Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards Nearly $20 Million In Grants

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards Nearly $20 Million In Grants

The board of directors of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced that it approved $19.53 million in grants during the third quarter of 2016.

conrad.pngFor more than 25 years, the Foundation has been committed to improving access to safe drinking water in low-resource settings of Sub-Saharan Africa, Mexico and India, with investments in the water sector having been guided by global ambitions, beginning first with the call to eradicate guinea worm followed by the Millennium Development Goals' (MDGs) drinking water target.

The adoption of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) gives the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector a new global ambition to strive for – pushing for bigger and better services.

The Foundation has embraced this bold challenge with the design and release of its 2017-2021 grantmaking strategy.

Taking this into consideration, within the Safe Water program area, the Foundation will make investments in three key focus areas: 1) advancing proven and promising solutions and models, 2) strengthening water governance and in-country systems, and 3) building and disseminating credible and actionable evidence.

"We are pleased to announce another $19.53 million in funds to organizations all over the world, and are particularly excited about our new strategy for our Safe Water program," said Peter Laugharn, president and CEO of the Hilton Foundation.

"The three approaches outlined in the strategy will be applied in an integrated way within the countries where we work in sub-Saharan Africa, with the objective of accelerating the coverage of reliable access to safe and affordable water for households, health facilities and schools inBurkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Uganda."

Of the $9.5 million to support the Safe Water program area, Safe Water Network was awarded $5 million to develop a market for small water enterprises (SWEs) in Ghana.

$3 million was granted to World Vision for the purpose of demonstrating sustainable WASH services in all health care facilities in two districts in Mali. PATH was awarded $1.5 million to advance the development of a commercially viable on-site chlorine generator (SE-Flow) for drinking water treatment and infection prevention and control (IPC) in low-resource health facilities, schools and communities.

Grants in the third quarter of 2016 were awarded to a total of 17 organizations spanning across the Hilton Foundation's priority areas, including organizations serving the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people both in the U.S. and internationally.

Source: PR Newswire

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