Participating institutions may be a single institution in one area of a country, a group of institutions in a country, a collaborative grouping of countries and /or institutions in a region or, again, a single institution with a regional mandate. All are considered participating institutions. Participation in WOCAT at the country or regional level is referred to as a national / regional initiative.
WOCAT includes more than 60 participating institutions.
| ACT | African Conservation Tillage Network, Harare, Zimbabwe |
| ADB | Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines |
| AJZ | AJZ: Association des Jeunes de Zammour, Médenine, Tunisia |
| ARC-ISCW | Institute for Soil, Climate and Water of the Agricultural Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa |
| ASC-UPLB | Agricultural Systems Cluster, University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines |
| BSWM | Bureau of Soils and Water Management, Department of Agriculture, Quezon City, Philippines |
| CAMP Alatoo | Central Asia Mountain Programme, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan |
| CAS and MWR | Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Yangling, China |
| CDE | Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Switzerland |
| CGIAR | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Washington, USA |
| CHTDB | Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board, Bangladesh |
| CIS | Centre for International Cooperation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| CRDA | Commissariat Régional au Développement Agricole, Médenine, Tunisia |
| DESIRE | EU-project for Mitigating desertification and remediating degraded land |
| DEC | Dept. for Erosion Control, Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade University, Serbia & Montenegro |
| DERAD | Diagnostic Environnemental et Recherches Appliquées pour le Développement, Antananarivo, Madagascar |
| DoA | Department of Agriculture, Pretoria, South Africa |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome, Italy |
| FAO-LADA | Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands, Rome, Italy |
| FSWCC | Fujian Soil and Water Conservation Centre, Fuzhou, China |
| GEF | Global Environmental Facility |
| GEF OP12 | GEF Operational Program 12 Gansu Project Management Office, Lanzhou City, China |
| GI | Institute of Geoecology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
| GREAD | Group of Research, Studies and Actions for Development, Niamey, Niger |
| GTZ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, |
| GTZ-Sustainet | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Sustainet, Eschborn, Germany |
| IC-Pakistan | Intercooperation-Pakistan, Hayatabad – Peshawar, Pakistan |
| ICARDA | International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria |
| ICIMOD | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| ICRAF | International Center for Research in Agroforestry, Nairobi, Kenya |
| ICRISAT | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Niamey, Niger |
| InGeo | Institute of Geography, Ministry of Science, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| INP | Institut National de Pédologie, Dakar, Senegal |
| IRA | Institut des Régions Arides, Médenine, Tunisia |
| IRRI | International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines |
| ISRIC | ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen, The Netherlands |
| IWMI | International Water Management Institute, Pretoria, South Africa |
| KAU | Kyrgyz Agrarian University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan |
| KU | Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| MADRPM | Ministère de l’Agriculture du Développement Rural et des Pêches Maritime, Morocco |
| MoA-Ethiopia | Ministry of Agriculture, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia |
| MSEC-CACILM | National Centre of Competence in Research North-South, Switzerland |
| NCCR N-S | National Centre of Competence in Research North-South, Switzerland |
| SDC | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Bern, Switzerland |
| SSMP | Sustainable Soil Management Programme, Kathmandu, Nepal |
| SWCMC | Soil and Water Conservation Monitoring Center, MWR, Beijing, P.R. China |
| SWALIM | FAO Somalia Water and Land Information Management, Nairobi, Kenya |
| TerrAfrica | TerrAfrica – Regional Sustainable Land Management |
| TSSRI | Tajik Soil Science Research Institute, Dushanbe, Tajikistan |
| Tajik Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan | |
| UNCCD | United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn, Germany |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya |
| UNGN | UNESCO-GN Chair, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco |
| UNU-INWEH | United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada |
| WASWC | World Association of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing, P.R. China |
| WDCU | Watershed Development Coordination Unit, New Delhi, India |
| WORLP | Western Orissa Rural Livelihood Project |