Implementing the Decentralization and Deconcentration Strategy of the Royal Government - Foundation Office Cambodia
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Implementing the Decentralization and Deconcentration Strategy of the Royal Government
General Considerations and Lessons Learned
Workshop for the Members of Parliament
At the Raffles Hotel Le Royal
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
8:00 a.m.Opening Ceremony
Speaker: H.E. Mr. Kong Sareach, Chairperson of 4th
Commission of the Senate
8.20 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. Mr. Sak Setha, Director General of
Local Administration,
Ministry of Interior
9:10 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
9:30 a.m.Coffee break
9.50 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
10:30 a.m.Autonomy rights of decentralized and deconcentrated
state organizations and their legal and substantive
limits (15 minutes + 15 minutes q + a)
Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of
Stuttgart, Germany
11:00 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 (45 minutes + 15 minutes q + a)
Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of
Stuttgart, Germany
12:00 noonLunch break
2:00 p.m.Financing public functions at different state levels
- The principle of connexitivity between decision-
making 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 (45 minutes + 15 minutes q + a)
Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of
Stuttgart, Germany
3:00 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 (40 minutes + 20 minutes q + a)
Speaker: Wolfgang Meyer, Country Representative,
Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Phnom Penh
4:00 p.m.Coffee break
4:20 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 + 10 minutes q + a)
Speaker: H. E. Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of
Stuttgart, Germany
5:00 p.m.Closing remarks
Speaker: H.E. Mr. Yim Sovann, Chairperson of 4th
Commission of the National
Assembly