Introduction: Uncontrolled urbanization has given rise to informal settlements and has placed about one billion people in urban fringes. The root of urban management inefficiency is the weakness of institutional synergy.
Purpose: This study was conducted with the aim of explaining the status of urban synergistic management in the upgrading of informal settlements in the city of Kerman.
Geographical area: This research covers four informal settlements in the city of Kerman: Sayyad Shirazi, Bani-Hashem neighborhood, Shahrak-e Sanati neighborhood, and Shahrak-e Pedar neighborhood.
Methodology: The type of research is applied, and its method is descriptive. Theoretical data were collected through the documentary method, and empirical data were collected through the survey method using a questionnaire. From the population of the four informal settlement zones of Kerman, 160 people were selected through random sampling.
Results and Discussion: The one-sample t-test showed that the means of the components of urban synergistic management (institution-building capacity, institutional participation and institutional collaboration, and institutional capacity and arrangements) are lower than the average level and are in an unfavorable condition.
Conclusion: Also, the analysis of variance showed that the status of the components of institution-building, institutional participation, and institutional collaboration is the same across the four neighborhoods; however, the status of institutional capacity and arrangements is not the same, and its mean in the Bani-Hashem neighborhood is higher than in the other neighborhoods and is in a better condition.