Details

General Considerations and Lessons Learned

Workshop for the Members of the NCDD

At the Raffles Hotel Le Royal

Draft Program

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

8.00 a.m.

Arrival of H.E. Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior

Opening Remark by Mr. Wolfgang Meyer, Country representative of KAF

Opening speech by H.E. Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior

8.30 a.m.

Information about the progress in implementing the Decentralization and Deconcentration Policy of the Royal Government (30 minutes + 20 minutes q + a)

Speaker: H.E. Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior

9.20 a.m.

Introduction: Reasons for decentralization and deconcentration and the concept of an optimal size of government units for the successful assumption of public tasks (10 minutes + 10 minutes q + a)

Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, Germany

9.40 a.m.

Coffee break

10.00 a.m.

Centralized and Decentralized Structures of the States

• Central government and deconcentrated state organizations at province, district and commune levels
• Autonomous provincial government and deconcentrated province organizations
• District and commune government (20 minutes + 20 minutes q + a)

Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, Germany

10.40 a.m.

Functions at different hierarchical levels of the state

• Principles of assigning particular functions to specific levels
• Examples of specific functions and their optimal levels off decision-making and administrative implementation (30 minutes + 15 minutes q + a)

Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, Germany

11.35 a.m.

Autonomy rights of decentralized and deconcentrated state organizations and their legal and substantive limits (15 minutes + 10 minutes q + a)

Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, Germany

12.00 noon

Lunch break

1.30 p.m.

Financing public functions at different state levels

• The principle of connexitivity between decision-making, implementation and funding obligations
• Suitable own revenues at different state levels and shared sources of income
• Pros and cons of shared funding obligations for public functions assumed by decentralized state organizations (30 minutes + 15 minutes q + a)

Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, Germany

2.15 p.m.

The One Window Service Project in Battambang and Siem

Reap Districts–A pilot to implement the Decentralization and Deconcentration Strategy of the Royal Government (30 minutes + 15 minutes q + a)

Speaker: Ruth Gruber, Project Director, Asia Urbs 3 Project in Battambang and Siem Reap Districts, Phnom Penh

3.00 p.m.

Coffee break

3.20 p.m.

Legal basis for the organization of a decentralized and deconcentrated state

• Constitution
• Province constitution or organic laws
• District and commune constitutions or organic laws
• Specific laws stipulating the organization, tasks, finances and other resources of decentralized state organizations
• Limits of ordinances and executive orders for the legal organization of sub national government (30 minutes + 30 minutes q + a)

Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, Germany

4.20 p.m.

Typical lines of diverging interests in Decentralisation and Deconcentration policies and appropriate means of consensus building (20 minutes and 20 minutes q + a)

Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, Germany

5:00 p.m.

Closing remarks

H.E. Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior