Project design and development in indigenous communities: a literature review

Abstract: Project development in indigenous communities is one of the mechanisms for developing territories, economy, and culture. This article aims to review project design and development in indigenous communities from a bibliographic perspective, following the methodology proposed by Cronin et al. (2008). Published scientific papers about project design in these communities are used. Accordingly, various studies focused on analyzing projects developed in indigenous communities, from community development to socio-cultural and indigenous entrepreneurship are found. Project design in indigenous communities must be done to ensure the success of the project and the achievement of the proposed objectives through social capital, the participation of all community members, social innovation, and multigenerational understanding of the linkages among products, people, and ecosystems. In addition, the relevance of the process is acknowledged by valuing the particularities of the indigenous population, which leads to an allusion to concepts such as indigenous planning, a key element in project design. Likewise, the relevant topics for future research aimed at the conception of indigenous territories and their articulation with territorial and sustainable development are considered.


Introduction
Studies on project design in indigenous communities have gained strength in recent years, mainly because of the search for elements and factors that allow the recognition and articulation of the culture of these communities with development proposals (Yeh et al., 2021).In this context, indigenous communities mainly draw the attention of researchers as they face situations of discrimination based on ethnicity (Altman, 2001;Langton, 2013;Serrano-Barquín & Zarza-Delgado, 2013).Consequently, works with indigenous peoples have posed significant challenges in the last five years since it is necessary to consider that their ancestral activities and rituals demand that any type of intended productive activity associate cultural, social, economic and traditional aspects, to ensure long-term sustainability (Pitre-Redondo et al., 2017, p. 237).Hence, institutions are understood in this context as any human organization with durable systems of established or embedded social rules that structure social interactions (Hodgson, 2011, p. 44), which play an essential role in responding to the resistance put up by these communities and their needs.However, the struggle to reduce the existing gaps among different population sectors has achieved the recognition of various methodologies that serve, according to UNESCO (2016) and Benavides (2013), as mechanisms of competitiveness and development for indigenous communities that facilitate the understanding of their traditional practices, empower communities around their principles, and respect their worldview to maintain community relations, sovereignty, and political empowerment (Coral Guerrero, 2018;Pick et al., 2007;Benedetti, 2021), which ultimately manages to link these communities in socio-culturally mediated relationships with their capacity to act in different environments (Ahearn, 2016;Zavala Berbena & Figueiras, 2014;Rickard, 2019).In any case, this implies developing an analysis focused on the decoloniality of power, based on identifying the existence of structures of domination, exploitation, and extermination that have been reproduced over the past centuries (Garzón López, 2013;Angel Baquero et al., 2015).
Therefore, studies in recent years have focused on addressing project design in indigenous communities and their participation in organized economic processes, and on its importance in their collective, social and economic life in order to promote the improvement of their conditions and to allow them to build and consolidate communitybased production, marketing, and export projects and strategies in these contexts.In this respect, Coral Guerrero (2018) states that these strategies must be in line with the strengthening of indigenous collective work and based on solutions tailored to each community that include an emphasis on the benefit of the majority, rather than on individuality (Collins et al., 2017).However, these principles are misunderstood because they give greater relevance to cultural rather than to commercial conceptions, which affects all the phases of social projects since they imply understanding and appropriation of the indigenous worldview.
Thus, the different studies on projects in these communities do not only address a methodological guide that is comprehensive for all types of communities, which allows their members to understand and have a better performance in their projects and to be able to carry them out, but such studies are also developed within the framework of local development and address the articulation of various economic, social and political factors with the different sectors and actors of the community.However, it is worth mentioning that many of the studies show that projects for indigenous groups have focused on agriculture, handicrafts, the preservation of their culture, the improvement of the quality of life, and, more recently, tourism (Altman, 2001;Yeh et al., 2021).
Consequently, project design is a vital tool for the development of indigenous communities (Perissé, 2019;Del Sol & Ruiz, 2019;Calvache & Jiménez, 2019;Navarro Gamboa et al., 2019;Weinberg, 2019), which impacts on the objectives pursued and achieved due to its focus on reducing the existing gaps among different population sectors, and not so much on the delivery of the same products to a population with other characteristics.This idea of designing such community projects is based on global trends; according to authors such as Musavengane & Kloppers (2020); Hughes & Scheyvens (2021), and Maclean et al. (2022), it is oriented towards the growth of the participation of indigenous communities in the development of territories especially on social capital and associativity, and it recognizes the importance of external factors such as public policies and state participation (Yeh et al., 2021).
Therefore, the following question arises: how can the literature on development projects in indigenous communities be characterized?So this article presents, in an overview, a review of the literature on the design of development projects in indigenous communities.The data sources used were publications of indexed journals ranked in Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 according to SCImago Journal & Country Rank, considering the field of indigenous community development projects.The method adopted is literature review by Cronin et al. (2008).The aim is to propose possible research sources that will provide a future perspective for the study of project design for the development of indigenous communities.Cronin et al. (2008) proposed the literature review methodology to identify, evaluate, and summarize the relevant studies considered for a systemic literature review-through search in databases and prioritization of material selection and production, which is, in the end, a synthesis of the field (Creswell, 2010).The step-bystep research undertaken is presented below (Figure 1).

Selection of the review topic
The first step was to address three concepts: (a) Social projects design based on Moraima Romero & Aldana Zavala (2019), in which tasks design is used as a systematic tool to develop social transformation works.Therefore, the concept is related to diverse contexts, such as rural, indigenous, Raizal, black, and other communities that seek to impact their quality of life.(b) Indigenous projects from the perspective of indigenous communities regarding the development and life of indigenous communities, and national and territorial development plans and policies considered in these contexts.(c) Community development as a project to build a better society, based on the consolidation of values of the common good and a healthy and productive coexistence, which adds value to their community and allows them to improve their quality of life.

Literature search
The literature search was conducted mainly in Scopus, ScienceDirect, Springer, Emerald insight, SAGE Journals, and Google Scholar, by entering search terms associated with project design in indigenous communities and adjusting the parameters to delimit the results.These sources were selected because they are the most rigorous scientific and academic databases and, therefore, they have many indexed journals from different areas of knowledge that have great acceptance among researchers.
Social-project, rural-project, project design, indigenous-entrepreneurship, and indigenous-community-development descriptors were adopted in the search field on the data platforms.In contrast, the objective concerning project design in indigenous communities was defined in order to mitigate problems regarding results dispersion (Cronin et al., 2008).The titles and abstracts were used as filters in an established time criterion of the last five years.5/26

Literature collection, reading, and analysis
The searches yielded 561 publications located in more rigorous scientific databases mentioned in the previous section.The exclusion criteria established by Cronin et al. (2008) were applied.Then, duly validated scientific articles (Podsakoff et al., 2005) that contained the search expressions associated with "project design" in indigenous communities were selected.After that first exclusion, the search yielded 136 scientific articles published in journals Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 according to SCImago Journal & Country Rank, which were preliminarily collected.
Subsequently, priority was given to articles that were written in English and Spanish, in indigenous contexts, and focused on "social-project, or social, rural-project or rural projects, Social-Project-design or social projects design, indigenous-entrepreneurship or indigenous entrepreneurship, indigenous-community-development or indigenous community development."Following this procedure, 51 articles were excluded and 85 remained.Once the articles had been defined, an individualized and independent analysis was made, using the research approach as criteria for analysis method, quantitative or qualitative sample, data collection and analysis techniques results, and conclusions.Finally, the process was completed with the content analysis and systematization of the 85 articles in the NVivo software.

Social projects
From a general perspective, projects can be defined as a set of concrete, interrelated, coordinated, and sequential activities aimed at achieving a goal.These activities have a beginning, a development, and an end (Donawa Torres, 2018;Amaru, 2008;Ander-Egg, 1995).However, a social project is characterized by transforming and including possible actions to develop the allocation of resources, to define an implementation period, and to meet the specific social needs and problems of a community with the active and proactive participation of its members (Ander Egg & Aguilar, 2005;Moraima Romero & Aldana Zavala, 2019;Arias, 2012;Martínez, & Cohen, 2018).Román (1999) states that when we refer to a Social Project, we understand it as any social action, individual or group, destined to produce changes in a certain reality that involves and affects a certain social group.Therefore, a social project must define the social problem, establish impact objectives, identify beneficiaries and stakeholders, specify the location, and establish a time of execution (Martínez & Cohen, 2018;Ortiz & Sánchez, 2017).
Since design is focused on these elements for the creation of alternatives for the project, organizational factors, and the experiences of professionals, it is considered a step of great importance to solve the existing social problems, provided that the development perspectives and narratives are understood in their elaboration (Alsaid & Ambilichu, 2020;Chandra, 2018;Luna-Cabrera et al., 2020).Accordingly, it is possible to state that social projects seek to impact the quality of life of the population that requires support.Thus, social research, defined as a process to obtain new knowledge from social realities and the identification of needs and problems to be solved is developed (Mendieta Vicuña & Esparcia Pérez, 2018;Ander-Egg, 1995).
In other words, social projects are a tool that allows inducing a change from the initiatives of the actors that interact in a specific territory or sector to achieve goals and purposes.According to this, social transformation via projects implies a local management that constructs new structures of opportunities and greater spaces of freedom for the inhabitants, thus creating a favorable environment for the deployment of the potential of the territories (Baca-Tavira & Herrera-Tapia, 2016).Considering that social problems refer to the deficiencies of a given population group, that constitute a gap between the existing reality and what is genuinely desired and necessary by society (Perissé, 2019), Cohen & Martínez (2002) define a social project as the minimum unit of resource allocation, which through an integrated set of processes and activities aims to transform a part of reality, reducing or eliminating a deficit, or to solve a problem.

Community development
The concept of community development in this paper is understood from Crespo Alambarrio (2011) as a set of specific activities aimed at achieving one or more objectives, to respond to the needs, aspirations and potential of the communities, and likewise, the construction of a better society that consolidates values of the common good so that healthy and productive coexistence are advanced in these projects.That allows to analyze the dialogues processes that take place in a particular community for the strengthening and conservation of its language, economy, and customs that have been lost over time and how the participation and acceptance in society has been (Agredo Cardona, 2015).Therefore, community development intends to intervene in concrete reality, and contribute according to Almaguer et al. (2021) to the development of the territory/ies and community/ies where it operates, and impact the quality of life of the population, enhancing the capacities of the participating groups and actors and taking advantage of their resources and potential in solving the problems raised.
In this respect, community development is a process of growth and structural change of the local economy, in which at least the economic, sociocultural, political, and administrative dimensions can be identified, in which case the initiatives create a local environment favorable to production and drive development (Aghón et al., 2001).Becoming a methodical tool to develop works that contribute to the comprehensive transformation of communities, they can be addressed by community organizations or educational institutions (Moraima Romero & Aldana Zavala, 2019, p. 159).This implies, according to Garzón-Garzón (2017), that project design starts from the understanding of this territorial specificity and the legitimation of local knowledge as part of the establishment of a true dialogue, either between social actors or between cognitive frameworks.

Indigenous community projects
Projects in indigenous communities, in addition to complying with the characteristics of community development projects, must be articulated with the ethnodevelopment and life plans of the indigenous communities and the national and territorial development plans and policies (Colombia, 2016).Hence, every project in these communities must include social capital, and the ability of members to work together and develop with support organizations, to avoid project failure (Butler, 2021), which finally allows to visualize the progress during the execution of the project and to facilitate its monitoring and evaluation (FAO, 2018).
Accordingly, for Bolaños (2007), project design of indigenous communities takes advantage of the close relationship between their cultural activities and the historicity that is represented from the trajectory of their homeland to the flight of territory to the great cities.As a result, interculturality intervenes as a proposal for transformation, giving different approaches to new social rearrangements established in community movements, which join forces to develop other proposals for transformation under conditions of equality.

Overview of publications
Table 1 shows the relationship and classification of the indexed journals chosen in this study.There is evidence of a grouping of publications in scientific journals whose areas of interest are associated with social projects, community development projects, indigenous projects, and indigenous entrepreneurship.Thus, this topic review shows excellent dispersion in the scientific journals that publish about it; the Journal of Enterprising Communities with 8.2%, and the Community Development Journal, World Development, and Sustainability with 5.9%, respectively, have the highest quota of publications.Journals such as REVESCO Revista de Estudios Cooperativos, Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management, AlterNative, Espacios Journal, Tourism Management Perspectives, and Journal of Business Research have 14.1% of the total number of publications reviewed.The other journals only had one publication relevant to the topics conferred.
The number of publications on issues associated with indigenous projects design and community development projects show an apparent increase with respect to the interest of publishing in the main international scientific journals, especially in those related to administration, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and free research studies.Figure 2 shows how interest in this topic has grown in the last four years, going from 12 revised publications in 2018 to 35 publications in 2020.So far, in 2021, there are already 22 publications with increase possibilities, considering that the literature review was completed in October 2021.Similarly, Table 1 shows the searches made by journal categories.The highest incidence of journals was ranked in quartile 1 with 51.8% of the publications, followed by journals ranked in quartile 2 with 30.6%, and, finally, the journals ranked in quartiles 3 and 4 with 17.6%.Similarly, a classification was made of the articles by countries where the studies were carried out.This can be seen in Figure 3, where Mexico and New Zealand are the countries that show the greatest interest in these topics, followed by Australia and Canada.It is worth noting that in the Latin American region about 25% of the studies analyzed in this study have been carried out, in the African continent about 15%, and in Oceania 18%, being the regions with the greatest interest in researching this area of study.

Study areas
An exploration of the content of the various studies analyzed was carried out.Is the result of the first exercise to represent the 300 words with the highest frequency in these articles, which were surveyed regarding type of study, type of analysis, conclusions, scope, and similarities among the studies.Outstanding words related to the study area such as social project, community development, indigenous projects, and indigenous entrepreneurship are linked to other secondary level words, such as rural development, culture, and sustainability, which was demonstrated later in the article.The publication range of the articles consulted varies between 2018 and 2021, which evidences the growing interest in studies on project design in indigenous communities.
Complementarily, Figure 4 shows the results of the articles analyzed in terms of the similarity of the words used based on the Pearson correlation coefficient.The analysis allows grouping several similar articles when the Figure 4 is read from bottom to top.Furthermore, four main and mutually distinct groups of articles were identified.The first group (in the upper part of Figure 4) includes articles that study social projects; the second group (in the lower part of Figure 4) consists of three blocks of articles about community development, indigenous projects, and, finally, indigenous entrepreneurship.The documents were analyzed by conclusions and results, generating a reclassification of the articles in four topics of analysis from the conglomerates derived from the dendrogram.The analysis also identifies in Table 2 the diversity of fields related to the design of indigenous projects and community development, as reflected in the distance among the articles reviewed, which cover the works of Moraes et al. (2021) and Magomedova et al. (2020) who talk about risk analysis and the impact it generates on social projects, going through articles such as those by Boadu et al. (2021) and Dutta & Elers (2020) focused on culture as a determining factor to better understand and design indigenous projects, or those by Chowdhooree et al. (2020) and Moore (2021) who based their research on community participation in the planning process and attachment to their region to works by Mika et al. (2019a); MacPherson et al. ( 2021) and April & Itenge (2020) that address indigenous entrepreneurship as a central axis to establish local development projects.In addition, this work also considered the topics studied and their respective vital conclusions (Table 2).They appreciated the interest in carrying out studies on indigenous projects design to develop their communities in the last five years.

Community development projects
The first conglomerate is related to community development projects design.Studies on this topic are focused on reinforcing the importance of social capital, such as the ability to promote community resilience in the management of community resources and attachment to place in community development.Likewise, the works show that it is necessary to review the problems of indigenous communities to ensure their source of livelihood and general well-being; therefore, the projects are characterized by the participation of all members of the community in collective decisions, maintaining respect for the rights of all stakeholders and not just for those represented on the board of directors.
Another conclusion is that community development projects in indigenous communities allow communities to be empowered around indigenous principles and to respect their worldview to maintain community relations through the Minga, food sovereignty, and political empowerment that contribute to discussing proposed public policies from the periphery to the center.The planning process for any development activity must address the problem of the disaster and prioritize community concerns so that any development can promote adaptation.Thus, the processes of community participation, conflicts, and disagreements must be reported to strengthen the responsibility of the community project before the interested parties.
It is essential to establish the route for the systematization of actions that allow the use of the resources and capacities of the community in order to facilitate the configuration of social innovation processes as a condition of territorial development with a sustainable approach.Thus, local leadership is also empowered and open to alternative approaches that allow community agency.

Topic of Analysis Main conclusions Studies Indigenous Entrepreneurship
The second cluster of studies is related to designing indigenous entrepreneurship projects, whose common characteristics are using available local resources to achieve self-sufficiency and self-determination and lack of technological support.Thus, activities are carried out as the needs of the communities arise.Hence, their history is decisive to create a competitive advantage for indigenous businesses and companies through a human rights approach by empowering members and their independent businesses.Product differentiation focuses on cultural authenticity, sustainability, and fair-trade practices based on principles.An internal accreditation system for compliance with the principles as well as quality control and product traceability is being implemented so that consumers can verify the ethical credibility of the products and the brand.( 2019) However, to mobilize rural entrepreneurship, particularly indigenous entrepreneurship, issues such as agency, gender, and decoloniality must be articulated and deepened.This is to balance their cultural values and economic aspirations, which allow building and consolidating a collective and transforming identity that fits the projects.In addition, education and intercultural relations can be vital elements to indigenous position companies as an essential component to promote the economic self-determination of indigenous peoples.Indigenous entrepreneurship does not stem from the same motivations as Western entrepreneurship; it is closer to social entrepreneurship due to the socio-cultural context in which it is developed and to decision-making in community consensus.However, there is a lack of human capital and institutional capacity to suddenly transform indigenous entrepreneurship into highly sophisticated forms of organization that may seem contrary to indigenous ideologies.

Indigenous projects
The third conglomerate of studies is focused on analyzing indigenous projects; there are works on the entrepreneurial experiences of indigenous communities that are an essential key to understanding structural inequalities at different levels in social contexts and managing to design successful projects.Similarly, the discourse on the compatibility between contemporary development models and indigenous value systems is essential since most traditional societies are committed to modernity and cultural values.Therefore, the identification of similarities contributes to identifying the patterns of demand for indigenous products and building a more global profile of the consumers of these products.Similarly, studies reveal that indigenous projects must be based on a multigenerational understanding of the links between products, people, and ecosystems, to promote adaptive learning, long-term and anticipatory planning logics of indigenous peoples, the need to leave space for the indigenous agency, the importance of indigenous-led processes, and efforts from an indigenous perspective.
An indigenous project design requires an effort of decolonization, self-determination, and construction of territory, which maintains indigenous values and preferences.Thus, the leaders who design these projects can protect indigenous intellectual and cultural property through appropriate methodologies, the participation of the "right" people (socially, culturally, and politically), and debates to guarantee that research generates benefits to their communities.

Social projects
Studies that address social projects are grouped in the fourth conglomerate, considering three informative dimensions: the description, the financial aspects, and the scope of the projects.In this regard, one of the findings indicate that these projects can only be successful if the development of community clusters can attract all the resources and talents and fully participate in the community intervention plans and programs.Every time, they must be developed from the promotion and creation of processing and value addition through the convergence of existing schemes and programs.
This projects design is characterized by the facilitation offered by social relations, shared cultural values, and local knowledge, which meet specific needs that neither the market economy nor the government will meet.Therefore, such design must be reviewed through configurable stages, which offer freedom to define different elements in their drafting and structuring, which indicate that they should focus on the identification and design stages.
It is essential to analyze culture and its functions of orientation, integration of values, and normative integration.At the same time, the behavior of the various stakeholders is reviewed, and their interests are aligned.This implies analyzing the perceptions, motivations, and practices of prosocial behavior of the people involved in the project, which generate support networks.Hence, the trajectory of social leadership and the motivation for social entrepreneurship are permeated by education and attitudes towards social learning.A project will work for the result itself and to increase the motivation of the participants who can be given a choice between being needs-oriented or real means-oriented to achieve the objectives.In both cases, the relevance of risk management and the need to appropriately assign responsibilities must be understood to reduce the uncertainty that may hinder project management in general.
Source: Compiled by the authors.
One of the findings of the articles review was that project design in indigenous communities is approached from narratives, which show indigenous peoples in processes of promoting efficient and culturally competent participatory development frameworks and systems acceptable to the various local and national development organizations (Boadu et al., 2021).Additionally, most of the development projects within these communities have political motivations regarding the search for funding and social motivations with the search for an integral transformation of the communities.Studies on indigenous entrepreneurship projects show that they are the result of the empowerment of indigenous groups in society, the implementation of their ideas and goals, and the pursue to become agents of progress and change (Tretiakov et al., 2020;Vázquez Maguirre, 2020a;Castillo et al., 2020;Mrabure et al., 2018).Finally, based on studies such as those by Symeou et al. (2018) and Mrabure (2019), indigenous projects can be considered as facilitators of social relations, shared cultural values, and local knowledge that meets specific needs is a specific type of community development project because they also seek to induce change through the various actors that interact in the territory, to achieve goals and purposes.In conclusion, the design of social projects, development projects, and enterprises in

Types of studies
Finally, the typology of the studies was analyzed.Table 3 shows that there are 11 purely theoretical studies, and 57 out of the 74 empirical articles have qualitative analyses, ethnographic studies and case studies are noticeable, and there are 17 quantitative studies with predominant use of quantitative statistical and econometric techniques such as analysis of descriptive statistics.The analysis of Table 3 confirms that qualitative methodologies continue to be the most used in this type of work and population, so it would be advisable to integrate both qualitative and quantitative exercises in order to carry out more complete and more comprehensive research.Based on the results presented by diverse authors, some similarities can be identified in the approach to the different issues that show the importance of designing development projects in indigenous communities in the territories and communities.The following categories were found: community development projects, indigenous enterprises, social projects, and indigenous projects, which were analyzed according to the literature review to respond to the main objective of this article.

Implications
In this respect, the profile of those who design projects in these communities, according to Bastidas Unigarro & Bolaños Escobar (2009), should consider four aspects: knowledge, experience, aptitudes and attitudes.Because a social manager is not only born towards the permanent concern of social problems and their solution but must also be done through knowledge and experience.Thus, those who seek to enter the world of projects must acquire a set of skills that include autonomy, decision-making, responsibility, leadership, teamwork, and the need for achievement, among others.Now, competence should be understood, according to as stated by McClelland (cited by Ortiz et al., 2011), as what causes better performance at work, together with other alternative elements such as gender, ethnicity, or social class, you can measure such performance in the organizational context.

Future lines of research
Therefore, it is necessary to propose future lines of research that seek to delve deeper into the subject of indigenous communities in different territories and contexts, bringing this knowledge to society to broaden the understanding of their customs and beliefs, which are articulated with the concepts of development and that, the same time, are promoted through the policies considered in the territories (Yu, 2018).Therefore, the question that remains to be answered is: what strategic guidelines should be provided to formulate a productive inclusion policy for the indigenous population?
In accordance with that approach, the concept of indigenous planning, which is defined as decision-making by indigenous groups in a built or natural environment using their ancestral and other acquired knowledge is expected to be examined as well as the values and principles to define progress in its present and future social, cultural, environmental and economic aspirations (Porter et al., 2017).Furthermore, it is important to consider cultural revitalization to show that it is dynamic, diverse and, at times, contested, and always rooted socially and culturally (Yeh et al., 2021;Olazabal et al., 2021) and to emphasize the cultural roots of indigenous communities.In addition, the contextual view of the different processes prevails, since it should not remain in the general analysis or in the homogenization of the indigenous population (Croce, 2017) in order for it to lead to results that generate a true impact, promote actual sustainable development and, consequently, improve the quality of life of these peoples.

Conclusions
Indigenous communities have focused on rebuilding and protecting much of their ancestral culture and practices throughout history.Hence, a first conclusion is that multiple methodologies seek to be suitable for all types of communities and try to facilitate the exercise of the teams that design the projects to obtain better performance.Therefore, an appropriate project design is essential; beyond establishing the appropriate methodology, the fundamental purpose is to guarantee the success of the project and the fulfillment of the proposed objectives.Hence, it is essential to reinforce elements such as social capital, the participation of all members of the community in collective decisions, social innovation as a condition for territorial development with a sustainable approach, and the multigenerational understanding of the links among products, people, and ecosystems, which promotes adaptive learning, long-lasting and anticipatory planning logics of indigenous peoples.
The weak role of the State regarding the needs of indigenous communities (Valent et al., 2017) has led to the development of social projects by other actors, where there may be different interests; however, their contribution is recognized in order to cover the gaps left by the State, since its actions constitute vital pieces to achieve not only the design but also the practical development and closure of the projects.
The repercussions are that the communities within their space lack people who have the knowledge, experience, and appropriation of their worldview to facilitate the creation, design, and development of projects relevant to the needs of indigenous peoples.
Considering that one of the central topics in the literature review of this study is entrepreneurship, which in some way permeates other topics, it is necessary to recognize the component of social capital, since the literature shows a lower level of experience of the indigenous communities in these processes (Foley, 2012(Foley, , 2013(Foley, , 2017;;Wood & Davidson, 2011).However, an opportunity to develop a specific framework of indigenous entrepreneurship is provided.
Therefore, it is crucial to create proposals for participatory methodologies, which require an initial reflection on what community participation means.If understood marginally, as an imposition or as a simple formalism, participation can be confused with presence, and it would remain disperse and articulated around demands.This ultimately allows to see more clearly the injustices committed against the population or the communities in which projects are developed.
In conclusion, there is no correct or unique methodology to design social projects (for indigenous communities); what does exist are methodologies that, depending on the context and nature of the project, allow analyzing, organizing, and meeting those needs that arise in the indigenous population, and likewise, contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the population or community involved in the project.

Figure 1 .
Figure 1.Methodological path.Source: Compiled by the authors.

Figure 2 .
Figure 2. Number of publications per year on topics related to the research topic.Source:Compiled by the authors.

Figure 3 .
Figure 3. Number of articles/years.Source: Compiled by the authors.

Figure 4 .
Figure 4. Grouping of articles by word similarity.Source: Compiled by the authors.

Table 1 .
Number of publications by indexed journals and their respective ranking.
Source: Elaborated from the Quartiles created by SCImago Journal 2021

Table 2 .
Continued…indigenous communities have similar aims and generate a leading role for these communities by assertively implementing their actions.

Table 3 .
Type of Study and type of analysis.