Reconstruction in El Salvador: the social relations of community self-build
When the civil war in El Salvador ended in 1992, the Spanish government put forward money for a resettlement project (the ASPA project) which was designed and implemented by a Northern NGO for which the author worked as a construction adviser. The project, constructing a settlement for and with refugees returning from Honduras, faced difficulties due to a lack of local participation and the adoption of a discordant `professional' mindset in the planning and early stages of building work. The author discusses how the reconstruction process was altered to enable more effective participation and community ownership of the settlement.
Mots clés: Conflits et reconstruction post-conflit; Societé civile; Téchnologie; Amérique latine et les Caraïbes
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