ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the case of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (HF) in the provision of safe water in Africa. It shows that on three aspects of the HF water program are its strategic rationale, its allocation of resources, and how it measures the results of its programs. The chapter explores how the HF allocates its Safe Water Initiative resources, and lays out the basics of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems being put in place with technical support from the University of North Carolina's Water Institute, among others. In its Annual and Special Reports the HF has asserted that it is doing good and has set out to develop M&E mechanisms to verify whether this is the case, to learn, and to guide future funding. Finally, it should be said that the HF has also shown greater interest in getting governments at all levels of the countries it focuses on involved in safe water work.
