ABSTRACT
Corresponding to Iran's National Document for Enabling and Regularising Informal Settlements and the situation of Bandar-Abbas, an informal settlements upgrading and enabling programme for the whole city was defined by the Urban Development and Revitalization Organization with the financial support of the World Bank in 2002. This chapter analyses the process of this project as a sample of the informal settlements upgrading programme in Iran that focused on citizen participation as a core subject at the time of the project. It presents a very brief analysis of the background characteristics of Bandar-Abbas city and the Dohezar neighbourhood and also discusses participation of the local community in the decision-making process. Reviewing the population age structure in Bandar-Abbas and migration patterns from the Hormozgan province to Bandar-Abbas city shows the high share of men in comparison to women of working age.
