Dr. Hans C. Komakech is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Materials, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences (MEWES) and the Centre Leader of WISE – Futures African Centre of Excellence. With a background in Civil Engineering, Water Resources Management and Wastes Engineering, Hans studies a variety of water and sanitation issues using an interdisciplinary approach and through mixed methods. His recent research projects focus on groundwater use in urban informal areas, farmer-led irrigation development, agricultural water management, and surface and groundwater governance. Hans’s earlier work focused on the emergence of collective action and local water sharing arrangements; and discussed how the interface between customary and formal rules shapes the dynamics of age-old community-based water systems. Hans past research projects include Transformation to Groundwater Sustainability project (www.t2sgroundwater.org), which studies grassroots initiatives for groundwater governance, and a variety of studies on farmer-led irrigation development in Tanzania (www.safi-research.org), Mozambique, Uganda, and Rwanda.

Current projects focus on the development of city-wide inclusive sanitation plans for five small towns in the southern part of Tanzania under the USAID funded project - MUM: Maji Na Usafi Wa Mazingira.

• Integrated Water resources Management
• GIS and Remote Sensing
• Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS For Environmental Sciences

On-going

•  MUM: Maji Na Usafi Wa Mazingira
• Establishing Centre of Excellence in Water Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy Futures (WISE – Futures)

Phased-out

• T2GS: Transformation to Groundwater Sustainability: Joint learning from human groundwater interactions (www.t2sgroundwater.org),
• SAFI: Studying African farmer-led Irrigation development in sub-Saharan Africa (www.safi-research.org).
• T-GroUP: Experimenting with practical transition groundwater management strategies for the urban poor in Sub Saharan Africa

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