"Beyond Development": A Critical Appraisal of the Emergence of Small Health Care Non-Governmental Organizations in Rural Guatemala

Abstract

In Guatemala over the last decade, the small Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) sector has grown dramatically. However, there is a critical lack of data examining the impact of this sector growth on target communities. We utilize ethnographic case studies from the Guatemalan health care sector to examine the community-side effects of health care NGO proliferation. We demonstrate how the constraints of