Strategic planning in empowerment of informal settlements Case study: Payam - e- Noor Dezful Township

Informal settlements, as a major social, economic, physical, etc. challenge, especially in developing countries cities, are the main cause of cities in the world. Therefore, attention and strategic planning for it is a fundamental necessity Main aim in this research was strategic planning in order to informal settlements empowerment of payam – e – noor town of Dezful. The research methodology based on cognitive, descriptive – analytic & data collection method was surveyed. Its questionnaires designed by the writers Using VIKOR &SWOT models for data analysis. The statistical population consisted of experts of informal housing from; official, public& private sectors, which consisted of 60 individuals that selected in targeted samples. The results showed; low cost of households as the most important strong factor, potential of informal employments as the most important weakness factor, legalization of residential documents as the most important opportunity factor & tendency of children to drop out of education for Entering informal labor market & helping financing family as the most important threat factor. Therefore, according to final scores of internal points, could be said that in the spatial organization of Payam - e- Noor-e-Dazful, the weaknesses & strengths points are not superior to each other and both of them are moderate. There are also threats faced by the external environment for informal settlement with equal opportunities in Payam - e- Noor town of Dezful