ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

The Director of Audit is to establish policies for auditing activity and direct /Technical and administrative functions. Develop and execute comprehensive audit programmes to evaluate internal controls over all of the Institute’s activities; Co-ordinate audit planning and other internal audit activities, and liaises with Council’s external auditors.

Through collaboration with international scientific organization, CSIR has become the research hub that houses various scientific research organizations including;

•    Ghana Office- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

•    Africa Regional Office- The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation                         (EMBRAPA)

•    International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Alliance for a Green             Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

The CSIR is mandated to perform the following function among others:

•    To pursue the implementation of government policies on scientific research and development;
•    To advise the sector Minister on scientific and technological advance likely to be of importance to national development;
•    To encourage coordinated employment of scientific research for management, utilization and conservation of the natural resources of Ghana in the interest of development;
•    To encourage the national interest scientific and industrial research of importance for development of Agriculture, health, medicine, environment, technology and other service sectors and to this end to encourage close linkage with the productive sectors of economy;
•    To coordinate all aspects of scientific research in the country and to ensure that the Council, the research institutes of the Council and other organization engaged in research in Ghana, coordinate and cooperate in their research effort;
•    To exercise control over the research institutes and projects of the council and to have power after consultation with the Minister to create reconstitute, merge or dissolve any institute, Centre, unit or project of the council;
•    To review, monitor and periodically evaluate the work of the institutes administered by the Council in order to ensure the research being carried out by the institute directly benefits identified sectors of the economy and is within the national priorities;
•    To institute a system of contract research to ensure that research being carried out in the council is relevant and cost effective;
•    To encourage and promote the commercialization of research results;
•    To undertake or collaborate in the collation, publication and dissemination of the results to research and other useful technical information;
•    To organize and control services and facilities available to the Council and generally to manage the properties of the Council;
•   To coordinate human resource development in institute of the council and encourage the training of scientific personnel and research workers through the provision of grants and fellowships;
•    To cooperate and liaise with international and local bodies and organizations, in particular, the Universities and the private sector on matters of research; and
•    To perform such other functions as may be determined by the Minister.

The CSIR currently operates under the CSIR Act 521 of 1996. It consists of a Head Office and Thirteen (13) Research Institutes spread nationwide. Each institute has a specific mandate to generate and apply innovative technologies, which efficiently and effectively exploit science and technology in its Research and Development (R&D) activities, which cover the broad areas of Agriculture, Industry, Agro-processing, Fisheries, Forestry, Water Resources, Building and Road Construction, Environment, Health, Natural and Social Sciences. The Head Office coordinates the research and development activities of all CSIR Institutes. The Head Office of the CSIR is located at the Airport Residential Area, Accra, off the Agostino Neto Road, Council close (opposite the Chinese Embassy).

The thirteen (13) CSIR Research Institutes are headed by Directors and semi-autonomous Management Boards. The Institutes are:
•    Animal Research Institute, Accra
•    Building and Road Research Institute, Kumasi
•    Crops Research Institute, Kumasi
•    Food Research Institute, Accra
•    Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Kumasi
•    Institute of Industrial Research, Accra
•    Institute for Scientific  and Technological Information, Accra
•    Oil Palm Research Institute, Kusi- Kade
•    Plant  Genetic Resources Research Institute, Bunso
•    Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Nyankpala, Tamale
•    Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Accra
•    Soil  Research Institute, Kwadaso, Kumasi
•    Water Research Institute, Accra