Methodology for the appropriation of basic sanitation technologies in native communities/ Methodologie pour une appropriation des technologies d'assainissement de base dans les communautes natives/Metodologia para la apropiacion de tecnologias de saneamiento basico en comunidades indigenas

Nowadays, the access to public housing services in a meaningful part of our society has been restricted. In addition, projects that may have the resources to be implemented in small communities, rural areas, or ethnic locations, are usually wasted. This situation occurs because these kinds of communities are victims of implementation methodologies that seek an appropriation through a misinterpreted participatory-communitarian management. The community of the Ticuna, from the indigenous reserve called Nazareth, located in the Amazon region, is leading a process of implementation of basic sanitation technologies. This implementation has changed popular schemes and achieved true ownership, taking into account the social representations that its members have towards technologies as well as regarding the most basic questions about the detection of basic needs within their culture and customs. From this experience and experts analysis from different fields of knowledge, the methodology that aims to involve all human, environmental, technical, social, economic, political and strategic variables--related to basic sanitation projects in native communities--takes place. Key words author: basic sanitary technologies, implementation methodology, native communities, appropriation of technologies. Key words descriptor: Ethnodevelopment, symbolic interactionism, environmental management, public services, popular participation. En la actualidad, una parte importante de nuestra sociedad, vive excluida del acceso a los servicios publicos domiciliarios; adicionalmente, los proyectos que pueden contar con recursos para ser implementados en las comunidades pequenas, rurales, o en localidades donde viven etnias, la mayoria de las veces son desperdiciados, siendo victimas de metodologias de implementacion equivocas que pretenden una apropiacion mediante la gestion comunitaria participativa malinterpretada. La comunidad Ticuna del Resguardo Nazareth, en el Amazonas, es protagonista de un proceso de implementacion de tecnologias de saneamiento basico, que ha logrado romper con los esquemas populares y lograr una verdadera apropiacion teniendo en cuenta las representaciones sociales que sus integrantes se hacen frente a las tecnologias y frente a los cuestionamientos mas basicos de deteccion de necesidades basicas frente a su cultura y costumbres. De esta experiencia y del analisis de expertos de diferentes areas del conocimiento, surge una metodologia que pretende involucrar todas