CONTENTS
Foreword ii
Preface v
Background vii
Catching up with people's processes vii
Acknowledgements xvii
Contents xix
Abbreviations xxi
List of Figures xxvii
List of Tables xxxiv
List of Charts xxxiv
PART I - INTRODUCTION
1. From foreign blueprints to local process-based housing: Learnings from Sri Lanka's Million Houses Programme 3
2.People's process : a brief history of realising better housing through the potential for ingen uity 13
3. Housing reconstruction for development beyond 'building back better and safer' : The European Union's contribution towards co-production with war-affected communities in Sri Lanka from 2007 to 2018 25
PART II - EVALUATING OWNER-DRIVEN HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION 59
4. Post-disaster reconstruction for the long term: Three decades of lessons learnt from South East Asia & Latin America.61
5. An evaluation of EU, Swiss and Austra lian-funded housing reconstruction programmes in Sri Lanka : Lessons learnt and the way forward for community -driven programmes 83
6. Reaping the benefits of incremental owner-driven housing: Seven years after the post­ tsunami reconstruction of Veerapagupathy village, Tamil Nadu, India {2005 -2012) 99
PART Ill- OWNER-DRIVEN APPROACH IN CONTEXT 119
7. Contextual challenges are fundamenta l: Sequencing four distinct phases in the re habilitation and reconstruction of war-affected communit ies in Sri Lanka 121
8. Building on unstable foundations? Competing claims for land and its impact on owner-driven housing in northern Sri Lanka 125
9. Making owner-driven housing work after disasters : an International Federation of the Red Cross {IFRC) perspective.135
10. Housing policy in post-conflict rehabilitation and the right to restitution: the case of S ri Lanka. 147
11. Owner-driven reconstruction where women are leaders : Cases from India, Sr i Lanka and Indonesia 159
12. Technologies of Belonging: object relations in the architecture of reconstruction 171
13. Government of India's support to post-conflict housing reconstruction in Sri Lanka : a contribution towards development. 183
14. Building people's capacities and strengthening communities while rebuilding houses: The role of the facilitator in improving the delivery system and quality of the product with war victims in Sri Lanka. 191
15. 'Pathways to permanence' through accompanied homeowner-driven approach to reconstruction : Habitat for Humanity and Wor ld Vision's programme 'Homes not Houses' in Sri Lanka (2016-2020) 205
PART IV- OWNER-DRIVEN APPROACH AND TECHNOLOGY FOR COPRODUCTION 229
16. Challenges in introducing alternative appropriate technologies in homeowner-driven housing: UN-Habitat's experience in post-emergency Sri Lanka. 231
17. Building with earth and sustainable resource management: best-practice principles for a people's material suitable for Sri Lanka. 247
18. Using compressed stabilised earth blocks: State of the art and its applications to owner-driven reconstruction in Sri Lanka 271
19. Where are all the masons trained in disaster-resilient technologies? Reflect ions from Indian experiences in capacity building of masons and building artisans. 301
20. Participatory quality assurance mechanisms in resettlement construction: Experiences of Practical Action Sri Lanka 325
PART V- OWNER-DRIVEN APPROACH AND FINANCES 343
21. Life and debt : Assessing indebtedness and socioeconomic conditions of conflict-affected housing beneficiaries in Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts 345
22. No silver bullet: Can financial counselling help reduce indebtedness? 355
23. Facilitating people's decision-making through financial counselling for housing: Experiences of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Sri Lanka 363
PART VI - OWNER-DRIVEN APPROACH AND HOUSING POLICY 375
24. Systemic interventions to support the access of rural poor to safe and sustainable housing: Awareness, action and advocacy by basin-South Asia platform for a responsive policy environment in India 377
25. Enabling environment for housing in Sri Lanka : from practice to a national policy 399
26. Balancing the scale of supply and quality of outcomes in participatory low-cost urban housing: Comparing innovations in the city of Ahmedabad, India 405
27. Reconstruction as a form of intervention: Examining the role of local institutional mechanisms in building social cohesion 421
CONCLUSIONS 439
Building, owning and belonging 441
About the authors 445