· Land Use and Land Cover Assessment
· Land Use Planning
· Resource Mapping, Monitoring and Assessment through Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
· Transboundary River Basin Management
· Natural Resources Management
· Livelihoods, Food Security and Drought Management
· Integrated Water Resources Management
· Soil and Water Conservation
· Integrated Development and Conservation Approaches
· Rangelands Ecology
· Resource Use Conflicts Management
· Human-Wildlife Conflict Management
· Rural Development Dynamics
· Conservation Agriculture
· Integrated Approaches and Methods for Rural Development Appraisal (Participatory Rural Appraisal (SDA) and Learning for Sustainability and Geographical Information System (GIS)
· Participatory Project Monitoring and Evaluation
· Stakeholder Analysis and Involvement Approaches
· Institutional Arrangements for Resource Use and Management
· Information Dissemination and Technology Transfer
· Database Development and Management
· Hydrological Modelling at basin scale
· Setting up of a Geonetcast Receiving Station
CETRAD runs a rich hydromet data and information base generated from its long term and comprehensive monitoring network in the upper Ewaso Ngiro North river basin. Most of this data is now linked through a real time transmission system and interfaced to its database as well as to some selected Water Resources Users Associations (WRUAs) in the upstream areas.