Analysis of the capabilities and challenges of cultural development in South Khorasan province, using SWOT model

Experience of several decades of programming and trying to develop has shown that in countries like ours, success of development programmes cannot be possible only by importing techniques and technologies from developed countries because lack of coordination of this borrowing with the culture of the host society is followed by negative effects. On the other hand, development is a multidimensional phenomenon which requires some change in all aspects referring to man and even natural environment. Thus, cultural development is supposed to be a primary and obligatory requirement in regional development. Since South Khorasan has got an observable cultural and historical background and the need for local and regional programming and development of it cannot be helped, the present paper tries to study and analyse the capabilities and challenges cultural development is facing to in the form of strengths, weaknesses, chances, and threats by means of strategic management model –SWOT- to enhance the role of culture in the development of the province. The results showed that in South Khorasan the positive factors in the development both internally and externally, have a weight advantage over negative factors. In other words, the province has enormous potential for cultural development but this has not been realized so far. Thus, utilizing the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats in order to adjust and fix the outcome is a possible thing. Accordingly, in order to realize cultural development strategies were introduced in South Khorasan in which the Comprehensive Plan to determine future policies and programs is the first priority.