Summary
This paper describes
the Urban Basic Services Programme that UNICEF's Guatemala Officedeveloped
in Guatemala City between 1984 and 1993. Working initially with other NGOs
and subsequently with government agencies, the programme developed a variety
of community based, community directed programmes for water, sanitation
and drainage, housing improvement, health promotion, health care and child
development in the illegal or informal settlements in which close to half
of Guatemala City's population live. The programme included an innovative
network of health promoters elected from their own community and new models
of community based day care.
