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Institutional capacity building in neighborhood communities can be used as a tool to empower neighborhood communities to play a role in the process of urban development of the neighborhood. The purpose of this study was to identify the challenges and strategies of institutional capacity building in neighborhood communities with emphasis on the Tehran. The study was conducted in two phases. The first phase was document review. At this stage, while reviewing the theoretical literature and research background, the general framework of study questions for the second phase of the study was determined. The second phase of the study was a qualitative research with a conventional qualitative content analysis approach. Participants, who were selected by purposeful sampling method with data saturation criteria, included 20 experts in various fields related to the city and related issues. Semi-structured face-to-face interviews were used to collect data. Data analysis was performed by the proposed method of Granheim and Landman. In order to increase the credibility and quality of the results, the four criteria of Guba and Lincoln were observed. The results were categorized into 2 main categories, 13 subcategories and 284 codes. The main categories were: Challenges and barriers to institutional capacity building, capacity building strategies.Institutional capacity building as a participatory process requires empowerment of local people and communities. Properly performing this process is overcoming the challenges and obstacles of capacity building. Overcoming these barriers requires the cooperation and coordination of capacity building elements,including non-governmental organizations, government agencies, and popular activists

It is two years that the council of neighborhood confidants is developing and interacting as the supervising and consulting party of Tehran city council. In the present study the concept of cooperation is studied on the basis of Aizen and Fishbein theory, which is the theoretical body of the research. Based on the theory of aforementioned writers the affecting factors on the citizen cooperation including subjective and objective ones were identified and after designing the questionnaire the sampling process of the citizens and confidants started. The total population for citizens and confidants is 385 and 345 respectively with 0.05 as the error degree. Data gathering was done according to a field study of 5 zones in Tehran. After analyzing the data based on the Carl Person coefficient test, chi 2, this cooperative pattern was investigated. The results show that the effect of cooperative pattern on confidants is by far more than its effect on citizens. The pattern regarding the factor of intention for cooperation is more successful in providing the possibility of cooperation. Furthermore it can be claimed that confidants are more effective in instigation of internal factors of the act of cooperation than its external factors. Finally, although the confidant councils have not found their proper status among citizens, they are important in providing the ground for the cooperation of Tehrani citizens