exploring ways of acquiring sustainable funds for Dehyaries according to village's local capacities

This paper is to exploring the ways of acquiring sustainable funds for Dehyaries according to villages’ local capacities، studying their strengths and weaknesses، and planning for sustainable local income for them، and do it in the light of asset based approach and it’s social and economic elements such as social capital، participation and down–to–up management method. We chose SalimAbad (a village in Farahan city، markazi province) as case study and analyzed legal، institutional، socio-cultural and economic factors as dimensions of creating sustainable income. We obtained data from direct observations، depth interviews، group interviews and documentary study techniques، from 30 householders between 26-65 years and analyzed them with SWOT (analysis of strengths and weaknesses، opportunities and threats). Results indicate that Dehyari current income is not sustainable and even sometimes prevent rural sustainability and development، because is not repeatable and can’t guarantee the participation and activation of social capital. eywords: village، Dehyari، sustainable income، local capacity، asset based approach