Background and objective This study aims to analyze the Network Governance of safety and disaster management in Tehran by examining the laws of the fourth development plan and emphasizing the participation of key actors, including government institutions, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and local communities using social Network analysis. Method In this study, 22 laws with 101 issues were extracted from the fourth development plan, and 47 involved organizations, including 26 internal institutions of Tehran Municipality and 21 external institutions involved in the safety and disaster management program in the areas of transportation/traffic, urban safety/worn-out fabric, cultural/social issues, and intelligentization/management improvement were evaluated. The organizations and institutions were considered as the rows and columns of the Governance Network matrix, and the number of times of cooperation between organizations and institutions was considered as the entries of cells of the matrix. The matrix of actors’ cooperation Network was analyzed based on the degree centrality, betweenness centrality, geodesic distance, density and cohesion. Results The results of the analysis of the Governance system of Tehran city showed the planners’ belief in participatory Governance for solving the safety and disaster management issues of the city. However, the participation of citizens, local communities, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector requires improvement and expansion of legal cooperation such that the lack of transparency in determining the roles, responsibilities, and powers of external institutions of Tehran Municipality, such as executive, legislative and supervisory institutions, and absence of policies for facilitating and encouraging the participation of private sector, economic institutions, universities, scientific and research centers, local communities and citizens need to be addressed by legislators and planners. They should support the Network Governance in solving disaster management issues in Tehran. Conclusion The recommendations for improving the Governance system of disaster management in Tehran for balancing the distribution of legal power among the responsible institutions and actors of Tehran’s safety and disaster management program include: Strengthening the cooperation of municipal and inter-institutional actors to solve key issues of safety and disaster management; strengthening the communication Network and continuously exploiting the capacity of academic elites and consultants; strengthening the mechanisms for the participation of citizens, non-governmental organizations and the private sector; rising awareness and strengthening citizens’ trust in safety and disaster management programs using social media, developing incentive policies to utilize the capacity and participation of knowledge-based organizations and new and creative firms in solving safety and disaster management issues; developing incentive policies for the participation of managers and employees; strengthening the legal communication of financial and economic institutions and financing projects; and transparency and accountability of responsible institutions.

Purpose: Network Governance is an analytical framework for comprehending and adjusting relations among the relevant actors so that they can face multi-faceted and complicated issues in the policy-making process and public administration. This research intends to design a model for capacity building in Network Governance. Methodology: The statistical population fell into two parts. The first part covered the qualitative administrative system with 25 academic and organizational experts in the concepts and applications of Network Governance. The purposive judgment sampling method was applied here. The second part of the population, taking up a quantitative approach, consisted of public sector managers, from among of whom 390 individuals were randomly selected. Findings: Results show that capacity building in Network Governance is achievable in the framework of such themes as formulating Network Governance policies, creating Network relations between public and private sectors and civil society, creating a participative foundation among Governance actors, enhancing administrative capacity based on Network, outsourcing government duties, and establishing Network management mechanisms. Besides, there are some causal factors as follow: changing politicians’,views,integrated government,expanding IT,citizens’,demanding orientation,contextual factors including financial, economic, political, legal, social, cultural, and technological conditions,intervening factors such as internal organizational readiness as well as external organizational readiness of private and civic sectors. The outcomes of Network Governance establishment are the prevalence of public values, flexible reaction to demands, and reduction in public services costs, specializing services, innovation and transparency. Originality: This study introduced a new design for capacity building in Network Governance, which is contingent with significant outcomes for Network Governance like the prevalence of public values Governance for both society and government. It also introduced Network Governance as a framework for public management. Implications: Considering the presented model, suggestions have been made regarding capacity building in the government in order to establish Network Governance like integration of government’, s scattered processes and developing managers in line with Network thinking.

Good Governance is a newly-introduced concept which has grown as a subject in the field of management and development literature. It has offered precise indices in managerial modification. In this paper, Good Governance goes beyond its usual sense which encompasses some characteristics of governments. Here Good Governance is considered to derive from mutual relation and interaction between government and non-governmental organizations, private sectors of military organization, influential institutes and groups being linked through media. Therefore, Good Governance is a Network of interactors (actors) in civil society which bring about improvement and development to the society.

The present study deals with designing a Network Governance model in Tehran municipality. This research is developmental in terms of purpose and descriptive-exploratory in terms of method. Interview tools were used to collect qualitative data. Participants in this study are managers and authorities of Tehran municipality, contractors and faculty members of universities with a history of working in the municipality. In order to design a Network Governance model in Tehran municipality, data-based theorization with Strauss and Corbin’ s approach has been used. According to the results of open and pivotal coding, the causal factors influencing Network Governance include the culture of participation, political powers, upstream laws, and popular organizations. In addition, effective contextual factors on Network Governance include cultural infrastructure, legal infrastructure, trust building, government support, behavioral training, team capacity, and Networking infrastructure. Interfering factors include management barriers, cultural and social barriers, and organizational barriers, strategic and legal dilemmas. Network Governance strategies include developing information channels and environmental scanning, strengthening research and development infrastructures, developing collaborative Networks for evaluating and selecting projects, outsourcing and developing citizen participation in decision making. The implications of Network Governance include economic efficiency, strategic development of urban services, and organizational effectiveness.

Introduction: The importance of speed, synergy, and efficiency in service delivery has made the Network paradigm the dominant paradigm for many government agencies, including the health care system. The purpose of the present study is to present a model of Network performance evaluation in Network Governance of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education Methods: This was a qualitative content analysis study. Semi-structured interviews with exploratory orientation were conducted with 14 experts from the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. These were selected by purposive sampling. Content validity of extracted themes was 0. 90. Reliability between the two coders was 87%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. Conclusion: In evaluating the performance of Network Governance, accountability and system stability are the most important factors. Health managers and policymakers can use the model provided in developing performance appraisal indicators.

The distressed areas and improvement of living atmosphere is one of the complex and multi-dimensional subjects in the field of urban design and management. Considering the importance of this subject, so may laws and policies have been issued by governments and policy makers; however, a significant improvement has not been observed in this filed. One of the reasons for the lack of development is the multi expertise nature of the regeneration programs and the diversity of projects along with the different stakeholders from private and governmental institutions that need complex coordinating plans. In the other words, the regeneration of deteriorated areas has the attitudes of a program, which a Network of stakeholders have essential roles in its achievements and one of the important issues for reaching the end points of the program is Governance of these stakeholders. Therefore, recognizing the structure of the stakeholder Networks’ Governance and criticizing it can lead to the success of these programs. As one of the most important aspects of the regeneration programs’ Governance is the collaboration between nodes, this article has quantified the degree of the collaboration between nodes of the stakeholders’ Network of Tehran regeneration program by using the focus group method. Then the results have been used as the date for Social Network Analysis (SNA) method which is a great program for analyzing the different aspects of the Networks. Then by using SNA, the degree of collaboration of Tehran regeneration program’s Governance Network is identified and is compared to the ideal form of collaborative Governance structure introduced in the literature to make some suggestion for making the improvements.