Sustaining
provision in times of state inaction
In the Peruvian squatter settlement
of Villa el Salvador in Lima, community organizations set up
health care committees and arranged loans for the provision of
water and other amenities during the initial stage of illegal
occupation when the government would not provide services.
In Nicaragua, church based
community groups designed and implemented health projects without
outside coordination because government bureaucracy was too difficult
to deal with and it wanted to exercise centralized control of
health programmes.
Source: Robinson
and White, 1997 |