Evaluation of Development Projects: a Process-Centered Approach in the Outskirts of Lima, Peru.

Development cooperation projects work with people involved in processes of change and social transformation. While the main objective of the intervention is the development process itself, the project?s quality will be determined by the way of implementing it. Its success lies in the sustainability of the generated processes and the connection with them by the involved actors. The evaluation analyses both aspects. This article examines the evaluation, under a process approach, of a project on urban agriculture in Lima (Peru). The results show that the use of this approach, which combines different evaluation tools, allows the identification and analysis of the processes with the involved members, providing a better understanding of the real sustainability of the results.

El concurso del tiempo : las viviendas progresivas del PREVI-Lima

La tesis se propone estudiar y analizar críticamente las viviendas progresivas del concurso internacional de arquitectura PREVI llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Lima en los años setenta y en el que participaron, entre otros, arquitectos como Atelier 5, Aldo Van Eyck, Candilis, Josic and Woods o José Luis Íñiguez de Ozono y Vázquez de Castro. Los casi cincuenta años transcurridos desde la construcción de las propuestas nos permiten realizar una crítica de los proyectos de construcción progresiva desde el punto de vista del crecimiento de las agrupaciones, las unidades de vivienda y las tecnologías empleadas o los mecanismos de gestión. Este estudio, a su vez, nos lleva a plantear la cuestión de la posible vigencia de este tipo de realizaciones en el Perú actual y en otros entornos latinoamericanos. ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to study, analyse and evaluate critically the progressive housing projects of the international architectural competition PREVI that took place in Lima in the seventies. In this proposal were involved, among others, architects such as Atelier 5, Aldo Van Eyck, Candilis, Josic and Woods and José Luis Iñiguez de Ozoño and Vázquez de Castro. These proposals were built fifty years ago. It allows us to review these progressive projects from a new perspective and to evaluate them from the point of view of housing types and groups, innovative technologies or management strategies. In addition, this study leads us to think about the possibility of proposals like this in current Peru and other Latin American locations.