President Nominee on GIMPA Governing Council
WACWISA-UDS receives International Water Association (IWA) Membership during Water and Development Congress and Exhibition at Kigali, Rwanda
Female Youth engaged in a 3 – day practical training in greenhouse vegetable crop production in its Greenhouse Facilities located at the WACWISA Farms, Nyankpala Campus
The Director of WACWISA-UDS, supporting organisers and winners of WACWISA Technology and Innovation Challenge Fund, 2024
Mr. Hassan Kotey, studying MPhil Molecular Medicine is the overall winner in the maiden edition competition “My Thesis in 180 seconds” during IRAD 2024. Other contestants congratulating him.
Ing. Prof. Felix K. Abagale, Director of WACWISA-UDS and Prof. Elliot Haruna Alhassan, Pro-Vice Chancellor of UDS leading the WACWISA team in the ongoing 11th Regional Workshop of the ACE Impact Project in Mauritius. Over 400 participants are attending the regional workshop.
Laboratory Equipment Available at WACWISA-UDS
Laqua Horiba WQ 330 Multiparameter, Lovibond BD 600 BOD Analyser, Aqualitic AL 125 COD Analyser, Hdrotest HT 1000 T20, Shimazu TOC Analyser, Flame Photometer, VELP EMA 502 Elemental Micro Analyser, HACH UV/VIS Spectrophotometer DR 6000 Mufle Furnice, Oven, Konic HRGC 5000 C GC-MS, Electronic microscope with Camera, C4-MKII Multi-Purpose Teaching Flume, Water Distiller
Contact:
Email: wacwisa@uds.edu.gh
Phone: 0372099728/0247425994
Laqua Horiba WQ 330 Multiparameter, Lovibond BD 600 BOD Analyser, Aqualitic AL 125 COD Analyser, Hdrotest HT 1000 T20, Shimazu TOC Analyser, Flame Photometer, VELP EMA 502 Elemental Micro Analyser, HACH UV/VIS Spectrophotometer DR 6000 Mufle Furnice, Oven, Konic HRGC 5000 C GC-MS, Electronic microscope with Camera, C4-MKII Multi-Purpose Teaching Flume, Water Distiller
Contact:
Email: wacwisa@uds.edu.gh
Phone: 0372099728/0247425994
Open and Greenhouse Field Trial, Experimental and Demonstration Site Facilities at WACWISA-UDS
Greenhouse facility- An installed fertigation system with six lateral and six check valves, Shade-net, Weather Station, A portable electrical conductivity (EC) meter, A portable pH meter, A portable NO3 meter, An installed fertigation system with 36 lateral and 36 check valves, Soil/Soilless media sensor.
Contact:
Email: wacwisa@uds.edu.gh
Phone: 0372099728/0246143825
Greenhouse facility- An installed fertigation system with six lateral and six check valves, Shade-net, Weather Station, A portable electrical conductivity (EC) meter, A portable pH meter, A portable NO3 meter, An installed fertigation system with 36 lateral and 36 check valves, Soil/Soilless media sensor.
Contact:
Email: wacwisa@uds.edu.gh
Phone: 0372099728/0246143825
WORLD HUNGER DAY 2025
STATEMENT
this World Hunger Day Wednesday, May 28, 2025, the West African Centre for Water, Irrigation and Sustainable Agriculture (WACWISA) joins hands with global and local partners to reflect on the urgent need to eliminate hunger and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger.
STATEMENT
this World Hunger Day Wednesday, May 28, 2025, the West African Centre for Water, Irrigation and Sustainable Agriculture (WACWISA) joins hands with global and local partners to reflect on the urgent need to eliminate hunger and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger.
Director of WACWISA-UDS Appointed as Governing Council Member of GIMPA
WACWISA students in a pose with AAU Officials after interactions at the Centre
WACWISA-UDS is implementing Technology Transfer of Improved Roaster for Shea Butter Processing in Northern Ghana in Collaboration With UNIDO And With Funding From the EU. Other Partners on The Project Include WACOMP Ghana and Ministry of Trade, Ghana.
The Centre Leader, Prof. Felix K. Abagale, and staff at WACWISA Laboratory
Our Research Focus
Water Resource management
Irrigation & drainage systems
Sustainable Agriculture
Climate Change
Food & nutrition security
News & Events
Our Core Values
Quality & Excellence
Quality will be a hallmark of research and academic trainings at WACWISA whilst striving for excellence in delivery of training modules and research needs.
Unity in Diversity
WACWISA will have a cultural diversity of trainers and trainees including staff, students, scientist, administrators and partners who will work jointly with the highest level of oneness in harnessing the various skills, talents and resources to achieve desired outcomes.
Diligence & Integrity
Diligence in ensuring the achievement of the most desirous results as well as demanding and maintaining the highest level of ethical and professional standards of all the players in its activities and members is utmost.
Quality & Excellence
Quality will be a hallmark of research and academic trainings at WACWISA whilst striving for excellence in delivery of training modules and research needs.
Unity in Diversity
WACWISA will have a cultural diversity of trainers and trainees including staff, students, scientist, administrators and partners who will work jointly with the highest level of oneness in harnessing the various skills, talents and resources to achieve desired outcomes.
Diligence & Integrity
Diligence in ensuring the achievement of the most desirous results as well as demanding and maintaining the highest level of ethical and professional standards of all the players in its activities and members is utmost.
Quality & Excellence
Quality will be a hallmark of research and academic trainings at WACWISA whilst striving for excellence in delivery of training modules and research needs.
Unity in Diversity
WACWISA will have a cultural diversity of trainers and trainees including staff, students, scientist, administrators and partners who will work jointly with the highest level of oneness in harnessing the various skills, talents and resources to achieve desired outcomes.
Diligence & Integrity
Diligence in ensuring the achievement of the most desirous results as well as demanding and maintaining the highest level of ethical and professional standards of all the players in its activities and members is utmost.
Our core Values
Quality and Excellence
Quality will be a hallmark of research and academic trainings at WACWISA whilst striving for excellence in delivery of training modules and research needs.
Unity in Diversity
WACWISA will have a cultural diversity of trainers and trainees including staff, students, scientist, administrators and partners who will work jointly with the highest level of oneness in harnessing the various skills, talents and resources to achieve desired outcomes.
Diligence and Integrity
Diligence in ensuring the achievement of the most desirous results as well as demanding and maintaining the highest level of ethical and professional standards of all the players in its activities and members is utmost.
We collaborate with regional and international partners on industrial and research projects
Financed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, CRES aims to improve and diversify local income potentials in Ghana and Burkina Faso through a selection of best varieties of native tree species, value-added products and innovative marketing (Click for more information from Project website)
Climate Resilience Accross the Rural-Urban Continiuum (RURBAN CLIMATE)
Projected and existing severe impacts of climate change in West Africa’s Sahel interact with high population growth and livelihood insecurity and fragility. The resulting increased mobility and rapid urbanisation further challenge local governments’ capacity to provide basic infrastructure and services whilst protecting local ecosystems. (Click for more information from Project website)
Transformative Environmental Monitoring to Boost Observations in Africa (TEMBO Africa).
In TEMBO Africa, there is a tight coupling between in-situ observations, satellite data, and numerical models to ensure that the advantages of each approach enhance each other.
In partnership with fourteen (14) other organisations, WACWISA-UDS is leading Farming Systems Needs Evaluation and Definition of Agroecological Strategies and Techniques on the CIRAWA Project.
GIZ Solar Powered Irrigation System (GIZ-SPIS) Project implemented by WACWISA-UDS seeks to develop curriculum and build capacity of industry practitioners in the use and maintenance of solar powered irrigation systems in enhancing food security and adaptation to climate change.
The project Water ESSENCE Africa, running from 2021 to 2026, is addressing the challenges related to freshwater and its uneven distribution, with the situation being more challenging with the increasing population and urbanisation, making water use unsustainable.
Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA)
Fertiliser Research Responsible and Responsible Implementation (FERARI) Project for Sandwich PhD
FERARI was a public-private program in Ghana that integrated an on-the-ground implementation program to develop the fertilizer value chain with transdisciplinary research by Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers, supervised by internationally renowned universities, and to build the research capacity at the involved institutions.
Clear Climate Project
Clear Climate is aimed to create an International, Interdisciplinary, and Intersectoral (“3-i”) for creative scholars with strong theoretical and practical skills, needed to tackle the major challenges of the Climate Information Services (CIS) development.
SAFE 4 All Project
SAFE 4 All aims to harness the EU climate services landscape and leverage it with local knowledge from African case studies to co-create information and facilities its uptake at the local to district and regional levels
Climate-Smart Agropreneurship Education for Jobs and Sustainability in Western Africa
The main specific objectives of the project include:
- Revised climate-smart, competence-based entrepreneurship curricula
- Improved student-centred teaching and learning methods by capacitating the faculty and the staff in problem-based learning , climate-smart agriculture and innovative entrepreneurship education
- Created a collaborative learning ecosystem with academia and industry /societal partners
- Students benefitted from the PBL-teaching methods and participated to the contextualised PBL methodology development
- Strengthened HEI capacity to further contextualise and develop curricula, pedagogical methodology and learning ecosystems through national and international partnerships
Our Partners
