Feasibility study of empowerment strategy to improve informal settlements

Developed by World bank, empowerment considered as a liberal strategy for improving of informal settlements. Its feasibility in Iran would be ambiguous. Thus, the research is to study feasibility of its different dimension and  indicators to show  what dimension and indicators have more chance to be implemented in the informal settlements of Iran. Extracting the dimensions and indicators through different resources, they sorted in AHP structure questionnaire. This questionnaire were distributed among 30 elites of empowerment, housing , social and urban planning fields. The findings indicates that  out of the 6 empowerment dimensions, technological, environmental, economic, social, legal and administrative dimensions have more feasibility chance in the informal settlements of Iran. Among the indicators, making the accessibility to communication technologies, learning IT to women, interactive learning in environmental learning through first-hand experience, have more chance and reforming NGOs, NGOs development, improving surveillance on the officials have less chance to be implemented.