Provincial and local governments
Decentralization and deconcentration
Switzerland continues to support decentralization reform in Cambodia and training projects to strengthen the capacity of Interior Ministry officials
According to the Ministry of Interior, the Swiss government will continue to support the Royal Government of Cambodia in decentralization reforms as well as training and capacity-building projects for Ministry of Interior officials. ...
Decentralization in fight against illegal activities
Prime Minister Hun Manet has claimed that decentralizing power is an effective tool in the fight against illegal gambling, drugs and gangs. ...
Meas Molika
https://kiripost.com/stories/decentralization-in-fight-against-illegal-activities
Family and residence books put under commune control
The Ministry of Interior has announced that the authentication of residence books and family books will now fall under the purview of the commune instead of district administrations. A ministry press release entitled Transferring of the police chiefs in providing residence and family books dated ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/family-and-residence-books-put-under-commune-control
Healthcare management transferred to sub-national level
The government on Monday issued a sub-decree to delegate the management of healthcare provision to sub-national administrations, which will be effective as of January next year. The sub-decree was approved by Prime Minister Hun Sen last Wednesday and signed by relevant ministers including Minister of ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/healthcare-management-transferred-sub-national-level
Sub-decree to transfer health services ‘closer to the people’
The National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDD) has approved a draft sub-decree to improve the provision of health services in a quality, safe, effective and equitable manner. ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/sub-decree-transfer-health-services-closer-people
Transfer of power ‘still slow’
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said on Wednesday that the delegation of authority from national level to sub-national administrations remained slow, resulting in a lack of clarity concerning their roles and responsibilities in providing public services. Speaking at the 17th meeting of the National Committee ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/transfer-power-still-slow
Government reform policy a success
The National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDD) opened its two-day workshop on Wednesday, with attendees hailing its role in facilitating ongoing reforms in the way finances are administered and responsibilities carried out in Cambodia. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-reform-policy-success
PM: Ministers must delegate before 2020
Prime Minister Hun Sen has warned that ministers who do not delegate responsibilities to the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development by 2020 would be removed from office, said Ngan Chamroeun, the body’s secretary-general, who is also a secretary of state at the Ministry of ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-ministers-must-delegate-2020
Government’s efforts to decentralise continue
In the past two decades, the government has transferred about $2 billion to lower level administrations in an effort to decentralize.The figure was revealed yesterday during the first day of a two-day conference on decentralization on Koh Pich. ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50109838/governments-efforts-decentralise-continue/
Government hopes decentralisation boosts business registration
To promote the registration of small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft will begin early next year to decentralise the process by granting provincial government officials the authority to register businesses. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-hopes-decentralisation-boosts-business-registration
Kheng scolds senior officials for seeking to keep power centralised
In a frank rebuke of members of his own party, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng yesterday accused national leaders and ministers of impeding the process of decentralising Cambodia’s government out of a desire to maintain power for themselves. ...
Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/kheng-scolds-senior-officials-seeking-keep-power-centralised
Districts to be handed primary schools’ reins
Beginning this year, the Education Ministry will hand over management of 625 primary schools, 4,874 teachers and over 170,000 students to 14 districts in Battambang as part of a new initiative to decentralise and improve primary education. The districts will also absorb the management of ...
Kong Meta and Yesenia Amaro
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/districts-be-handed-primary-schools-reins
Departments of Forestry and Fisheries to decentralize
The Ministry of Agriculture’s departments of Forestry and Fisheries will be placed under the control of the provincial agricultural administrations, according to an official letter released by Agricultural Minister Ouk Rabun on Monday. The move is part of an effort to decentralize government responsibilities and ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21232/departments-of-forestry-and-fisheries-to-decentralize/
Hun Sen attends dinner, presentation in China
Accompanied by his wife, Bun Rany, Prime Minister Hun Sen continued his trip to China on Tuesday evening by attending a dinner reception hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to state news agency Agence Kampuchea Press. Mr. Hun Sen and his delegation of high-level officials ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-attends-dinner-presentation-in-china-59355/
Governors of Preah Sihanouk, Ratanakkiri and Pursat replaced
The governors of Preah Sihanouk, Ratanakkiri and Pursat provinces have been replaced by Royal Decree, according to officials, with the first of the transfer ceremonies being carried out Thursday morning. Sborng Sarath, the governor of Preah Sihanouk province, was replaced Thursday by Chhit Sokhom, the former ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/governors-of-preah-sihanouk-ratanakkiri-and-pursat-replaced-58415/
Gov’t: village feedback to be used for reform
Hundreds of senior government officials will be dispatched to the provinces in the coming months to gauge public opinion on reforming state institutions. Almost 800 senior officials from all ministries will begin the project on February 15, state broadcaster TVK reported yesterday, following a meeting at ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov%E2%80%99t-village-feedback-be-used-reform
Budget to share the wealth: official
The amount of money to be allocated to commune-, district- and province-level governments is slated to rise next year in accordance with the government’s long-gestating attempts at decentralising its power. Provincial- and capital-level funding will rise to about 640.8 billion riel, with 237.2 billion riel ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/budget-share-wealth-official
Hun Sen Makes More Cuts to Sok An’s Portfolio
Prime Minister Hun Sen signed off on a directive last week to transfer 11 government bodies, previously overseen by Cabinet Minister Sok An, to relevant ministries and institutions, further cutting the expansive portfolio of the deputy prime minister in the wake of July’s national election. ...
Aun Pheap and Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-makes-more-cuts-to-sok-ans-portfolio-46512/
European Union Grants $54 Million to Cambodia
The European Union yesterday pledged to support Cambodia with three grants totaling $54 million, including one payment to help bolster the country’s ability to organize its public finances, officials announced at a press conference in Phnom Penh. “The E.U. will continue to support Cambodia with ...
City-District to Manage Self Budget in 2012
The government, this year, intends to transfer it’s budget to individual town district authorities, and to vouchsafe into their hands from 2013 onward, aiming to push forward decentralization, said an interior ministry official. The budget, of on average US$ 35,000 per year, is in process of being transferred to the individual 193 town-district authorities across ...
Climate Change Affects on Livelihoods for Rural People
The Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Economy and Finance and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) collaborated to launch the 2011 Cambodia Human Development Report (CHDR) on August 30th which identifies climate change as a threat to human development gains and a source of increasing ...