Since 1989 the Bank’s Operational Directive (OD) 4.01 Environmental Assessment and its successor documents OP/BP/G 4.0 have required that affected groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) be consulted as part of the environmental assessment of projects and particularly those with potentially significant impacts (Category A). The primary purpose of this provision is to protect the interes...

Organizational diagnosis is a systematic and scientific method to identify, categorize and single out the obstacles and their impact on organizational performance through interaction between internal and external views and preparation and setting up operational plans to solve them in the organization. Providing standard products and emphasizing on the financial measures do not guarantee the sur...

background: nowadays, entrepreneurship stimulates economical development. it is the center of individual and organizational activities. since the government in developing countries participates in all areas of cultural and socioeconomic affaires, especially in health services, it is very important to change static organizations into dynamic ones. the aim of this study was to detect factors affe...

it is now more than four decades from providing and execution of iran’s first comprehensive urban plan. evaluation of this plan shows that the process of execution has not been successful. considering the literature review, field study as well as comparing the plan’s documents, it is thought that lack of coordination between the urban planning organizations, the manner of providing and executio...