Investigating and evaluating sustainable financing strategies for municipalities Case of study: Marvdasht Municipality

The current research was conducted with the aim of investigating and evaluating the strategies for providing sustainable financial resources in Marvdasht Municipality. In this research, along with evaluating and analyzing the revenue sources of Morvdasht municipality in a five-year period (2018-2022), introducing sustainable financial resources and evaluating the potential strategies of providing these financial resources in this municipality. The research method in this study is descriptive-survey, cross-sectional and applied. The research data were analyzed using SPSS software and in two formats, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (including: T-TEST of two independent groups, SWOT analytical model and Student's t-test). The research findings from the comparison of the average of two independent communities (administrators and researchers) on the issue of stable and unstable incomes of Marovdasht Municipality indicate a lack of mutual understanding between the two groups regarding the previous activities of the urban management system. In addition, the results of this research showed that the income from public tolls and the income from municipal funds and properties are among the stable sources of income, and donations, gifts, and assets are among the most unstable municipal incomes. Also, by evaluating the score of internal strategic factors in the form of strengths and weaknesses and evaluating the score of external strategic factors in the form of opportunities and threats, it was determined that this score is placed in the conservative strategy section.