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Upon invitation by UNICEF, an ICDP international
consultant visited Guatemala in 2006 to give informative talks and
workshops to representatives from several networks, including Creciendo
Bien, social services, education, health, Plan International and
a local university.
The UNICEF office, led by its representative Manuel
Manrique, the office of the First Lady and Plan International started
cooperation with ICDP which resulted in two training workshop for
their agents which were held during 2007. Trained were 38 facilitators
and 52 promoters, linked to Plan International, SOSEP, Secretariat
for social protection, the Institute for Social Security and SOS
Guatemala. So far 444 families received the ICDP intervention.
In addition to the workshop there were ICDP field
visits to Jalapa and Solola provinces, where local promoters and
facilitators held ICDP meetings with families and children from
nearby communities.
The evaluation of these first projects carried out
in Guatemala showed promising results.
A father interviewed in the street on his way to
the ICDP gathering said: "I am going to a very important meeting,
it is about a programme where I have experienced something I never
had as a child-to be appreciated only because I am a person; this
is what we need in our community and these guidelines in the booklet
I received need to reach not only families and children but also
the elderly in our community as they need it just as much. "
Year 2008:
Upon
UNICEF’s invitation Nicoletta Armstrong, one of the founders
of ICDP International, presented ICDP at the Second National
Conference on Early Childhood, ENPI II. The conference
formulated an Action Plan which was accepted as future
national policy for children, and was signed by the President
on the last day. After the conference an ICDP workshop was
held for agents from Plan International, Secretaria de
Bienestar Social, SOSEP, Fundazucar and several NGOs, who have
been implementing ICDP in the poorest communities around the
country. The facilitators from Plan trained 70 groups in 23
communities; they declared in their report: “We are very
motivated as in ICDP we found the answer to many problems we
are dealing with, such as dysfunctional families, violence,
inadequate education.”
Year
2009:
ICDP
trained agents from Fundazúcar applied the ICDP program in 4
departments, reaching 3700 families and 5516 children. They
included ICDP as part of their own project called "Mejores
familias". Plan International integrated ICDP into their child
protection program and used it in over 100 communities around
the country. The ICDP principles for good interaction were
used by some of the communities in their campaigns for peace.
One of the remaining challenges is to find ways of reaching
the most abusive families, who out of fear of being reported
have not yet joined the ICDP courses.
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