.iwmi.org

Clement, Floriane

Basin Development challenges & solutions
June 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015
Ghana, India, Nepal, Uzbekistan

Pakistan Water Dialogue: Increasing water-use efficiency, water capture and water storage for agriculture to improve water availability for all
September 20, 2013 to September 30, 2015 (Extended to January 31, 2016)
Pakistan

Vulnerability and robustness of irrigation systems
May 1, 2013 to August 31, 2015 (Extended to August 31, 2016)
Nepal, Thailand

Bastakoti, Ram

Improved Village scale groundwater recharge and management for agriculture and livelihood development in India
September 1, 2011 to June 30, 2015 (Extended to June 30, 2017)
India

Sustainable and Resilient Farming Systems Intensification in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (‘SRFSI’)
May 12, 2014 to June 30, 2015 (Extended to June 30, 2016)
Nepal

Sugden, Fraser

Development of South Asia Drought Monitoring System
July 1, 2014 to April 30, 2015
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan

Water Resources Mapping to support SRFSI in nine districts of EGP
March 4, 2014 to February 28, 2015 (Extended to August 31, 2015)
Bangladesh, India, Nepal

Okwany, Romulus

Water allocation for ecosystems and livelihoods: Introduction and uptake of environmental flows’ concepts in Nepal and India
January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014 (Extended to December 31, 2015)
Nepal

Water Availability and Agricultural Adaptation Options of the Koshi Basin under Global Environmental Change
February 1, 2013 to December 31, 2014 (Extended to October 31, 2015)
China, India, Nepal

Value at end of sanitation value-chain
May 1, 2013 to November 30, 2014 (Extended to February 28, 2015)
Bangladesh
http://vesv.iwmi.org/

Revitalizing Irrigation in Pakistan
December 1, 2010 to November 30, 2014
Pakistan

IWM Assessing options for effective water governance in Pakistan Indus Basin Irrigation System
November 1, 2012 to October 31, 2014 (Extended to February 15, 2016)
Pakistan

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

Enhancement of natural water systems and treatment methods for safe and sustainable water supply in India
October 26, 2011 to October 25, 2014
India
http://www.saphpani.eu

Innovation in India for more food with less water
August 6, 2013 to August 5, 2014 (Extended to May 31, 2015)
India

Samad, M.

Municipal Solid Waste and Fecal Sludge Pollution & Reuse Potential Assessment in Sri Lanka
August 2, 2012 to July 31, 2014 (Extended to December 31, 2016)
Sri Lanka

Impacts of climate change and watershed development on whole-of-basin agricultural water security in the Krishna and Murray-Darling Basins
April 1, 2010 to June 30, 2014 (Extended to December 31, 2014)
India

Assessing the contribution of meso-scale watershed development in Andrha Pradesh to the Indian Government's sustainable livelihoods goal
June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2014 (Extended to May 31, 2015)
India

Impact of external drivers on water resources in the Ganges
April 30, 2011 to April 30, 2014 (Extended to October 30, 2014)
India

Increasing the resilience of agricultural and aquacultural systems in the coastal areas of the Ganges Delta: Water governance and community based management
April 30, 2011 to April 25, 2014 (Extended to December 15, 2014)
Bangladesh

Buisson, Marie-CharlotteX

Global Assessment of Wastewater Irrigation
April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2014
India

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

Role of Groundwater in Food Security
November 15, 2013 to December 31, 2013 (Extended to April 30, 2017)
China, India, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan, Tunisia, Tunisia, Tunisia, Tunisia, Tunisia

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

Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture
March 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013 (Extended to December 31, 2015)
Indonesia, India, Iran, Morocco, Peru, South Africa
www.ais.unwater.org/wastewater

Fertile Soils for Peri-Urban Agriculture in Hyderabad
June 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013 (Extended to October 31, 2014)
India

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

Water availability and demand analysis of the Indus Basin under Climate Change
February 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013
Pakistan

Safe Nutrient, Water and Energy Recovery - developing a Business case
June 17, 2011 to December 30, 2013 (Extended to September 30, 2014)
Ghana, India, Sri Lanka

Food Security in West Bengal
February 1, 2013 to December 15, 2013 (Extended to April 30, 2014)
India

Water-related interventions to reduce vulnerability to climate change: do they address the structural causes of gendered vulnerability in the IGP
July 1, 2012 to August 30, 2013 (Extended to December 31, 2015)
Bangladesh, India, Nepal
gendercc-southasia.iwmi.org

Sugden, Fraser

Climate and Water Advisory Forum in India
June 6, 2012 to May 30, 2013 (Extended to March 31, 2014)
India

Palanisami K.

Water storage infrastructure development for coping with temporal and spatial variability in water resources
May 1, 2010 to April 30, 2013
China, India, Nepal

Economic incentives for sustainable land and water management in South and Southeast Asia
April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2013 (Extended to March 31, 2014)
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nepal, Thailand, VietNam
ftp://ftp.lk.iwmi.org (publications)

Scoping Study to assess constraints and opportunities for sustaining the tank irrigation ecosystems and smallholder livelihoods in East India and Nepal
May 1, 2012 to February 28, 2013 (Extended to December 31, 2013)
India, Nepal

Palanisami K.

New tools for managing food security, livelihoods and environment in a changing climate
February 1, 2010 to January 31, 2013
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan
www.ccafs.cgiar.org

Climate change scenarios for the impact of the Indian monsoon on agricultural productivity in the Krishna Basin, India
December 1, 2009 to November 30, 2012 (Extended to March 31, 2013)
India
http://www.bioforsk.no/ikbViewer/page/prosjekt/tema?p_dimension_id=21795&p_menu_id=21803&p_sub_id=21796&p_dim2=22035

Palanisami K.

Building climate resilience of watersheds in mountain regions of Nepal
December 23, 2011 to November 1, 2012 (Extended to February 28, 2013)
Nepal

Preliminary assessment and R&D proposal development for Climate Resilient Farming Systems in Eastern India, Nepal and Bangladesh
August 1, 2012 to October 31, 2012
Bangladesh, India, Nepal

Improving the institutional performance of watershed development programs in Andhra Pradesh.
October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2012 (Extended to May 31, 2013)
India

Clement, Floriane

Monitoring impacts of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry on climate change adaptation and mitigation
March 1, 2012 to August 31, 2012
Sri Lanka

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

Developing research options to mainstream climate adaptation into farming systems in Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh and India
July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2012
Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Lacombe, Guillaume

Revitalizing irrigation and agricultural water governance in Asia to meet Millennium Goals
January 1, 2011 to April 30, 2012 (Extended to March 31, 2013)
China, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, VietNam

Prathapar, Sanmugam

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

Opportunities for alternative power supply delivery and power subsidies for agriculture in India.
December 1, 2010 to December 31, 2011 (Extended to July 31, 2012)
India

Mukherji, AditiX

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

Impacts of climate change on hydropower development in the Godavari River Basin, India
February 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
India

Palanisami K.

Environmentally Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Upper Ganga Basin
November 1, 2008 to October 31, 2011 (Extended to March 31, 2012)
India

Review of irrigation management transfer and particpatory irriagtion management interventions in Asia
December 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011
India

Mukherji, AditiX

Analyzing the water footprint of coffee production
March 1, 2011 to August 1, 2011 (Extended to August 31, 2011)
Sri Lanka

Impact of metering agricultural tube wells on groundwater use and configuration of groundwater markets in West Bengal
June 1, 2010 to July 31, 2011 (Extended to March 31, 2012)
India

Mukherji, AditiX

Food security, water productivity and poverty, its significance within the India-Bangladesh sub region
November 15, 2010 to February 15, 2011 (Extended to April 30, 2011)
Bangladesh, India

IWMI TATA Water Policy Research Program
January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2010 (Extended to December 31, 2012)
India

Palanisami K.

From Seed to Table: sutainable urban farming in South and South East Asia
January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2010 (Extended to June 30, 2011)
India, Sri Lanka
http://ruaf.iwmi.org/; http://ruaf-asia.iwmi.org/; http://www.ruaf.org/node/1970

Matching water-crop requirements in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province
July 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 (Extended to June 30, 2011)
Pakistan

Impact of the National Rural Emplyoment Guarantee Act on rural water security in selected states of India
January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010
India

Samad, M.

Sustainable water resources and irrigation management for central and state government in India
October 1, 2009 to October 31, 2010
India

Samad, M.

Developing social and water poverty maps to improve water harvesting in Northeast India
May 1, 2008 to June 30, 2010 (Extended to December 31, 2012)
India

Poverty reduction in complex faming systems of eastern India
October 10, 2008 to June 30, 2010 (Extended to December 31, 2011)
India

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

Water efficiency for food production and ecosystems  
December 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010
China, Sri Lanka
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Topics/Ecosystems/Media_Coverage.aspx

Measuring the water footprints of milk production: contributions to livelihood benefits and sustainable water use in the Moga District in Punjab, India
September 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010 (Extended to June 15, 2010)
India

CLIMAWATER- Estimating climate induced vulnerability and changes in agricultural productivity in the Godavari Basin, India.
June 15, 2009 to March 1, 2010 (Extended to February 28, 2012)
India

Palanisami K.

Assessing irrigation subsidies in Andhra Pradesh, India
August 1, 2009 to February 28, 2010 (Extended to March 31, 2011)
India

Palanisami K.

Asian Water Security Outlook 2010
September 25, 2009 to February 28, 2010
China, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uzbekistan

Basin-wide analysis of conditions, constraints and opportunities and improving agriculture water productivity
January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2009
Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan

Improving water productivity, reducing poverty and enhancing equity in mixed crop-livestock systems in the Indo Gangetic basin
January 1, 2008 to November 30, 2009 (Extended to April 30, 2010)
India

Samad, M.

Review of irrigation management transfer reform in Asia
November 25, 2008 to July 31, 2009 (Extended to October 30, 2009)
Bangladesh, China

Mukherji, AditiX

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

Wastewater Irrigation in South Asia
June 1, 2005 to December 31, 2008
India, Pakistan
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Research_Impacts/Research_Themes/AgricultureWater/BMZ/index.aspx

Urban agriculture policy support in India and Ghana
April 1, 2005 to December 31, 2008
India
http://www.ruaf.org/node/448

Strategic Analysis of India's National River-Linking Project
April 1, 2007 to December 15, 2008 (Extended to May 15, 2009)
India
http://www.waterandfood.org/uploads/publication_pictures/1288848383_PN48_IWMI_Project%20Report_Aug09_approved.pdf

Groundwater Governance in Asia: Capacity Building through Action Research in the Indo-Gangetic (IGB) and Yellow River (YRB) Basins
September 1, 2005 to November 30, 2008 (Extended to March 1, 2009)
Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan

Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation in Asia (WASPA Asia)
August 1, 2007 to August 31, 2008
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/WASPA/index.htm; http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/WASPA/publications.htm; http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/WASPA/WASPAprojinfo.htm

Evans, Alex

Water Allocation in the Krishna River Basin to Improve Water Productivity in Agriculture
July 1, 2004 to July 1, 2008 (Extended to June 30, 2009)
India
http://krishna-basin.iwmi.org/default.aspx

Identifying and disseminating successful agriculture water management solutions in Africa and South Asia
January 21, 2008 to June 1, 2008 (Extended to December 31, 2008)
India, South Africa
http://awm-solutions.iwmi.org/home.aspx

Giordano, Meredith

Vietnam river system modelling for improved coastal resource management
June 1, 2004 to December 31, 2007 (Extended to January 1, 2000)
Bangladesh, VietNam

Heavy Metals (Cd, Zn) in Irrigated Agriculture in South Asia
April 1, 2005 to December 1, 2007
Thailand

Simmons, R.

Assessment and rehabilitation of tsunami impacts on groundwater and water supply in Sri Lanka
April 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007
Sri Lanka

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/

Wastewater Irrigation in Peri-urban Pakistan
January 1, 2005 to January 1, 2005
Pakistan

Irrigation Water Quality Management of the Bundala Wetland Lagoons (National Park-Sri Lanka)
April 3, 1998 to January 1, 2004
Sri Lanka

Ruhuna Basins - Sri Lanka
January 1, 1998 to January 1, 2004
Sri Lanka

Malaria in Sri Lanka - Current Knowledge on Transmission and Control (IDA/World Bank Health Services: Water Management for Malaria Control in an area of the Huruluwewa Watershed
January 1, 2000 to January 1, 2004
Sri Lanka