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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